Various Notices'. 
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tlce of the cultivation of Smyrna Madder in this country, by Mr 
Spencer Smith ; and also that the seeds had propagated the plant 
with exfierimental succes^^ in the Botanical Garden at Sloane-street. 
--—JEditor of Como Magf 
For further information as to the method of cultivating madder, 
I refer to Arthur Young’s aceoUnt of Mr. Arbuthnot’s madder 
plantation, and (not the article madder alone but) to the articles 
rnadd^r^ in Rees’s Encyclopaedia, particularly the last article enti- 
tled Madder, Rubia tinctorum. They are neither of them very 
good, but I know no better, I will send to Harmony for the prac- 
tice there. 
In England, the v/hole supply of weld for the finer tints of per- 
manent yellow, is from Yorkshire. Weld gives a brighter colour 
than the inner bark of the black-oak, or Quercetron of Dr. Ban- 
croft. Can there be any difficulty whatever in growing Weld here ? 
T. C. 
« Wines of Sf lain and Portugal.’— Hihe wines of Spain are of twe? 
descriptions, namely, white and red, and are, foT the most part, ex« 
cellent. The greatest quantity of wine is made in the southern 
parts of the kingdom, and the sale of the article is very extensive, 
especially among the English and the Dutch. The wines of the 
Canaries, although not of actual Spanish growth, are to be met 
with in most of the ports of Spain, and are usually classed with 
the wines of that country. Although the whole of the Canaries 
produce excellent wines, the preference is given to those of Palma 
and Teneriffco The Dutch and the English, carry on the most 
extensive traffic in the wines of these two islands, the latter annu- 
ally taking off no less than 16,000 tons of wine ; part of which they 
destine for the northern ports and part for England, Many other 
nations are engaged in an inferior degree in this traffic. When 
the vintage proves favourable, Teneriffe annually makes Up about 
30,000 pipes of Vidonia, or, as it is sometimes denominated, Bas^ 
tard Madeira., from the similarity of its flavour and appearance to 
the dry wine of the last mentioned island. Teneriffe also pro- 
duces a sweet wine, which comes very near Malmsey Madeira % 
this is sold in the island at about lU. though sometimes as high 
as 20/. perpipej and the Vidonia at 10/. and upwards. The duty 
paid at the port of London on Teneriffe wines is 107 /. IL. per ton, 
and the market price of Vidonia at present (duty included) is 
from 70 /. to 85 /. per pipe, ( 1808 .). 
“ The wine of Chacoli, ih Biscay, is not of a first rate quality. 
order to produce this wine the Biscayans ingraft five or sik 
