Kalm's account of his visit to England on his way to America in 1748 . WOODFORD. Country between London and Woodford.[T. I. p. 146.] The 2&th February, 1748. N the morning I went out into thecountry to a place named Wood-ford, 10 miles from London, inEssex. The prospect of thecountry between London andWoodford, where we now travelledwas mostly plain, or only in smallhills. The whole way there isnothing else but a succession ofbeautiful houses, fertile arable fields and verdant all the houses there was commonly a garden full ofvarious beautiful trees. The walls of the houses wereover
Kalm's account of his visit to England on his way to America in 1748 . WOODFORD. Country between London and Woodford.[T. I. p. 146.] The 2&th February, 1748. N the morning I went out into thecountry to a place named Wood-ford, 10 miles from London, inEssex. The prospect of thecountry between London andWoodford, where we now travelledwas mostly plain, or only in smallhills. The whole way there isnothing else but a succession ofbeautiful houses, fertile arable fields and verdant all the houses there was commonly a garden full ofvarious beautiful trees. The walls of the houses wereoverdrawn either with Syringa, Caprifolium, [LoniceraCaprifolium] Goatsleaf Honeysuckle, Hedera, Ivy orMespilus pyri folio Sempervirens, or some other some places there were not planks but hedges roundthe gardens, of Taxus, yew, elm, hawthorn, or someother tree. The whole of the land was divided into inclosures, ortappor OCh tackter, which were all surrounded byhedges of all kinds of planted trees, especially hawthorn,sloe, [T. I. p. 147] dog-rose, blackber
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