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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    kitchen and flower market gardens, för köks och blomster kryddgården, so as to provide themselves with seed, which they afterwards sell, and make their living out of that alone. Other gardeners, trägårds mästare, only make it their business to keep träscbolor, or nurseries, in which they have all kinds of young trees to sell, and so forth, so that it often happens, for example, that one of the gardeners who has only laid himself out for tree-planting, has not sown vegetables in his garden. Amongst those who exclusively devoted themselves to sowing all kinds of plants for the purpose of getting their seeds for sale, was Mr. Gordon, who had before been gardener to the famous Sherard. While I was in his market garden I noticed that the earth and mould, which he mostly used for his plants, was meagre enough in comparison with what is generally used in a kitchen garden, köks-krydd-gård. This was that the plants might not shoot much in leaf, but give a large quantity of seed, for a fat earth causes the plants to grow luxuriantly in stalk and blade, but there result therefrom few or no seeds, and vice verså, for the same thing happens here as in regno animali, a fat hen lays few eggs. [T. I. p. 376-] At rätt propagera Arbutus af frön. The proper way to raise Arbutus from seed. Mr. Gordon told me that there are very few nursery- men who can raise, fort planta, Arbutus folio serrato, C. B. from seed, for it comes up well enough after it has been sown from seed, but when it is transplanted it com- monly dies. Mr. Gordon’s plan for this was that he sowed the seed in a forcing bed, dref-bank, and as soon as its plants came up, he transplanted them ; for if he waited longer, they commonly died when they were moved to another place, a thing which few people know.
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