118 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



or glass-houses, except some large and well-trained fruit trees on 

 walls. Every tiling was neglected now, however, and we did no 

 more than glance at them. There were some new stables nearly 

 finished, the plans of which I studied with interest. Each horse 

 is to have a private box. I do not recollect the exact size, but 

 it is at least twelve feet square on the floor, and more than that 

 high. In the ceiling is a ventilator, and in one corner an iron 

 rack for hay (much like a fire-grate) ; and there is probably in- 

 tended to be a small manger for fine and wet feed. There is a 

 grating for drainage hi the floor, and, besides these, no other fix- 

 tures whatever. The horse is to be left free within the walls. 



