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room 16 by 20: t. kitchen, with sink, and store-room Whole front, 50 feet.

u. W.

The areas are worth noticing:

Fig. 1, 192 feet. The least farmer's house: same as a good cottage.

Fig. 2, 1080 feet. The farmer's habitation; the

most common.

Fig. 3, 1520 feet. A wealthy farmer's house.

Fig. 4, 2000 feet. Ditto.

It is a rural absurdity to entertain the idea of more than one story to a farmer's habitation-or to any habitation in the country, less than a proud palace.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XV.

Fig. 5.

PLAN of a two-story house :-50 feet long, 20 feet

wide; passage, 10 by 20; two rooms, 20 feet square ; chimney in each room, at pleasure.

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Fig. 6.

Elevation of the same two-story habitation of all show and little use; but, withal, very inconvenient, and very costly.

Fig. 7.

Elevation of the farmer's one-story habitation, of which the plan is in pl. XIV, fig. 2. a size and form suitable to farms the most common, and which are cheap, strong, convenient, wholesome, and the best adapted for the purposes of a farmer's family, and the views and employments of country house-wifery.

Epitome, p. 142, Speaks of the uses of the Vi144,$

nery,

151, &c. of the size, &c. of the Vi

nery.

152, refers to Pl. XIV.

If any more is wanted of Vineries, refer at large to Speachley's book treating of them in England, 8vo.

INDE X.

APRICOTS, sorts, to plant and train, 3, 128.

ripen when there is little other fruit, 128
when and how head down, 4, 5.

when very young, make tarts, 129.
bear best where the ground is hard, 129.

ALMONDS, sorts, training, 67.

cured in sand, 68.

dwarfs easily covered against spring frosts, 67. in clay, cold soil, 146.

AMERICA, the climate favourable to fruits, 128. its garden and orchard fruits, 128, 133.

its country habitations, 134, 138, 148.

the gardens, 139, 148.

country habitations, old and modern compared, 148, birds inoffensive or injurious to crops, 155.

APPLES, to harvest and store, 90, 92.

scarce in America from neglect, 131.

AUTUMN, an objection to prune then, 5.

BARBERRIES, sorts, how propagate and prune, 58, 59.
attract singing birds, their use, 58, 59.
BOOKS, on husbandry, advantageous to husbandmen, 125.
BUDDING, general account of it, 74.

time and signs of the buds taking, 81.

of cutting off the stocks, 81.

particular modes of budding, 107.

the various tools, 107.

times for budding, 108.

BIRDS, &c. advantageous or disadvantageous to husbandry, 155.

CATERPILLAR, a sort peculiar to gooseberries, 52, 53.
CANKER described, and cure, 93, 94.

CHESNUTS, sorts and propagation, 68 to 70.

plant out in autumn, head down in time, 70.

CHERRIES, see the advertisement, ante. and American, 128.
ingredient in cherry brandy, 128.

COMPOSITION, always apply to parts cut, 5.

liquid, 94-powder, 100, 106,

experience of it, and approved abroad, 114.
has effected vast improvements, 126.

COVERING FRUIT-TREES AGAINST FROST, 5, 6.
CURRANTS, the sorts, 53.

to continue in June to November, 54.
jelly of black currants, 54.

black currants as used in Ireland, 54.
to propagate, 55, 56.

prune

and head down, 56, 57.

dwarf currant-trees preferred, 58.

keep clear of suckers, 58.

CELLARS in the country best under an out-house, 149.

CIDER scarce in America from neglect, 131.

CUCUMBERS assisted in a vinery, 144.

DISEASES OF FRUIT-TREES, 99, 100.

DWARF FRUIT-TREES preferable to Espalier, 11.
in a vinery, 142.

ESPALIER, inferoir to dwarf trees, 11.

EXPERIMENTS, comparative, in pruning pears, 24, 25, 26.
in heading down, composition, powder,
&c. 109, 113, 126.

ENGRAVINGS, the plates explained, 167.

FIGS, sorts, pruning and culture, 40.

the fruit and wood matured in a vinery, 142.

covering the trees against frost, 43, 45.

milk oozing, how stopt, 44.

to train horizontally, 45.

their spurs, leave to grow, 45.
to shelter against winter, 45.

to forward their ripening early, 44.

FROST, late in England, 31.

FORSYTH, his merit, and treatise recommended, 125.
his composition, heading, and training, superior!
and have effected astonishing improve
ments, 126.

FRUIT, when to begin thinning it, 11.

of America, 125.

dried in kilns,. 129.

rule for having enough, 141, 142.

FRUIT-TREES, defects repaired, 99.

FARM-YARD, in full view from the house, 140.

GRAFTING, 74.

signs of the buds having taken, 81.

time and manner, of the stock in budding, 81.

GARDEN, the site to prefer, 82. Soil and form, 83.
ploughings and digging before planting, 84.
water convenient-irrigating, &c. 84.
walks and drains, 85, 86.

borders, walks, paths, 86.

pits for hot-beds, 86, 87.

plan of the garden, to be kept, 87.

walls, foundation, height for kitchen garden, 87.
size, brick best in walls, 88.

in America, 140-divide and plough, 141.
GOOSEBERRIES, sorts, and how raised, 47, 48, 49, 51.
soil rich, and dunged often, 49,
shade, 49, 51. Thinning, 51.
cut down and train, 49, 50, 52.
fruit on second year's wood, 49.

modern improvements, in watering, rich

soil, and thinning, 51.

early and late fruit, attend to, 51, 52.
garden shears injurious, 52.

a gooseberry early catterpillar, 52, 53:

GUM, described and cured, 94, 95.

GRAPES, trained serpentine, 142.

GREEN GAGE, the best stock for it, 146.

HEADED DOWN trees, how superior in fruit, 24, 27.

chesnuts to be well rooted, 70.

particulars of preference, 115, 120.

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