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THE CULTIVATOR. 
April. 
ORNAMENTAL CARRIAGE HOUSE AND HORSE BARN. 
We often notice, in works on Landscape Gardening, 
directions for concealing from view by trees, the barns 
and Other out-buildings of the farm, with the evident un-. 
derstanding that they are and must be unsightly objects. 
We believe these directions to be founded in error, because 
among the most important comforts and conveniences 
of a country establishment, are good and commodious 
out-buildings. Indeed, they may in some degree be re¬ 
garded as forming a union between the dwelling and the 
farm, in a manner somewhat similar to that by which 
a union between the house and ornamental grounds is 
maintained by means of architectural embellishments. 
At all events, a total absence of farm buildings would 
not be a pleasing sight on a fine and well cultivated 
farm, which should be conspicuous for all the comforts 
of home. Hence the true course, is obviously to im¬ 
prove those buildings, so that, at least partly visible 
through trees, they may add to, instead of defacing the 
scenery. 
With the object of calling attention to the archi¬ 
tecture of barns, we give a plan and view of a carriage 
house and horse barn, about to be erected by a gentle¬ 
man in the western part of the state. It is to be built 
in the Italian style, and will need only a small expen¬ 
diture for the completion of all its parts, above what is 
usually needed for buildings of this kind. In ‘the plan 
it will be seen, that one part is for carriages, and the 
other a stable for horses, with several closets for oats, 
harness, saddles, whips, curry-combs, carriage grease, 
&c. A part of these may be omitted, and more room 
left for carriages. 
The perspective view will be understood without 
much explanation. The part exibited is to face the 
dwelling, or the more frequented part; the back is most¬ 
ly hid by trees. There are two false doors on the 
stable part, to add to the appearance, the actual en¬ 
trance being near the corner. The chimney ventilator 
is an essential part. It should be remarked, that the 
brackets, doorframes, projecting eaves, &c., should all 
be made substantially, of two or three inch plank. 
In the plan, A is the room for carriages, B for horses, 
there being four stalls, the mangers C C containing two 
wpright semi-circular racks for hay. The passage D. 
for feeding horses, is three feet wide, and JE, three and 
a half. F is the entrance door to the stable, and G the 
manure door. The carriage-house doors H. H. are 
each 8 feet wide, consisting each of two four feet wide 
doors. The height. 15 feet, leaves a spacious chamber 
for hay, the larger entrance to which is nearly over the 
manure door, G } and not shown in the view. 
The cost will vary with the mode of finish, and the 
price of materials in different localities. Such a build- 
Fig. 16. 
ing may be cheaply constructed of rough plank, (pre¬ 
viously sawed of a uniform width,) placed perpendicu¬ 
larly, and battened on the joints, and colored by a wash 
of lime applied with a brush. This wash should be of 
a g re y, °r fawn color, or a medium between the two, 
made by adding portions of yellow ochre, Venetian red, 
and lamp-black, to common lime whitewash, and also 
dissolving in it a small quantity of salt and alum, to 
promote more perfect adhesion. A new coat should be 
given every year or two. The window and doorframes 
should be planed and painted. A better finish would 
be rough inch and a quarter or inch and a half plank, 
matched at the edges, and battened as before on the 
joints, and protected from the weather by oil paint, 
colored as just described, and applied to the rough sur¬ 
face. Such a surface, though needing considerable 
paint at first, will retain it remarkably, and need less 
afterwards. A still higher finish, requiring more cost¬ 
ly stuff for siding, and increasing the carpenter’s bill, is 
to plane the -whole surface, and cover it with three 
coats of oil paint. T. 
The Paulownia. —This new tree, it is well known, 
grows with extraordinary rapidity when young. A 
writer ^n the London Gardeners’ Chronicle, says, that 
in England, the young shoots which from their rapid 
and spongy growth, do not harden well, are killed at 
the extremities. He adds, u the original tree at Paris, 
which first flowered there, is thirty feet high, the 
branches about twenty feet in diameter, with a clean 
stem three feet in circumference, (one foot in diameter.) 
The leaves now, upon this tree, are about the size of 
those of the Catalpa, and the- shoots scarcely exceeding 
a foot in length, which of course ripen perfectly.” 
