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GENERAL FORMATION, &c, OF GARDENS. 



railing garden entrance gates, which 

 would be suitable for an architectural 

 wall. The principal objection, however, 

 to such gates is the draught of cold air 

 which they admit, and which closely- 

 framed wooden ones exclude. In former 

 times great taste was displayed in the 

 formation of wrought-iron garden gates : 

 they have, however, disappeared along 

 with the architectural and geometrical 

 style, as being out of keeping with the 

 simplicity of the modern manner. But 

 to such extremes has this reformation 

 been carried, that the splendid gates of the 

 olden gardens have long since given place 

 to mere holes in the walls, often scarcely 

 sufficiently wide to admit a wheelbarrow. 



Fig. ] 7 represents a design for a gate- 

 way in connection with a castellated man- 

 Fig. 17. 



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sion ; and fig. 18 one for a gateway and 

 porter's lodge, in connection with a man- 

 sion of a highly architectural character, 

 a showing the elevation, and b the ground- 

 plan. 



The principal entrance to the new 



Fig. 18. 



garden at Poltalloch is in quite a differ- 

 ent style from those already noticed. In 

 proceeding from the mansion, a carriage- 

 drive leads to the centre of the west 

 front of the kitchen garden. (1.) It is 

 proposed that the extensive wire fence at 

 that point should be furnished with a 

 wrought-iron gate, and an arched pas- 

 sage of trellis- work, covered with roses 

 and climbing plants, as far as the walk 

 which separates the slip from the fruit- 

 tree borders. The intention of this 

 covered walk is to hide the crops in the 

 slips, and to prevent the eye from being 

 attracted by any side-view objects until 

 it is brought to bear on the whole of the 

 principal garden and hothouses at once. 

 An architectural stone entrance might 



have been preferred by some, as associat- 

 ing better with the mansion, although at 

 a considerable distance from it and com- 

 pletely out of view ; and such, no doubt, 

 would have had a much more imposing 

 appearance. But as there is no building 

 immediately near it, such as walls, offices, 

 &c, there would have been a want of con- 

 nection, which does not now exist, as the 

 iron gate and iron fence form the proper 

 connection with each other, as well as 

 with the surrounding objects. 



§ 9. — SHELTER. 



Shelter is necessary in most situations ; 

 and to effect this artificially without pro- 



