AGRICULTURE- 



BOOK I. 



the way I propose for laying out a residence, ought to unite the 

 park with the farm or general country, form excellent pastures 

 for milch cows, breeding mares, &c. ; or for growing meadow 

 hay; and the arable farm supplies artificial hay, corns, roots, 

 leaves, garden vegetables, green food for soiling with, and every 

 thing else to be expected from a complete farm *. The buildings 

 on a farm of this kind require to be equally various and compre- 

 hensive with the purposes for which the farm is used. The 

 chief group of them, or what may properly be called the far- 

 mery, should be near, or at least of easy access from, the family 

 offices or livery stables ; at the same time contrived so as not 

 to interfere with the principal approaches to the mansion, nor 

 to shew from it the common operations in the yard. Field ope- 

 rations are of a different nature, and may frequently be shewn 

 from a mansion.) Such a farmery should be well connected 



* I had an excellent opportunity of embodying my ideas on this subject, and on 

 every thing else respecting the formation of a complete and extensive residence, in 

 the treatise, estimates, designs, plans, and models given in to Sir Hew Hamilton 

 Dairy mple, Bart. I had the honour of seeing them fully approved of ; and should 

 nothing occur to prevent their full execution, the natural advantages of the situa- 

 tion, and the good taste of the proprietor, will certainly make it one of the finest 

 places in the island. It will unite all the beauties of Mount Edgecumbe on one side, 

 and more than those of the woods and grounds of Hawkstone, within itself. The 

 practice of some would justify me in giving plates from these designs, without hint- 

 ing whether they were already executed or approved of, or not. But this and other 

 species of quackery I despise, not wishing my fame (if I may ever obtain any) to 

 depend upon ostentatious exhibitions on paper, but upon real execution^, and 

 general good principles in my art. 



