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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    on the Thames could be seen quite well. The country all round resembled a garden, and its many hedges pre- vented me from seeing much into the fields. In Kent the country looked like a collection of wood-grown hills, skog-beväxta högder, with ploughed fields among them. Hvetet. The wheat was sown in stitches or small ridges. Commonly, such a rygg was ten feet, sometimes, also, twelve feet broad, with water furrows between each rygg. No ditches were used on all the ploughed fields we saw to-day, except by the hedges. The height of the ridges in the middle was six inches, nine inches, or a foot higher than the bottom of the water furrows, and sloped towards both sides. The wheat here stood beautiful, no ears, ax, were yet seen. The barley, kornet, was sown in the same way as with us in Sweden, in broad land. Ärterna, Pease, were all sown in rows, and there was always three feet and sometimes three feet six inches be- tween the rows. They had with hoes, hackor, cleared away the wceds between the rows, and moved the loose mould, mullen, up towards the stalks of the peas. No pea- sticks, ruskor, or anything else had been laid here for the peas to climb up, but they were lying along the ground as they were large. It was a very convenient fashion to sow pease in this way in rows, i rader, for one could so very easily take away all the weeds with a rake, ty en hade ganska lätt före, at med en kratta utöda ogräsen. In the gardens on this side of the town we saw pease [T. I. p. 413] in the same way sown in rows; but then there was not commonly more than eighteen inches, two feet, or two feet six inches between the rows. Bönorna, Beans, on these fields were all sown in broad cast, yet on ten feet wide stitches, but in the market gardens at Southwark the garden beans were all sown in
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