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of 18 inches or 2 feet, and 6 inches to 9 inches or more 

 between the plants in the row. They hoed here entirely 

 with small light English hoes, and the mould was moved 

 on to the stalks of the plants more and more as they 

 grew, so that they stood as it were i kupor,* that is 

 " banked up." Peas were growing on pea-sticks. The 

 tops of the stalks were cut off the beans so that they 

 might shoot more into pods of fruit. Between the plants 

 which were sown thicker the earth was cleared of weeds 

 and hoed up with quite small hoes of about 2 inches 

 broad, and with a handle, skaft, 2 feet long ; but it cost 

 enough to the one who hoed, who was thus obliged to go 

 very crook-backed, krokryggig, and stooping, luta, 

 the whole day. 



[T. I. p. 396.] The nth May. 



In the morning we walked out to see the places which 

 lay on the S.W. side of Chelsea, over the bridge at 

 Fulham, and went some distance on the other side of the 

 last-named place. At all places between Fulham and 

 Chelsea, which is a distance of two English miles, and 

 round about Chelsea, we saw little else than mere gardens, 

 Tra-gardar, and especially vegetable market-gardens, 

 kdks-krydd-gardar. We have told about them before. 

 Large brick houses, stenhus, which belonged to gentle- 

 men and others were scattered here and there among the 

 gardens, Tra-gardarna, to which those who lived in 

 London, now and then, especially on Saturday afternoons, 

 went to take the fresh air and to have the advantage of 

 tasting the pleasures of a country life. 



Fulhams Bro. Fulham Bridge [Putney B.] Fulham is a 

 Parish situated two miles from Chelsea, and four from 

 London, to the S.W. In appearance it is a pretty town 



* ■' Kupa. Amas de terre autour d'une plante." — Veste. Lex 1807. [J. L.] 



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