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tance of several feet from a walk, that persons may pass by 

 without interrupting them, or incurring the danger of being 

 stung. 



6. The Gate Lodge. — Although the old-fashioned notion 

 of a porter's lodge at the entrance gate of a private place has 

 fallen into disfavor in America, and although lodges will sel- 

 dom be needed in a small place, it may be well to offer a few 

 suggestions respecting them with an eye to cases in which 

 they may be legitimately introduced. Unless a drive is long 

 enough to carry the entrance so far from the house that the 

 lodge would not be seen from it, the erection of a lodge at 

 all will be in very questionable taste, for one of the first 

 requisites is that it should not come into view from the win- 

 dows. 



The smaller the place and the shorter the drive, the more 

 quiet, modest, and low should be the entrance lodge. Some- 

 times however in peculiar situations the ofi&ces of the house 

 or other buildings may be so lengthened out that the lodge 

 will form a portion of the entire group, when it may prop- 

 erly have an upper as well as lower floor. In general 

 however it should be all on one floor and ought always to 

 correspond with the style of the house, being rather plainer 

 in its character than more ornamental. It must likewise 

 blend with the entrance gates and gate piers in its character 

 and fittings. 



A lodge should be so placed as to command the best view 

 of the gates to which it must be near enough to appear to 

 belong to them; and it should also overlook as much of the 

 outside road and of the drive as possible. For this last 

 reason it is better to put it on the inner side of the curve 

 which the drive may take where this is at all practicable. 

 A few flowers and flowering shrubs around a lodge will be 

 proper accompaniments to it as a dwelling and will make it 



