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means the most meagre places are converted into 

 fruitful land. The Duke, who had himself the greatest 

 insight into Botany, as well as Mathematics, and other 

 branches of Natural Science, Naturkunnogheten, 

 had also had a beautiful garden laid down here. The 

 first beginning of it was made in [T. I. p. 441] the year 

 1723, when the Duke first bought, tilhandlade sig, 

 this ground. Here, there was a collection of all the 

 kinds of trees, which grow in different parts of the world, 

 and can stand the climate of England out in the open 

 air, summer and winter. The Duke had himself planted 

 very many of these trees with his own hand. There was 

 here a very large number of Cedars of Lebanon, which 

 appeared to have the best opinion of a dry and meagre 

 earth, and it seems that it might be suitable for planting 

 on our great heaths and sandy tracts, stora heder OCh. 

 moar,* in Sweden and Finland. 



Of North American Pines, Granar, Firs, Tallar, 

 Cypresses, Thuyas, all these and many other kinds, 

 there was an abundance, which throve very well. There 

 were already small groves of them. Diligence and Art 

 have not been spared here to make everything delightful. 

 The Duke comes out here from London as often as he 

 can find time from his duties. Here is also a beautiful 

 orangery. There were no more than just sufficient rooms 

 in the house, though they were very pretty, but not to 

 be compared with such Castles, Slott, and Palaces 

 which such great lords are used to have, and are 

 especially common in England. The Duke himself 

 observed the thoughts, which in consequence of this, 

 arose in my mind and in that of my travelling companion. 

 " Your wonder," said he, " probably is why I have not a 

 " larger and grander house here than this ; but I have 

 " first decided to prepare this meagre soil, and make it 



* Mo. glarea sterilis. Wallerius, Mineralo^ia, Stockholm, 1747. [J, L.] 



