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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$from seed, fifty or fifty-two years since, and from the time it was sown it has not been moved from the same place. The others, which had been sown at the same time, but afterwards moved, had not yet shown a sign of fruit. The 20th May. To-day we took a walk down to the Greenwich side on the south side of the river 1 hames. In all our walks out into the country, however often they occurred, we took care to notice, som fast ofta Skedde, togo vi noga i akt, what the grass growth in the meadows consisted of, its State of luxuriance, with various things which belong to the cultivation of meadows, ängs-skötseln, but asthis would take up too much room in a description of traveis, en Resebeskrifning, it is left for some other Academic work. Stängsel omkring krydd-gärdar åkrar, ängar, &C. Fcnces around market-gardens, arable felds, meadows, &c. The palings and fences, stängsel oct hägnad, which on this side, quite near to London, were used round nursery and market gardens, arable, and meadows, trä- och köks-krydd-gårdar, &c., were commonly such mud-walls or clay-walls, mull-valler, as have been previously described [p. 379, orig.~\. In other places there was a similar mud-wall, but still not so liigh, on which the Elder tree, Fläder-trä, Sambucus, had been planted, and which have made a thick and beautiful hedge. By all these earth-walls there were commonly ditches, which still, in this drought, had an abundance of water in them. [T. I. p. 411.] In some places on these walls there were Willows, pilar, planted, about twoorthree fathoms from each other, which had been cut oft, or polled, about 12$