50 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



the towns, looked after our meadows with the same care 

 and diligence as the Englishmen around London, our 

 meadows would also yield, kasta af sig, as much and 

 as good hay as these, if not more so. The soil was here 

 the same as everywhere around London, viz., a brick- 

 coloured clay blended with a finer or coarser sand of the 

 same colour, the surface of which, by the decay of the 

 plants, had got to be mould, mylla. A great many of 

 the meadows on this side were now mown, and the hay 

 partly carried, partly also it still stood in rows or cocks. 



[Defer American Note.J 



[T. I. p. 419.] The 23rd May, 1748. 



Hvad Skilnad jordmon gor at vaxter. 



What difference the Soil makes to Plants. 



It is sometimes wonderful to see what a difference the 

 climate, as well as the soil, and other circumstances, make 

 to one and the same kind of plant. Medicago, 621 

 [M. lupulina~] covers, vaper pa, the acre-reins aker- 

 renar, of Upland in Sweden, and the roadsides in clay-soil, 

 ler grund, where it creeps out of the earth, and often 

 spreads itself out for a length of two feet on all sides. 

 When it gets into vegetable and other kitchen gardens it 

 grows still more luxuriantly and larger. Here around 

 London I found it on the hills and knolls, pa hdgder 

 OCh kullar, where it grows so miserable, small, and 

 slender, spinkot, that I had great difficulty in recog- 

 nizing it. I saw hardly a plant of it which had attained 

 a length of 6 inches, but most were only 4 inches long. 

 Some were also only 1 J insh. The soil was here a mixture 

 of brick-colored clay, sand, and humus, SVartmylla, 

 which seemed to be a good earth ; but still this plant 

 was here [T. I. p. 420] so small, though at the same time 

 a number of other plants grew luxuriantly enough. Lolium, 



