RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



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Entrance lodges, and indeed all small ornamental build- 

 ings, should be supported, and partially concealed, by trees 

 and foliage ; naked walls, in the country, hardly admitting 

 of an apology in any case, but especially when the building 

 is ornamental, and should be considered part of a whole, 

 grouping with other objects in rural landscape. 



NOTE. To readers who desire to cultivate a taste for rural architecture, we 

 take pleasure in recommending the following productions of the English press. 

 London's Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, a volume 

 replete with information on every branch of the subject ; Robinson's Rural 

 Architecture and Designs for Ornamental Villas ; Lugar's Villa Archi~ 

 lecture; Goodwin's Rural Architecture ; Hunt's Picturesque Domestic 

 Architecture, and Examples of Tudor Architecture ; Pugin's Examples of 

 Gothic Architecture, etc. The most successful American architects in this 

 branch of the art, with whom we are acquainted, are Alexander J. Davis, Esq., 

 of New York, and John Notman, Esq., of Philadelphia. 



[Fig. 60. The Gardener's House, Blithewood.] 



