Kalm's account of his visit to England on his way to America in 1748 . Kabrcs ErtgLandJ wk. wmp Chelsea, ; etc CHELSEA. 9 r any chance, he could always in the above named wayeasily get others ; and because there were here so manywho drove this trade, so it was also easy to get suchyoung trees for a moderate price. The same thing is trueof market garden produce. Some nurserymen or marketgardeners lay themselves out for all kind of market-garden produce, to keep for sale, others trouble them-selves only about some few, which they sow in largequantities, and cultivate well. As we to
Kalm's account of his visit to England on his way to America in 1748 . Kabrcs ErtgLandJ wk. wmp Chelsea, ; etc CHELSEA. 9 r any chance, he could always in the above named wayeasily get others ; and because there were here so manywho drove this trade, so it was also easy to get suchyoung trees for a moderate price. The same thing is trueof market garden produce. Some nurserymen or marketgardeners lay themselves out for all kind of market-garden produce, to keep for sale, others trouble them-selves only about some few, which they sow in largequantities, and cultivate well. As we to-day wanderedout about Chelsea, we saw whole tracts, like very largearable fields, sown only with beans, cabbages, and aspa-ragus. The beans were all of the kind which are herecalled Broad Windsor Beans. They were all sown inrows, in broadland. The breadth between each row was21 inches, and often only i foot between the rows; andthe distance between the bean plants in each row, 9 inchesto 1 foot. They were now everywhere in flower. A boywent with a little iron hoe, jam hacka, and cleare
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