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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    Huru Tran-bär kunna sås i en Trägård. How Cranberries can be sown in a garden. Mr. Collinson showed me, among other plants, our common Tran-bärs-ris Vaccinia, 315, palustna, Lob. [Vaccinium Oxycoccos], Cranberry [O. palustris. Pers., Hooker], which are commonly very difficult to trans- plant into a garden. His method, in which he sought to follow Nature, was this. They were sown in a pot, kruka, full of earth ; but instead of leaving the hole at the bottom open, as in other flower-pots [T. I. p. 453] so that the water may run off and not stand at the bottom of the pot and stagnate, syra, he had stopped up the hole, so that the water stood and stagnated. The pot was set in the shade, and moss laid upon the earth, in which Vaccinium palustre grew. He said that he also got a great number of other bog and water-loving plants to grow by this method. Trägårds anläggning. How to lay out a garden. On this point, Mr. Collinson remarked that one of the principal circumstances in connection with it is, so to arrange that it has the morning sun. No one can believe what an influence it has when the sun gets the first thing in the morning to dry up the vapours, dunster, that have fallen in the night. Then, as regards the shape of a garden, Mr. Collinson held the quadrilateral, fyrkantiga, to be the best, and the circular not so good ; for the Duke of Richmond had his garden laid out in a circular form, which seemed as if it ought to ward off the drift of the weather more, but the experience was quite otherwise, for when the wind works itself in there, it does more harm than if it were four-sided, because it here courses round the garden, löper rundt omkring trägården, because the cir^ cular form hinders its escape.
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