86 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



according to the quantity of salad one has. This is laid 

 on a plate, talrik, on which vinegar is poured, and is 

 well stirred about. After that, olive-oil, bomolja, is 

 poured on to it, after which the salt, vinegar, and olive- 

 oil are mixed well together. This is afterwards poured 

 on to the cut-up lettuce-leaves, which one puts into a dish, 

 and so well mixed with one another, when it is ready. 

 I never saw sugar used here with salad. Green cucum- 

 bers are prepared in the same way for salad, after they 

 have first been cut across into thin slices, tunna skif- 

 vor. Some mix the slices of cucumber with the lettuce- 

 leaves, and afterwards pour the prepared oil, vinegar, and 

 salt on to the mixture ; but generally each is prepared by 

 itself for [T. I. p. 473] the reason that all persons cannot 

 bear to eat of all the kinds, but have only a relish for one 

 of them. Some mix together cucumber slices, lettuce- 

 leaves, mint, salvia, krass, water-cress, &c, cut them 

 into large pieces, and prepare salad of them in the 

 manner described above. 



The 2jth June, 1748. 

 Aim. The Elm. There is scarcely any tree which 

 is so much planted in England as the elm-tree ; so that 

 it can, in a certain way, be called the Englishmen's 

 favorite tree* I saw great numbers of them in London, 

 and just outside the town. Nearly all the squares in 

 London were planted round with it. The Allees in St. 

 James's Park, outside the Royal Palace, were only and 

 solely of this tree, excepting that by the water there were 

 willows, pilar. So also around Moorfield. Likewise 

 where the Danish Church stands. This and the willow 

 were, in short, the only trees which were planted along 

 the sides of the streets. In the villages outside London 



* This is only true of the London clay and of the south. The oak mono- 

 polised the weald clay which Wm. Smith called the oak-tree clay. [J. L.] 



