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cauliflower plants were set, three or four under each bell- 

 glass. Besides the afore-named beds, there were here 

 long asparagus beds. Their height above the ground 

 was two feet. They had at the sides, either boards, or only 

 straw. On the top they were similarly covered with 

 glass, matting, and straw, which had just been all taken 

 off at mid-day. The Asparagus under them was one inch 

 [T. I. p. 146] ;high, and considerably thick. On the field 

 stood a number of bell-glasses with Asparagus under. 

 All these bell-glasses had not any straw, matting, or any- 

 thing else over them on account of the cold and snow, 

 but stood quite bare. They were all of one piece. 



Radisorne. The Radishes were also sown in beds, 

 which nearly lay horizontal with the ground. In the 

 snowy weather they had been covered over only with a 

 mat, which was taken off at mid-day. They had now 

 begun to come up. For shelter against the north wind, 

 there were set up by some beds on the field, small fences, 

 hagnader, of reeds arranged perpendicularly, and of 

 about 2 inches thickness. 



[Kalm was at Woodford from 28 Feb. to 16 Mar.J 



[T. I. p. 166. J The 16th March, 1748. 



In the morning I went in to London from Woodford, 

 to get certain information as to how soon any ship would 

 go from thence to America. 



Husens byggnad. The construction of houses. At 

 all the places I passed through in Essex, brick houses 

 were used, brukades Stenhus. They were all built of 

 brick, tegel, but in some of the farm houses the brick- 

 work was built between crossbeams of wood, var teglet 

 nrnradt emellan Kors-verk af tra, which were erected 

 both ad angulos rectos et acutos. Some out-houses only, such 

 as Lador och Logar, ' lathes ' and ' lodges, ' to thrash corn 

 in, horse-stables, hast-stall, etc., were so far of wood, that 



