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

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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$Blackberry-bushes, grew here and there especially in the hedges, gärdesgårdar. The stalks were often 18 feet long and more. They did not stand erect, but when they had grown about a fathom in height they curved down to the ground, and afterwards crept along it. It was not good to get along where these grew abundantly, on account of their long thorns. In the hedges they were not so uneven. The leaves were fallen off most of them, but on some few they were still remaining. Hedera \_H. Helix, 190], called by the Englishmen Ivy, grew on a great many of the trees, up which it had clambered. In particular, it had taken up its abode in the crown which had been formed after carpinus (horn- beam) beech, and oak, had been polled, but the stalk went from the crown close to the tree down to the ground. It had green, fresh, and beautiful leaves. Spartium, 589 [S. Scoparium, now Cytisus Scoparius] Broom, grew here and there on the borders of the woods. Ruscus C. B. [R. Aculeatus] Butcher's Broom, grew in some places in the woods, but was quite small. The leaves fresh and green ; it had also remained in flower the whole winter, and flowers were now beginning to expand. The leaves ended in a spine, en tagg. The plant was pretty to have at the borders of garden beds, where box, buxbom, is now otherwise used. Daphne, Linn. Hort. Ups. 94, [D. Laureola] Spurge L aur el, grew here and there in the wood, though in few places. [T. I. p. 151]. The climate of England is quite different from that of Sweden, which the inhabitants ascribe partly to the more southerly position of the country, partly and principally to the surrounding ocean. The ground was here everywhere now quite green and bare of snow, except that some still remained near a few hedges, gärdesgård, which was left from the$