Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1877-07-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FARMHOUSES.  Nothing ran maid, vary name widely Men the fashion different farmhouse. in differeat parts of the coun.y. They range from embodiment...if the sternest mom to idyllic rontanc... the pietn fancy but it is to be remarked that they are alinest invariably in keepieg with the character of the people, of the climate, of the dietrict end of their rural weround, inaa generally. Thus in North-Tarte. Scotland they are veverely martian/ Little sacrificed to Mow and beauty, althount there may be a certain compromise with the sestbstic ;when it can let adaget it without appreciable nee. There may be a straggling Inekground or hartly ter hTcler'"'ee is at iTof where a Mae of 0m.... round • ...klieg of fruit bush, and mme bola of the cummoaer vegetaddesi. There are pear or apple ...trained over.* ',ells pesibly even an ivy bush or a pleat or two of roses. alancoih that last are rare enough. As for tle walls, they are sufficieutly solid, as befits a regio• that. the winters are so inclement Wh.desale coertruction. aad reforma have of late years been proceeding apace on those Northern properties. Further to the sumh, is the A.M. of Perthshire, aed in the fertile Lothians. you find youreelf among • race of lertathen animater... Welbsimi mamma are scattered among the smaller homesteads, for thorn are fennel, there who pay relate of tiffoo, £tO, team 1•2,000 a year or more The large &etch farmer is en exmllent enamor of the groat egraeol• tend Implammininaker. He user steam plough. and mama effirmlingonachims, emingmachinte, reapingmnalloss, effiffierimbers, and all the rert mei yet he Imeses in Ins stables ae his father, aad • *las ray Mu& itt his pay. But as the femes neimiff 16,84 enclosures are carefully straightened, ami 4.7 bet of the ail b etonomim,l. a, in the aSpi.ef his architecture and in the erne,men. await Ida dwaliew he hae carefully studied tiff make the mai. eater:hem that art compatible with his mamma mood his position. The garden is inure for meth= pleaware- There o the merest strip at gram rammed by mot of a lawn there is but the maidiert allowance of ornamental timber : end though there lea wrap of ataa.proach leading up tc. the I,raas kackered door, it is angered in betwee. the sate and the turnip. A. for the limae, it is in the style of that. remy Presbyteria kirka whith me reared by the contributions of reluctaat herders- It i.dectdediy of the packiagnme order of architecture, with* couple , of windows on either side of the antrum ad with. out the eemblence of a but window or • gable to break the lades. of the elevation. In the Border country, egaia you are conscious of • difference- Them the boa,a are satentally m grim as thee further north, tat aecaaauuflaca.pa,te.ahcybsaa wet or sunny weather, ndthmg can well be no...forbidding, and a strauger feels that a permanent team, .4 them might at any moment!. aleruptly terminated by suicide. But in the bright summer days the grey male and the yelher lichens on the weather-beaten roofs light up cheerfully while the bare turf at the eurrompling hills, relieved le the patches of gulden gorte,, Mica. the warm brilliancy of the sunshine. Happily 0. er-cultivation is out of the question in that mom, and nattual beauties are not to be cruehed and tomer the pr... of the phiab tad the harrow. There. no draining away the abounding stream that breaks ad tlash. at the fm. of the knolls, oeor the betide. Mat artcw it. bed between baaffit enamelled bzzcild ae.ffiwers. M lah ~4"ithatir,oclear, glira, anoet feel tlyth.aue might esaily make shift to rough it there late it.. b • ••-•  weemos ow ...won.. It is in the Southern English cs untin, however, that we find those farmhouses where the nsupanta venture to adverbee for summer lodger., or seek to tempt city gentlemen and single ladies nu, offete of bewitching rural retirement. In the sem of many f thaw (