the passage. It is proper and necessary, especially in country houses, that accommodations, mostly or all together, be on the ground-floor. A fre quent use of the rooms upstairs will naturally be avoided, as they are extremely inconvenient, but for bed-rooms. In towns a scarcity of ground obliges, a sore necessity, the building up house upon house, story upon story.

A clean small yard or two of close turf is highly useful to the country house-wife. The garden is more in sight and more likely to be attended to when in front of the dwelling, but at a proper distance and the road to the house is better to be somewhat round-about on one side of the garden : than to have it a directly straight, dead view to the eye at the house.

The small rooms in the old plan may be par lours; occasionally with a bed or matrass in one, easily removed, in the country way. The lobby has its uses, besides admitting the stair-case.

The first floors are of brick or cement in the old mode, upon the ground, raised six or eight inches with earth. The wall ought to be let three feet deep in the ground, against severe frosts.

Let nothing induce the having a cock-loft in either of the houses. They are dangerous recepticles of combustibles, and are often set fire to by carelessness. They ought to be so close that scarcely a cat can enter them. It will suffice that, after narrowing the area of the uppermost floor in the old method, because of the interference of the roof, there will remain an area of 36 feet by 24, to divide into six rooms, twelve feet square. The garret floor, in the new method, will divide into four rooms of 14 by 12 1-4 feet, of no very great demand in a country house, elevated as it would be.

Wind can make but little impression on the lowbuilt house; but what a powerful lever the high house would prove to be in storms ! In sweeping the chimnies and extinguishing fires, the preference is in favor of the low house. See more of man ions, p. 134.

The vinery may be only one, as is common, though some have two to advantage. The size for the above purposes in America may be 40 feet long, 12 broad, 12 or 13 high at the back wall, 3 or 4 at the front or south wall. The rafters

have sliding sashes, set with glass. This section is drawn by a scale of seven feet per inch.

Such a house would ripen and secure heath peaches in cold districts: the trees whereof might be dwarfs. Fig-trees would perfect their fruit, and harden their late grown wood. Also Lima beans, cucumbers, melons, peppers, &c. may here be aided in perfecting their ripening; but not be forced preternaturally.

In England, the flue is in the back wall; which can give plants only one side of its heat, very slowly and duly moderate; when the flue in the middle of the floor, as here, gives three sides, or three fourths of its heat. On the top of this stove may be a bed of good rich earth, and small seeds sown in it; or if seeds be sown in small pots, they might be early sprouted, and when frost is gone the pots and plants in them be disposed of in the garden; as Lima beans, peppers, &c. Some seeds need only be sprouted in the vinery, and then sown at large.

The gable-end of a vinery, or rather a section of it, is given in pl. XIV. in which is seen a view

of the width of the beds, paths, flue, &c. It is drawn on a scale of seven feet to an inch. Further,

1. Beds raised a foot or so: width shewn, three and a half feet.

2. Width of the paths, eighteen inches.

3. The flue, nearly long as the vinery; only leaving room to pass by the fire-place, from path to path.

4. Lower division of the glass frames.

5. Upper division of the same.

6. Covered with boards or shingles.

7. North wall of the garden and vinery.

8. Grape vines, planted outside; and enter the vinery about two feet up the front or south wall. This wall may be chiefly glazed.

The contents of this XIVth plate are respectfully submitted to the consideration of the farmers of America. They will determine which of the two

mansions, or the principles on which they are designed, is to be preferred by real farmers; and will consider of American gardens and fruits. Some general remarks are dispersed on these subjects; and the American farmer entreated to consult Mr. Forsyth's treatise, very frequently it containing the most valuable information that ever was made public on trees and fruits!

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The editor also recommends to landholders who may be desirous of propagating plantations of timber trees, that they consult the third volume of Anderson's essays on agriculture. He especially is important in what 'he writes of the larch-tree, of Europe; a tree so superior, in its uses, to all other trees, that the universal preference given to it by ancient nations has occasioned the extirpation of it in all accessible places of countries where it formerly was to be had; and where at this time little is to be found but what grows in inaccessible, mountainous places; saving in Russia, a new country, where they still obtain of it for building ships of war at Archangel. American larch differs from this pinus

larix lin.