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there will be one for carriages, and two for foot passengers, 

 will be of similar material. The drive is straight only in so 

 far as it passes through an old plantation which is kept as 

 an enclosure. After leaving this it will curve gently to the 

 right across the park to the hall. 



In each of the plans thus given the lodge is supplied in its 

 rear with a small enclosed yard containing the usual con- 

 veniences. All the lodges are on one floor only and all are 

 more or less embosomed in trees. 



Double lodges, one on either side of entrance gates, have a 

 great air of pretension about them and can seldom be justi- 

 fied by necessity. The only way, indeed, in which they can 

 be rendered tolerable is by connecting them with a central 

 archway or otherwise working them up with the aid of walls 

 into one group; the lodges themselves being partly thrust 

 out beyond the walls. Even then, however, their use is very 

 questionable unless the entrance to a place should happen 

 to terminate the street of a town or village, when two lodges 

 corresponding in position and character may possibly be 

 made effective. 



7. Seaside Gardens. — Certain localities in the neighbor- 

 hood of the seacoast are so liable to a visitation of violent 

 gales, bringing with them such quantities of saline matter, 

 that scarcely anything in the way of trees and shrubs can be 

 induced to live in them, much less to become ornamental. 

 And where, as is frequently likewise the fact, the surface of 

 the land is covered solely with sterile sands, which, unless 

 clothed with vegetation, are constantly shifting their posi- 

 tion, it is the more important that some definite rule of 

 treatment should be established which shall at least help to 

 mitigate or remedy the evil, and give a special sort of interest 

 to a place. This renders it proper, therefore, to devote a few 

 words separately to seaside gardens. 



