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especially American ones which can endure the English 

 climate, and stand out the whole winter. However neat 

 and small this garden was, there was, nevertheless, 

 scarcely a garden in England in which there were so 

 many kinds of trees and plants, especially [T. I. p. 452] 

 of the rarest, as in this. It was here that Mr. Collinson 

 sometimes, as often as he got time from his business, 

 amused himself in planting and arranging his living 

 collection of plants. 



Hast knockors nytta. 



An use of horse-leg knuckle-bones. 



For the border or the outer edge of the flower-beds, 

 Mr. Collinson had set knuckle-bones, knockor, of horse 

 or ox-legs, such as the boys with us in Sweden and Fin- 

 land use to make their so-called is-laggor, " ice-legs," 

 with which they run upon the ice. The transversal end, 

 den tvara andan, was set down in the ground, and 

 the round curled end stood upwards. All were the same 

 length, and quite close to one another, which performed 

 the same service in hindering the earth from slipping 

 down from the beds, as if there had been boards set 

 round them. This use of horse-leg bones in kitchen- 

 gardens I have seen before at several places just outside 

 Moscow, in Russia. 



Hum Viscum sas. How Mistletoe is sown. 



Mr. Collinson told us his method of sowing Viscum 

 (Linn. Fl. Svec. 816), which consisted in this. The berry 

 is squeezed open, Baren kramas sonder, and laid on 

 the smooth places on the bark, pa de slata stallen i 

 barken, of some tree, when it very quickly fastens itself. 

 But if they are laid in the rimes or cracks, skramor 

 eller sprickor, of the bark of a tree, they will fasten 



on to it with difficulty. 



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