868 HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



guilders (fS to 4 guineas) an acre ; in both cases with the 

 \ ieu of being occuffted as pasture only. Market-gardeners 

 pay for land, at some distance from town, 2 id. English per 

 fall, which is equal to £G, 5s. Sterling for the Dutch acre, 

 or at the rate of £3 : 14 : 6 the Scots acre, or near £3 the 

 English ; near Haarlem, the rent is perhaps quadrupled ; 

 such land as Messrs Kreps occupy in nursery crops paying 

 perhaps lOd. per fall of rent, or about £ c 25 Sterling the 

 Dutch acre, (equal almost to £\% the English acre, or 

 i?14, 10s. the Scots,) besides public burdens, which in 

 Holland are numerous and heavy, particularly for the sup- 

 port of the dikes, water-mills, and drains. 



The Cathedral 



Aag. SI. — This being a Sunday, and the last we should 

 spend in Holland, Mr Hay and I went, as early as half 

 past nine in the morning, to the Grote Kerk, that we might 

 witness the mode in which the whole services of the day are 

 conducted. — To some readers, a few sentences on this sub- 

 ject may be agreeable : others may pass them over ; for we 

 readily admit that they are scarcely in place in a horticul- 

 tural tour. 



Till the minister enters, the clerk reads the Scriptures. 

 As soon as the pulpit is occupied, the singing of a psalm is 

 commenced; the number of the psalm and verse having 

 been previously announced by means of small telegraphic 

 frames, placed in conspicuous situations, with large moveable 

 Arabic figures. Every one has heard of the grand organ 

 which fills the west end of this church. The tones arc in- 

 deed very fine ; but they are soon lost in the still more im- 

 pressive motet of a thousand voices, the whole congregation 

 cordially joining in the hymn. To enjoy the organ in 

 jh rfedion, therefore, the visitant should remain after the 

 serrice is finished, when, upon the congregation retiring, 



