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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    5° the towns, looked after our meadows with the same care and diligence as the Englishmen around London our meadows would also yield, kasta af sig, as mueh and as good hay as these, if not more so. The soil was here the same as everywhere around London, viz., a brick- coloured clay blended with a finer or coarser sand of the same colour, the surface of which, by the decay of the plants, had got to be mould, mylla. A great many of the meadows on this side were now mown, and the hay partly carried, partly also it still stood in rows or cocks. [Defer American Note.] [T. I. p. 419.] The 23rd May, 1748. Hvad Skilnad jordmon gör åt växter. What difference the Soil makes to Plants. It is sometimes wonderful to see what a difference the climate, as well as the soil, and other circumstances, make to one and the same kind of plant. Medicago, 621 [M. lupidina'] covers, väper på, the acre-reins åker- renar, of Upland in Sweden, and theroadsides in clay-soil, ler grund, where it creeps out of the earth, and often spreads itself out for a length of two feet on all sides. When it gets into vegetable and other kitchen gardens it grows still more luxuriantly and larger. Here around London I found it 011 the hills and knolls, på högder och kullar, where it grows so miserable, small, an slender, spinkot, that I had great difficulty in recog- nizing it. I saw hardly a plant of it which had attaine a length of 6 inches, but most were only 4 inches long. Some were also only i£ inch. The soil was here a mixture of brick-colored clay, sand, and humus, svartmylla, which seemed to be a good earth ; but still this plant was here [T. I. p. 420] sc small, though at the same time a number of other plants grew luxuriantly enough. Lolium,
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