

HORTICULTURAL TOUK. 



Just as we had concluded our examination of the Ba- 

 ron's garden, it began to thunder and to rain. In passing 

 along the fields, our attention was attracted by one of the 

 Flemish ploughs calculated for giving the slight furrow 

 previous to sowing turnip and rape as a second crop. Mr 

 Hay made a hurried, but pretty accurate, sketch, which is 

 subjoined, with the explanation and measurements extract- 

 ed from his note-book. 



A, Single stilt. 



B, Piece of bent wood, about six or seven inches long, fix- 

 ed to the back of the stilt. 



C 1), An awkward wooden appendage, of a semicircular 

 form, moved up and down by means of a pin adapt- 

 ed to holes in a piece of iron, in order to regulate 

 the depth of the furrow: it has a broad face, which 

 .^Jips along the top of the ground. At this time, we 

 found tliis regulator elevated no higher than to permit 

 the furrow to be three inches deep, being about half the 

 d( pth only of the furrow at Bruges which we have al- 

 ly recorded as shallow. 



K. The coulter. 



The head of the plough had no sock; nor was there 



any iron aboul it, beside the coulter and the kind of sub- 



