Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    everywhere stood up to my waist, when I went in the meadows, and was so thick that there could never be any thicker. Bromus, 52 [“var. secalini”], Alopecurus, 52 [A. pratensis], Poa 78 [P. Pratensis], which had now begun to stick themselves up in abundance, made at this time all the beautiful grass-growth that was found here. The meadows were very even and smooth, jämna och Släta, with not a single hillock, tufva, on them. The grass was cut off as near the ground as the scythe could go, so that there were scarcely inches of stub, stubbe, left remaining. When the grass was newly mown, the stub near the ground was nearly white, which was caused by the grass growing so very thick. Also the lower part of the new-mown hay was quite white for the same reason. On account of the luxuriant and thick grass-growth the mower could not progress at each stroke of the scythe, lie-tag, farther than a short 6 inches, for the grass was so thick that he was not able to drive his strokes farther in, at han ej orkade taga djupare in i sänder. It has been often mentioned above that all these meadows are manured once a year with the choicest manure. [T. I. p. 468.] The 24th Jtcne, 1748. Angs-bruket i Middlesex. Use of the Meadows in Middlesex. Mr. P. Collinson related to me an account of the trade föd-krok, and livelihood, närings-medel, which the farmers, inhabitants of Middlesex, practise, specially on the side on which Hampstead lies, and beyond or north of that. It consists in this, that the farmers or Landtmännerna there lay out all the ground and land which they have, only and solely as meadow, without themselves having any ploughed land, or feeding any cattle, excepting some few horses, which they require for G
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