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■pig. 8. — Plan of Mr. Bowermans Orchard, showing the method of 
planting the Trees in rows 21 feet apart. 
-'() acres of meadows that can be subjected to the action of 
water. These are not arranged on the system of the regular 
water-meadows of Somersetshire, but are flooded from the 
higher ground by the diversion of a small brook that bounds 
the one side of the farm. Water is let on after heavy rains at 
intervals throughout the winter. At the time of drawing for 
mowing, which is as late as the second and sometimes the third 
week in April, they have four days' wetting, and this is repeated 
ten days later, after which nothing is done until the hay is re- 
moved. Hay is usually cut about Midsummer, and when carried 
the ground is again flushed for a couple of days. 
Arable Land.— The four-course system is pursued, with varia- 
tions in the intermediate cropping, and change of description of 
roots and seeds on the same fields as the alternations occur. 
The ri'Tid rotation should be : — 
Wheat, 
Roots, 
Barley, 
Seeds : 
