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and meadows, as well as inchsures to make notes on one 

 thing and another. 



Af hvad vaxter hoet bestar. 



Of what plants the hay consists. 



On p. 227 orig. 225 above, are enumerated of what 

 plants the hay consists in one of the Duke of Bridgewater's 

 hay lathes, holador. [T. I. p. 304.] 



To-day we amused ourselves by seeking out and 

 describing the plants which occurred in a haystack at 

 Hudnall. The hay smelt incomparably sweet, so that 

 there could hardly be a more agreeable scent from hay. 

 The owner said they had no other art with it than to 

 take care that it is dry weather when the hay is cut, 

 and the same dry weather will require it frequently to 

 happen that it is cut the one day and before the evening 

 -of the next day it stands in the haystack ; only that it 

 has necessarily been turned and dried before it is set in 

 the stack. He ascribed the good scent that the hay had 

 only to the goodness of the soil. How it is with this, I 

 leave there, but this I know, that I have seen not only 

 here where the soil, jordmon, was blended with chalk, 

 and on the chalk hills, but elsewhere in England where 

 the soil consisted of Gravel, grus, and where no chalk 

 was found for several miles — I have seen hay, which in 

 colour was somewhat red, til fargen ronnat uagot, 

 and which at a distance many might have taken for 

 spoilt, but which had nevertheless, the loveliest scent 

 that hay can ever have, so that it was a pleasure to 

 smell it, and which besides that was eaten more than 

 greedily by horses and cattle. The art, konsten, by 

 which this was prepared, shall be discussed a little farther 

 on. As this hay which we saw to-day was grown here 

 on high banks or hills, llOga backar, we sought dili- 

 gently to see whether we could not find Linnasus' far- 



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