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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    cauliflower plants were set, three or four under each bell- glass. Besides the afore-named beds, there were liere long asparagus beds. Their height above the ground was two feet. They had at the sides, either boards, or only straw. On the top they were similarly covered with glass, matting, and straw, which had just been all taken off at mid-day. The Asparagus under them was one inch [T. I. p. 146] high, and considerably thick. On the field stood a number of bell-glasses with Asparagus under. All these bell-glasses had not any straw, matting, or any- thing else over them on account of the cold and snow, but stood quite bare. They were all of one piece. Rädisorne. The Radishes were also sown in beds, which nearly lay horizontal with the ground. In the snowy weather they had been covered over only with a mat, which was taken off at mid-day. They had now begun to come up. For shelter against the north wind, there were set up by some beds on the field, small fences, hägnader, of reeds arranged perpendicularly, and of about 2 inches thickness. [Kalm was at Woodford from 28 Feb. to 16 Mar.] [T. I. p. 166.] The 16th March, 1748. In the morning I went in to London from Woodford, to get certain information as to how soon any ship would go from thence to America. Husens byggnad. The construction of houses. At all the places I passed through in Essex, brick houses were used, brukades Stenhus. They were all built of brick, tegel, but in some of the farm houses the brick- work was built between crossbeams of wood, var teglet muradt emellan Kor s-verk af trä, which were erected botli ad angulos rectos et acutos. Some out-houses only, such as Lador och Logar, ‘ lathes ’ and ‘ lodges,’ to thrash corn in, horse-stables,häst-stall, etc., were so far of wood,that
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