DECEMBER 5, 1874.] THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. : 
709 
— SUTTONS’ 
PRIZE STOCKS of FARM SEEDS 
ee ELD CATTLE ae 
STAND 86. 
WILL EXHIBIT AN IMMENSE COLLECTION OF 
SPECIMENS OF THEIR 
Improved Varieties of Agricultural 
: Roots, 
GROWN BY THEIR CUSTOMERS, 
nder Ordinary Field Cultivation, in various 
parts of the United Kingdom. 
“THE COLLECTION WILL INCLUDE 
SPECIMENS OF 
SUTTONS’ BERKSHIRE PRIZE YELLOW 
GLOBE MANGEL, 
Which this year has produced, on the Earl of 
Warwick's Heathcote Farm, Warwick, the 
inaty weight of 84 tons per acre, being 
the heaviest field-crop ever knowin » 
SUTTONS’ MAMMOTH LONG RED 
MANGEL, 
Weighing upwards of 40 Ib, each, and which 
: has been awarded, for the past six years; the 
. First Prizes at the Birmingham Cattle Show. 
_ SUTTONS’ CHAMPION SWEDE, 
the best Swede in Cultivation, which has 
Podnet 62 tor tons per acre (Irish) and been 
_ SUTTON å SONS, | 
QUEEN'S SEEDSMEN, READING. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1874. 
atid E 
BOUND FOR BELGIUM. 
( ed from p 
T the next station, Mouscron (pronounce 
Moocron), you ate in Belgium, and no 
Here you leave the French train, not 
her luggage inspected by the Belgian Customs 
sticks or umbrellas left behind in 
your railway carriage would probably be lost. 
The examination is not severe, and is perhaps 
acta from the French. 
tapeism and bureaucratism about their ways. 
Tickets hen (billets) aré- now called coupons, 
some, in 
water and pera offer themselves to the public 
are quite free-and-eas 
As a corollary, they often post on their walls the 
ome which you first behold at chro 
which, being given in four languages, I 
ibe ‘for the shy of my polyglot 
rend 
Will be 2 received At she Stand, at 
IEP Mitaa Pap cês. ; 
dieven”; “Man hütë sich vo 
dieben ” ; “ Beware of th a 
n entering the Belgian train you find even 
the third-class carriages lofty and roomy, 
éausing them to be used by many persons whose 
appearance would bespeak them to be second- 
class at least. But a most praiseworthy merit 
is the lowness of the Belgian railway fares. For 
instance, Lille may be roughly taken as half- 
way een Calais and Ghent; but the fare 
from Lille to Ghent "cand part of the pte is 
still in France) is less than half the fare from 
Calais to Lille, and that with inferior eae 
coat on the French portion of the line. Soon 
fter leaving a Belgian station, the conductor of 
the train looks in at your catriage, mentions 
the next station, and takes the tickets of the pas- 
sen gers who z. out there į which isa warning 
to dozers not their n and 
the | 
they are so diverse on 
it is hot nice, you are 
self, “If this is the second- 
jê ? l, 
cheapness is 
It is better to 
than to be prevented by high fares fares from trav el- 
ling at all. "ee lines offer j 
yet shady, prese g all the advantages of a 
locomotive Sapena fared with seats. 
In France the prices of first and secon ca. 
long distances only. In the slow F trains, 
called “mixte in gsi Wa press the 
tickets are not a centime gen than if you 
took them for quicker trains. Now, in Belgium 
you can go second-class (though not third-class) 
by eto but the first and second-class tickets 
by express trains are dearer than by slower and 
otter U trains. This is no more than fair. 
time be money, it is just pa a saving of time 
should be paid for with mon 
The absence of severe ae on Belgian rail- 
to another at an early period of the journey, a 
the conductor, and pay the difference. 
would never dream that you meant to cheat e 
company by the grdi but only to suit your 
own convenience. You can get up into a train 
without any ticket at all, and when the con- 
ductor or guard appears, pay him. He is fur- 
hished with “ coupons,” which he tears out of a 
sort of cheque-book, intended for those emer- 
gencies. Indeed, every sam, as a rule, is 
afforded for the speed and convenience of 
travellers with purses. In consequence 
csiiglicald network of railways which covers 
Belgium, to get from one town to another, say 
from Liège to Antwerp, you have often to make 
a halt, in this case at Louvain—which gives 
ample time to go and see the elaborate facade 
of its famous Town Hall. 
second-class, and in a hurry to reach Antwerp, 
by taking a third-class ticket at Louvain, with 
the two tickets you can go first-class by the 
next express train, and reach Antwerp two or 
three hours sooner, 
On French railways each passenger is allowed 
30 kilos., about 70 1b. of luggage, with no other 
charge thar the 10 centimes, or one penny, for 
registering it; and a party travelling together 
may have their soeng: registered in a lump = 
so that M the average per | 
10 centimes, Any ve m 
for extra ; but vii Sort arcing people it goes 
a long way. The Belgian railways allow no 
Weight of luggage gratis, except what you carry 
very respectable quan- 
tities of baggag 
Belgium every eo of property which does not 
accompany you your onal efi 
charged for. E crossing the railway net 
obliquely, with frequent change of lines, the 
trouble, not the expense, of luggage becomes 
eat as to convert it into a serious and 
Il except needful bag- 
gage to the town at which they propose making 
any stay. r 
To complete these diffetences the time is not 
‘noon Z 
convenience sake, railway time is 
over Prance, and all over Belgium 
notwithstanding the different fonigitudes of rae 
ferent localities along the area stretching from 
east to west. A difference of clock- time must 
be fixed nd 
frontier that it is made, 
adieu to French time, and set our watches to 
Belgian time at Mouscron. 
Smoking carriages and ladies’ carriages were- 
probably French and Belgian before they were 
English ; but, after all, it is not to be wonder 
at, nor complain Co ntinental 
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