This comes, the superintendent says, from my not having read enough, and he has made me a present of some of Ole Vig's books, which are matchless, for I understand everything in them.

The superintendent is very kind to me, and he tells us many things.

Everything here is very inferior compared with what they have abroad; we understand almost nothing, but learn everything from the Scotch and Swiss, although horticulture we learn from the Dutch.

Many visit these countries.

In Sweden, too, they are much more clever than we, and there the superintendent himself has been.