68 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



Hum Tran-bar kunna sas i en Tragard. How 



Cranberries can be sown in a garden. 



Mr. Collinson showed me, among other plants, our 

 common Tran-bars-ris Vaccinia, 315, palustria, Lob. 

 [V actinium Oxycoccos], Cranberry [0. palustris. Pers., 

 Hooker], which are commonly very difficult to trans- 

 plant into a garden. His method, in which he sought to 

 follow Nature, was this. They were sown in a pot, 

 kruka, full of earth ; but instead of leaving the hole at 

 the bottom open, as in other flower-pots [T. I. p. 453] 

 so that the water may run off and not stand at the bottom 

 of the pot and stagnate, syra, he had stopped up the 

 hole, so that the water stood and stagnated. The pot 

 was set in the shade, and moss laid upon the earth, "in 

 which V actinium palustre grew. He said that he also got 

 a great number of other bog and water-loving plants to 

 grow by this method. 



Tragards anlaggning. 

 How to lay out a garden. 



On this point, Mr. Collinson remarked that one of the 

 principal circumstances in connection with it is, so to 

 arrange that it has the morning sun. No one can believe 

 what an influence it has when the sun gets the first thing 

 in the morning to dry up the vapours, dunster, that 

 have fallen in the night. 



Then, as regards the shape of a garden, Mr. Collinson 

 held the quadrilateral, fyrkantiga, to be the best, and 

 the circular not so good ; for the Duke of Richmond had 

 his garden laid out in a circular form, which seemed as 

 if it ought to ward off the drift of the weather more, 

 but the experience was quite otherwise, for when the 

 wind works itself in there, it does more harm than if it 

 were four-sided, because it here courses round the garden, 

 loper rundt omkring tragarden, because the cir- 

 cular form hinders its escape. 



