5 o OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



leaves are twitted together by the friers, who 

 make prefents of them to ornament the houfes 

 on Palm-funday ; and on that day they are 

 like wife flrewed about the ftreets. 



The vineyards looked very poorly, and arc 

 like our s burnt land (Swedieland) y for there 

 are neither leaves nor flowers to be feen. The 

 vines were planted in rows, and little drains 

 were made between each row. Medic or fnail 

 trefoil (Mcdicago polymorphci) and Rumcx fpi- 

 nofus were now in flower. 



The almond-tree (Amygdalus communis), in 

 Spanifli Almcndro, is an ornament to the vine- 

 yards with its white and reddifli-coloured blof- 

 foms. 



The olive-tree (Oka Europtzd) .was planted 

 in large fields, having a red-coloured foil mix- 



3 In Sweden, Finland, Livonia, and the greater part of 

 Ruiiia, where woods are plentiful, the countrymen cut 

 down large tradls, burn them, and then they Tow the land 

 for three years and mere together, b u caufe the allies of the 

 wood manure the land for all that lime; after which they 

 ciiufe another place, and proceed in the fame manner ; fo 

 that in twenty or more years they may return to the firft 

 place, which is then again entirely covered with wood; and 

 this i s called in the north ^-^cdicland. F. 



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