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number of people which there crawl in the 

 streets, pay the market-gardeners many-fold 

 for their outlay." 



The next day, in the footsteps of Linnaeus, 

 Kalm walked beyond Chelsea to Fulham 

 " a pretty town with several smooth streets ; 

 all the houses of brick, very beautifully built " 

 crossed over a wooden bridge, paying a half- 

 penny toll, and found that " on the other side 

 of the Thames, opposite Fulham, there lay a 

 large and tolerably flat and bare common, which 

 was abandoned to pastures. It was for the most 

 part overgrown with furze, which was now in 

 its best flower, so that the whole common shone 

 quite yellow with it. In one place only was it 

 cut down for fuel." " In some places we saw 

 Ling." Putney Heath at that time (and when 

 Linnaeus saw it in its glory twelve years before) 

 must have extended to the river, and made, 

 with Barnes Common and Wimbledon Com- 

 mon, a great stretch of wild heath and furze. 



Kalm is astonished at the number of wigs he 

 sees in England. " All the labouring folk go 

 through their everyday duties with peruques 

 on the head." " The boy is hardly in breeches 

 before he comes out with a peruque, sometimes 

 not much smaller than himself." 



It is a comfort that, for three generations, 

 man's dress has become stable and reasonable. 

 Women's dress in the next century will 

 doubtless follow suit. 



The day following, Kalm is again at the 

 Physic Garden, and has a long talk with Philip 

 Miller on the vitality of long-buried seeds, 

 and on the heating of greenhouses. He notes 



