1800. ] 
But the painter Von Moll, and Doétor 
Stupicz, had feparated themfelves from 
their afiociates. 
By command of the emperor, Mr. Brede- 
meyer again fet out from Vienna, accom- 
panied by Schiicht another gardener, to- 
wards the end of 1784, to rejoin Mr. 
Marter in the Weft-Indies. They tra- 
velled over feveral of the larger iflands, 
and a part of the continent, as far as the 
mouth of the Oronoco. In 1788, they 
returned with many rare and new plants, 
by way of Amfterdam to Vienna. Mr. 
Marter himfelf arrived at. the capital of 
Auftria with a number of plants, having 
paffed through London and Bruffels. 
The emperor had not forgotten the lofs 
ef the plants and feeds, from the Ife de 
France ; and therefore fent Mr. Boor, and 
the gardner Scholl, to that ifland. ‘They 
arrived on board.a Dutch fhip at the Cape 
of Good Hope, where Mr. Boor remained 
till :787, and thence failed alone to the 
ifles of France and Bourbon. In January 
1788, he returned to the Cape with 280 
boxes of rare plants, and arrived in Vienna 
on the 2oth of July in theiame year, with 
a great collection of magnificent, exotics. 
But as there was not room in the fhip for 
all the boxes, a part was left with Scholl. 
at the Cape. Nor has it yet been found 
poffible, to tranfport thefe and other living 
plants from the Cape, where Scholl {till 
refides, and from time to time tranf- 
mits bulbs and feeds. Befides thefe con- 
fiderable acquifitions, the number of plants 
was increafed by many other means, efpe- 
cially by the order which Jofeph II. gave 
to purchafe all the rare plants, at the fale 
of M. Schwenk’s garden at the Hague; 
and by the zeal of the younger Jacquin, 
who, during his travels through the 
greateft part of Europe, fent many ex- 
etics, which he found in other gardens. 
By command of Jofeph II. the hot- 
houfes were enlarged, and feveral new 
ones added. ‘Yo bring the gardener 
Scholl with his plants from the Cape to 
Vienna, the Emperor Leopold fent out 
on a botanical expedition, the gardeners 
Bredemeyer and the younger Van der 
Schot, fon of him who accompanied Jac- 
quin to the Weft Indies. »They were to 
fzil dire€tly for the Ifle of France, where 
Céré had already colle&ted feveral plants 
for the Imperial garden ; and, after taking 
thefe on board, to touch atthe Cape in their 
voyage homeward. But the captain on 
board of whofe fhip they embarked, landed 
at Malaga; and they foon perceived, that 
he had evil defigns againft them: and 
Batanic Garden, Schanbrunn. 
529 
were therefore under the neceffity of re- 
a Nee ip islet 
turning without effccting their purpofe. 
After the death of Leopold, the prefent 
Emperor Francis II, ordered a new hot- 
houfe, 235 feet long, to be erected, for 
the reception of plants from the Cape.— 
And, befides, a diftinét garden, under 
the infpection of Dr. Hoft, has been laid 
out, in which all the plants that are na- 
tives of the Auftrian dominions are cul- 
tivated with greateft care. 
From the above extraét, in which only 
the moft intereftine particulars relative to 
the garden at Schonbrunn are inferted, it 
appears that all the fovereigns of Auftria, 
from Francis the Firft down to the prefent 
day, have zealoufly contributed to the 
promotion of natural hiftory, and parti- 
eularly botany: fo that we cannot be al- 
tonifhed at the rich harveft that has ac- 
crued to that {cience, from the fucceffive 
exertions of fuch powerful patrons. 
Ee 
Zo the Editor of the #lonthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
LTHOUGH in every Number of 
A your interefting mifcellany, you fa- 
vour the public with a general {ummary of 
agricultural operations throughout the na- 
tion, perhaps it would not be unacceptable, 
if your correfpondents in different diftricts 
were to furnifh you with fome more par- 
ticular details at the end of thofe impor- 
tant feafons,—the feed and harveft times. 
Such details, if communicated by obtery - 
ing and intelligent farmers, could not fail 
of leading to important obfervations and 
improvements, or, at leaft, to a more com- 
plete and fatistaétory knowledge of the 
ftate of hufbandry, and the profpects of ap- 
proaching fcarcity or abundance. It 1s 
for this reafon, the fowing of {pring-cora 
being -pretty nearly concluded in this 
neighbourhood, that I trouble you with a 
few oblervations upon that fubjed&t. Imuft 
premife, however, that they are the obfer- 
vations only of a tyro, whofe attention has 
been practically turned to the bufinefs of 
farming but fora very fhort time. 
The firft circumftance that lies obvious 
to remark is, that the barley in general 
has been committed to the ground fome- 
what later in the feafon than is deemed 
expedient in thefe parts; although our 
peas and oats were moftly fown in pretty 
good time, and thofe few of our farmers 
who have the diligence to ufe a good {fea- 
fon when it prefents itfelf, had got moft of - 
the other parts of their bufinefs in a tole- 
rable ftate of forwardnefs. 
This tardy fowing is attributable to fe- 
yeraa 
