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appear lively and pleasant. There should not be any regular 

 garden attached to it however. A small porch with climb- 

 ers where the style will allow it is always pretty, cottage- 

 like, useful, and attractive. Even a plain covered way round 

 two or three of its sides supported by rude pillars for climb- 



Fig. 66. Gate Lodge and Entrance. 



ing plants will be a congenial and delightful feature in 

 summer. 



The position of a lodge and the form which wing walls to 

 an entrance may assume will receive additional illustration 

 from the examples now to be adduced. Fig. 66 shows the 

 entrance to an exceedingly delightful place in the valley of 

 the Lune, about three miles above Lancaster, which I ar- 

 ranged for Adam Hodgson, Esq., of Liverpool. The house 

 is planted on the spot which has been aptly described by 

 the poet Gray as presenting "one of the best afternoon views 



