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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    banks of ditches and elsewhere. It is sown here in the kitchen gardens and used in the winter-time and also in the spring while it is still tender, as salad, or more cor- rectly speaking as gron-kål, chouvert, in the same way as we in Sweden prepare spinach. If they have not planted it in the kitchen gardens they avail themselves of the wild ones. Ängar och deras gräs-växt. Meadows and their Grass Growth. On the whole of this side of London which we visited to-day there was a great multitude of inclosures, or täppor, nearly all laid out as meadows. The land around Hampstead consisted mostly of hills, long-sloping on all sides. The grass-growth in them was very beau- tiful, and now as long as any on our very best meadows in Sweden at the end of June, which is principally owing to this, that these meadows are here commonly manured every year. On most of the meadows around Hampstead the grass growth consisted almost solely of Bromus, 87 [Banks, MS. ‘varietas secalini ’], which here stood as thick as the thickest rye-fields, and every plant was 2 feet 6 inches high or more. When this grass grew on high hills, kullar, and on very dry places, it was not longer than it commonly is in Sweden. [T. I. p. 418.] Some other kinds of grass had mingled themselves amongst it, but they were so few, that it is not worth while to mention them. Among them, however, Alope- curus 52 [A. pratensis L.], was the commonest. I also noted however, that in most of the beautiful meadows which are found round London, both these aforenamed kinds of grass have nearly always formed the most plentiful, best, and most luxuriant grass-growth. I should also think that if we in Sweden, especially near to K
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