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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



is certainly the ultimatum of improvements in gate lodges ; 

 and where it cannot be attained, something may still be 

 done towards amelioration, by placing the gate within a 

 convenient distance, instead of half a dozen rods apart 

 from the lodge, as is frequently done. 



That the entrance lodge should correspond in style with 

 the mansion, is a maxim insisted upon by all writers on 

 Rural Architecture. Where the latter is built in a mixed 

 style, there is more latitude allowed in the choice of forms 

 for the lodge, which may be considered more as a thing by 

 itself. But where the dwelling is a strictly architectural 

 composition, the lodge should correspond in style, and bear 

 evidence of emanating from the same mind. A variation 

 of the same style may be adopted with pleasing effect, as a 



[Fig. 62. Plan for opening the gate from the interior of the Lodge.] 



lodge in the form of the old English cottage for a castellated 

 niansion, or a Doric lodge for a Corinthian villa ; but never 

 two distinct styles on the same place (a Gothic gate-house 

 and a Grecian residence) without producing in minds 

 imbued with correct principles a feeling of incongruity. 

 A certain correspondence in size is also agreeable ; where 

 the dwelling of the proprietor is simply an ornamenta! 



wliich is opened and phut by the motion of the winch, without obliging tne 

 Bxmates to leave the house. 



