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kitchen and flower market gardens, for koks och 

 blomster kryddgarden, so as to provide themselves 

 with seed, which they afterwards sell, and make their 

 living out of that alone. Other gardeners, tragards 

 mastare, only make it their business to keep trascholor, 

 or nurseries, in which they have all kinds of young trees 

 to sell, and so forth, so that it often happens, for example, 

 that one of the gardeners who has only laid himself out 

 for tree-planting, has not sown vegetables in his garden. 

 Amongst those who exclusively devoted themselves to 

 sowing all kinds of plants for the purpose of getting their 

 seeds for sale, was Mr. Gordon, who had before been 

 gardener to the famous Sherard. While I was in his 

 market garden I noticed that the earth and mould, which 

 he mostly used for his plants, was meagre enough in 

 comparison with what is generally used in a kitchen 

 garden, koks-krydd-gard. This was that the plants 

 might not shoot much in leaf, but give a large quantity 

 of seed, for a fat earth causes the plants to grow 

 luxuriantly in stalk and blade, but there result therefrom 

 few or no seeds, and vice versa, for the same thing happens 

 here as in regno animali, a fat hen lays few eggs. 



[T. I. p. 376.] 



At ratt propagera Arbutus af fron. The proper way to 

 raise Arbutus from seed. 



Mr. Gordon told me that there are very few nursery- 

 men who can raise, fort planta, Arbutus folio serrato, 

 C. B. from seed, for it comes up well enough after it has 

 been sown from seed, but when it is transplanted it com- 

 monly dies. Mr. Gordon's plan for this was that he 

 sowed the seed in a forcing bed, dref-bank, and as soon 

 as its plants came up, he transplanted them ; for if he 

 waited longer, they commonly died when they were moved 

 to another place, a thing which few people know. 



