AN ew ot nab af i j Y Pr 
1800.) Defcription of a Farm Yard-—New Botanical Garden. 
Matrimonial Service has been made ufe of, 
as I am authorized to celebrate marriage. 
There are great difturbances at Pittf 
burgh, on account of an excife. I appre- 
hend no evil of magnitude from them, 
though they may end, if prudence be 
wanting, in a feparation of the weltern 
country from the Union. Tate 
Lexington, Kentucky, Sept. 27, 1794+ 
— i ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
DESCRIPTION Of @ FARM-YARD3 
With a Plate. 
N the road from Bedford to Ampt- 
() hill lies a farm of 250 acres, called 
Hardwick-hill, belonging to S. Whit- 
bread, efq. It is fituated on the gentle flope 
of a hill, defcending to the fouth ; bound- 
ed on the north by the main road, and on 
the fouth by a {mall winding ftream. The 
foil is ftrong and clayey, with a {mall pro- 
portion of gravel; the Jand is nearly 
equally divided into arable and pafture ; 
the ftock of the farm principally theep. 
Nearly in the middle of the land is the 
farm-yard, of which the annexed plate 
fhews the plan. The north-weft range of 
buildings confilt of the houfe and offices, 
a cow-houfe, and two fhelter-hovels, one 
communicating with the horfe-yard, the 
other with the cow-yard. The north-eaft 
range contains ftables for eight cart-horfes 
and two faddle-horfes, feparated by a 
chaff-barn, a room for the farming imple- 
ments, a hen-houfe, and a range of pig- 
fties. The fouth-weft fide is appropriated 
to the barns, two of which have threfhing- 
floors of oak plank, the other floored with 
clay. The fouth-eaft fide is only occupied 
in the middle by a cart-fhed, on each fide 
of which are the farm-yard gates. The 
sranary is a detached building, raifed 
from the ground on brick piers. ‘The di- 
vifion of the yard is intothree; for horfes, 
cows, and fheep; the ftock are fupplied 
with water from a pump in the court-, 
yard, which fills a trough between the 
horfe and cow-yard. The yard flopes 
down to a refervoir, which is a brick tank 
20 feet long, 8 or 9 wide, and 5 feet 
deep, communicating by a drain with a 
a pit to receive the overflowings. 
Behind the houfe is a garden and or- 
chard, with «a yard and drying ground ; 
the rick-yard adjoins the barns. ‘The ap- 
proach is by aroad, jeaving the main road 
at a point nearly oppofite the houfe, and 

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running fouth-eaft at the back of the fa- 
bles, then turning weft to the rick-yard. 
The houfe, back-kitchen, and granary, 
are built of brick and ftud, and rough- 
caft ; the houfe flated. All the other 
buildings axe of quartering and weather- 
boarding. The eaft range is tiled, but 
the barns and cart-fhed are thatched. This 
may be confidered as a very complete plan; 
the buildings are well difpofed for the bu- 
finefs, and the appearance is uniform and 
agreeable; but it may be fugyefted, chat 
a lefs bleak fituation might have been found 
for the houfe and garden: if it had been 
placed where the barn now ftands, the gar- 
den and the back of the houfe would have 
enjoyed q fouth-weft expofure without at 
al] injuring the convenience of the plan. 
Te 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
A S you have frequently expreffed a 
mM 
with to receive communications re- 
lative to local hiftory, I have taken the 
liberty of fending you the following invi- 
tation to the inftitution of a Botanic Gar- 
den, which has been lately circulated in 
Liverpool. I am happy to inform you, 
that the number of fub({cribers is already 
fo great that there is no doubt of the 
completion of the {cheme. 

THE prevailing tafte for Botanical 
Studies, and the liberality difplayed by the 
inhabitants of Liverpool in the encourage- 
ment of {cientific purfuits, afford fufficient 
reafon to conclude, that the efablithment 
of a Botanical Garden in the neighbour 
hood of the town is at prefene a defirable’ 
and attainable object. To enlarge upon 
the advantages to be derived from bota- 
nical knowledge is not the obje& of this 
addrefs. It is prefumed that its applica- 
tion to agriculture, gardening, medicine, 
and other arts effential to the comfort and 
even fupport of life, is generally acknow- 
ledged. The claims which it has to our 
attention, when confidered merely as 
an elegant amufement, ought not to be 
neglected ; an amufement calculated to in- 
tereft the underftanding, whilft it pro. 
motes the health and vigour of the bodily 
frame. Even the cultivation of the fine 
arts, however alluring in its progrefs, and 
dignified in its objeét, muft yield the fu. - 
periority to the ftudy of nature; for who 
will venture to compare the mof faithed 
productions of the painter and the fculp- 
tor with the originals whence they «e- 
rived 
