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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    book is printed in Folio, the latter in 8vo. His great Gardeners’ Dictionary in Folio was some time back, in the summer of 1752, republished with many corrections and additions, after it had first been translated and printed in several languages. As regards the common opinion of Miller’s Gardeners’ Dictionary, I have asked several of the greatest and best horticulturists both in England and America, what author and what book they had found and believed to be the best in Horticulture, not only as regards a number of rare plants, but in particular those which are planted for the kitchen and Fabriquer, both trees and plants. They have all answered with one mouth, Miller’s Gardeners’ Dictionary, either in Folio, or the abstract in 8vo., was the best of all, and that when one has it, no other book is afterwards required, because there is found in it everything that is in the others, and much more besides, and that both more clearly and better worked out than in any other, although the others often have manifold more words. The same answer I have also got from several distinguished persons who had them- selves had a particular pleasure in planting trees and plants with their own hands. If any of the Lords and the great Herrar in England wished to lay out a new garden, orto remake an old one, Mr. Millerwould always show them how it ought to be done. When the greatest lords diove out to their estates, he often drove out with them in the same carriage, i samma vagn. In a word, the piincipal people in the land set a particular value on this man.
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