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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    nected with their business, and had his trouble often many times repaid with the useful wrinkles, de nyttiga rön, he gained. As agriculture has so near a connection with horticulture, Trägårds väsendet, therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy, landthushållningen, particularly in the cultivation of ploughed lands. Thence it comes that he is still reckoned as the greatest theo- reticus in England. After he had thus travelled through England, he started on his foreign traveis, and then explored Flanders and Holland, because he knew that there were also great horticulturists there, and that the Science of the manage- ment of ornamental and kitchen gardens had there reached a high pitch of excellence. Whether he, besides the aforenamed lands, also explored other districts, I have not understood, but from the foregoing it can be seen [T. I. p. 460] that no nurseryman has so much advantaged himself in learning both the theorie and practique of his business. After his return home he devoted much time in practising all that he had known before, and that he learned upon his traveis. Hereupon he afterwards published his Gardeners' Dictionary in Folio, in which he describes in detail the cultivation of all sorts of plants, those which belong to kitchen gardens, as well as those which are cultivated in academical and medi- cinal gardens, with numerous other useful notes. Some time after that there also appeared the 2nd volume, in which he completes the work by the account of the cultivation of plants omitted in the first volume; but as this large work was dear enough, he shortly after made an abstract of it, in which he excluded all philosophical and other curieusa passages, and introduced only that which particularly belongs to a nurseryman’s business, so that nothing on that subject is omitted. The large
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