A. 



CHELSEA. 



[T. I. p. 386.J The 5th May, 1748. 

 Tra-och koks-krydd gardar. Orchards and 



vegetable market-gardens. 



On all sides round about Chelsea there is scarcely 

 seen anything else than either orchards or vegetable 

 market-gardens, and beautiful houses as it were scattered 

 amongst them. The orchards, Tra-gardarna, were 

 full of all kinds of fruit trees, such as apple, pear, plum, 

 cherry-trees, &c, which were now nearly all at their best 

 in full flower. I saw here in many places large fields 

 which were nothing but Tra-scholor, all planted full of 

 all kinds of small trees for sale. There were here many 

 gardeners, Tra-gards-mastare, whose only means of 

 living consisted entirely of these Tra-scholor, " tree 

 schools," or as they are here called nurseries. This was 

 in itself a very useful thing, for when a gentleman or any 

 one else had bought an estate, or [T. 1. p. 387] wished 

 to form a new garden, he was not obliged to wait for 

 several years before he could rear from seed, small trees 

 which he could plant out, but he could at once buy all 

 such of various sizes, well cultivated and clipped, from 

 the aforenamed nurserymen, so that he could in one year, 

 if he was otherwise able to afford it, om han annors 

 hade rad dertil, plant as many trees in his garden as 

 he wished and required, and of whatever kind he pre- 

 ferred. In the same way, if any old trees went off by 



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