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They had twined themselves around beeches, and 

 climbed up them right to the top. Their green leaves 

 covered the beeches so as to make them look at a distance 

 as if they were covered with verdure, and with full fresh 

 leaves close to the stem. The height of these ivy-bushes, 

 to the best of our judgment, a good 60 feet if not more. 

 We cut off one of the thickest, 4 feet from the ground, to 

 see how old it was, and measured its thickness. The 

 diameter was if inches, and it had here thirty sap-rings, 

 which showed its age in years. As it had climbed up the 

 tree it had everywhere driven in a number of fibres 

 and roots into the same, from its stem, to hold fast 

 by. It had branched itself in many branches, which all 

 ran upwards. Some went right up to the top, others 

 wound themselves somewhat spirally round the tree. 

 This is not particularly liked by wood-wards or gardeners, 

 because it injures the trees, draws the nourishment from 

 them, and causes decay. 



The 10th April, 1748. 



At fdrvara rotter om "Vintern. 



To keep roots in the Winter. 

 Our host told us that among the best ways that 

 are practised in England for keeping carrots, parsnips, 

 Mor-rotter, Palsternaekor, and other roots in the 

 winter uninjured by the cold, etc., is to lay them in dry 

 wheat-straw. Mr. Ellis said that some keep them in dry 

 sand [T. I. p. 308] in cellars. Others let them stand 

 out on the land the whole winter, only that the land is 

 covered well over with straw, or something else, so that 

 the cold cannot get at them. 



Tecken till vaderlek af Bellis. 



Sign of the weather from Daisies. 

 It was pleasant to see how Bellis sylvestris minor, C.B., 



