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Arch, erected in honour of the great naval commander George Lord 

 Anson. The shrubberies and pleasure-grounds are extensive, and 

 laid out in the best modern taste, well decorated with fancy build- 

 ings and sculpture, and kept in the highest style of neatness. A 

 kitchen garden of several acres is walled and subdivided ; the walls 

 well stored with the choicest fruit-trees, with very extensive ranges 

 of hot-houses, in which the pine-apple, the grape, the peach, the 

 fig, and other varieties of hot-house fruits, flowers and plants, are 

 cultivated in the highest perfection. 



One of the hot-houses is heated with steam, in which melons and 

 cucumbers are produced in perfection at all seasons. These gardens 

 are a kind of Academy for the study of Horticulture, in which young 

 men enter themselves to assist without pay, for tire purpose of im- 

 proving themselves, and gaining knowledge in the art. 



His Lordship's farming is to the extent of 2000 acres. A farm- 

 yard has been constructed at a convenient distance from the family- 

 seat, under the direction of Mr. Wyatt the architect, consisting of 

 the farming steward's house on one side : a range of buildings on 

 another contains a brewhouse, upon a large scale, a water corn- 

 mill for the use of the family and farm, and in which corn is ground 

 for the neighbouring poor gratis, and also a malt-house. The oppo- 

 site side and end are occupied by stalls for feeding cattle, store- 

 rooms, stables, and other appendages. In- the middle of the yard 

 is a very complete hoggery, built of large stones set edge-wise, 

 and covered with slate, with a boiler for heating hog-food, and a 

 cold bath, supplied by the mill stream, for giving an occasional 

 washing to the pigs, to promote their health and cleanliness. Here 

 a number of hogs are fattened on dairy refuse, boiled roots or vege- 

 tables, pulse, ground barley or bran, supplied by the mill near 

 at hand. 



At some distance above the farm-yard is the stack-yard and 

 barns, where a powerful threshing machine is worked by the same 

 stream that afterwards supplies the garden and works the corn-mill. 

 This machine will thresh out 200 bushels of grain per day. The 

 erecting it cost less than o100. ; but in this expence the barns are 

 not reckoned, having been before built ; nor the mill-wheels, they 

 having been erected by a millwright, separate from the threshing- 

 machine. 



Arable Cultivation. This has, we believe, been upon so large a 

 scale, that <1100. has been paid in one year for the purchase of 

 lime as manure ; and the growth of barley in 1804 had been near 



