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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    “ available to plant all kinds of trees in, and after “ setting the trees in the order, and in the positions they “ ought to occupy so that they may grow, then, as I “ have the money, I can always build the most hand- “ some Castle in one year, and even a shorter time, when I [T. I. p. 442] choose to do so, which it would take a poorer man 10 years to build, but to effect so “ much as that a single tree shall take root and grow as “ much in one year as it would otherwise grow in ten, “ that can I never effect with money, but Nature must “ have its time ; therefore he who intends to build a “ house, and lay out a garden round it, ought to make “ a beginning with planting trees to gain time.” In the evening we went back to London, together with Dr. Mitchell, Mr. Watson, and several other naturalists, who had been out at the Duke’s this day. The 30th May, 1748. During the whole of my visit to England, both before and after the date just given, I made numerous observa- tions not only on the cultivation of meadows, but on the plants of which the hay and grass growth in their meadows particularly consists, and which plants are the most profitable in their meadows 011 various kinds of soil; which plants horses, donkeys, cows, sheep, swine, and other animals usually eat; and which, on the con- trary, they reject, and always pass by; with several other (Economico-Botanical observations ; but, as they would take up too much room in a description of traveis, they are left for another occasion to be published either in Academic Disputations or under some other name. The 2nd June, 1748. Plants nseful for sowing on the sides of Earth-walls, to fasten the mould hy. I have several times before mentioned, that in several
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