the foot. There is also a rest which bears up the tool, and keeps it steady.

As it is the use and application of this instrument that makes the greatest part of the art of turning, we refer the particular description thereof, as well as the manner of applying it in various works, to that head. See Turning.

chickling-vetch, a genus of the diadelphia order, belonging to the decandria class of plants.

Species. 1. The latifolius, or everlasting pea, hath thick, fibrous, perennial roots; climbing, thick, branching annual stalks, having membranaceous wings between the joints, rising upon support by their cirri six or eight feet high; diphylous leaves, of two spear-shaped lobes, terminated by claspsers; and numerous large red or purple flowers on long foot-stalks, appearing plentifully from June till October, succeeded by abundance of seed. 2. The odorata, or sweet-scented pea, hath a fibrous annual root; a climbing stalk, rising upon support by its claspsers three or four feet high; diphylous leaves of two oval lobes, terminated by climbing tendrils; and flowers by two's on long flower-stalks, of different colours in the varieties. 3. The tangitanus, or Tangier-pea, hath a fibrous annual root, a climbing stalk rising upon support for four or five feet high; diphylous leaves, of two spear-shaped alternate lobes, terminated by tendrils; and from the joints of the stalk large reddish flowers by two's on long footstalks.

Culture. All these species are of hardy growth; and may be propagated by seed in the common ground, in patches where it is designed the plants should flower, for they do not succeed so well by transplantation. They may be sowed in spring; though, if sowed in autumn, the plants will flower earlier the following year.