LONDON AND SUBURBS.' 4 1 



from seed, fifty or fifty-two years since, and from the time 

 it was sown it has not been moved from the same place. 

 The others, which had been sown at the same time, but 

 afterwards moved, had not yet shown a sign of fruit. 



The 20th May. 



To-day we took a walk down to the Greenwich side on 

 the south side of the river Thames. In all our walks out 

 into the country, however often they occurred, we took 

 care to notice, som fast ofta Skedde, togo vi noga 

 1 akt, what the grass growth in the meadows consisted 

 of, its state of luxuriance, with various things which belong 

 to the cultivation of meadows, angs-skotseln, but as this 

 would take up too much room in a description of travels, 

 en Resebeskrifning, it is left for some other Academic 

 work. 



Stangsel omkring krydd-gardar akrar, angar, 



&C. Fences around market-gardens, arable fields, 

 meadows, &c. 



The palings and fences, stangsel Oct hagnad, which 

 on this side, quite near to London, were used round 

 nursery and market gardens, arable, and meadows, tra- 

 och koks-krydd-gardar, &c, were commonly such 

 mud-walls or clay- walls, mull-valler, as have been 

 previously described [p. 379, orig.]. In other places 

 there was a similar mud-wall, but still not so high, 

 on which the Elder tree, Plader-tra, Sambucus, had been 

 planted, and which have made a thick and beautiful 

 hedge. By all these earth-walls there were commonly 

 ditches, which still, in this drought, had an abundance of 

 water in them. 



[T. I. p. 411. J In some places on these walls there were 

 Willows, pilar, planted, about two or three fathoms from 

 -each other, which had been cut off, or polled, about 12 



