KALM S ENGLAND. 



following day it ranged between 7 and 4 Cels. [44*6° 

 and 39/2° Fahr.] It remained thus all the other days 

 and never went above io° Cels. [50 Fahr. J. In Sweden 

 the fire is commonly lighted as soon as the thermometer 

 falls as low as io° Cels. There, 15 Cels. [59 Fahr.] is 

 considered very moderately warm, but 20 Cels. [68° 

 Fahr.] is too hot for most people, that is when the ther- 

 mometer hangs on the window frame. 



[T. I. p. 145.] The igth February, 1748. 



Koks-Kryddgardar. — Market- gardens appeared in 

 several places, together with very large fields which the 

 market-gardeners rented, and had sown with everything 

 that is required in the kitchen. The length and breadth 

 of the beds was such as is usual in kitchen gardens, some 

 with thin planks round them. They sloped, although a 

 very little, towards the mid-day sun. Most of them were 

 at this time covered over with glass frames, which could 

 be taken off at will. Under these they had sown cauliflower 

 seed, Blom-kals-fro, which was already come up four 

 inches high. The cauliflowers, Kalen, stood in even rows 

 across the beds, sangen, about eighteen inches between 

 each row, and each plant. As cold and snow had come, 

 they had placed the frames over the beds, afterwards 

 Russianmattingoverthese, and straw over that, four inches 

 thick. They had stood thus till to-day at noon, or a 

 little before, when the straw and mats were cast off, and 

 the frames raised quite up, so that the sun and air could 

 play freely over them. On some of these beds there were 

 no mats over the frames, but bare straw lay on the glass. 

 Otherwise the beds were arranged inside in the way 

 which is usual with forcing beds, drif-bankar, viz. : 

 horse-dung down at the bottom and fine good mould on 

 the top. Of the rest of the field, a great part was filled 

 with large bell-glasses, glas-klackor, under which also 



