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PABKS AND PLEASUKE-GEOUNDS. 



is most advantageously set down at the end of one of 

 the leading roads or principal streets. "When it is 

 removed to the outskirts of the town, or to a distance 

 from its natural locality, for the purpose of securing a 

 long approach, it is apt to suggest the ideas of artifice 

 and unnecessary straining after effect. 



Note. — The site of the entrance to a fine park should 

 not strike off abruptly from the highway, as if by 

 accident. It should be withdrawn from immediate 

 contact with the main traveled road, by throwing out 

 a sufficient area of the grounds to common use, to 

 render the approach to the gateway easy and natural. 

 No stint of room, or parsimony in wall, should indi- 

 cate any thing but a liberal appropriation, in all that 

 concerns the proprietor. The entrance should look 

 inviting ; and that can never be when the gate and 

 the walls adjoining it are pinched up close up to the 

 line of the highway, or turn at a short angle in a 

 dodging direction, like the hole of a fox, as if in fear 

 that some one should find it. There should be quite 

 as much an expression of dignity and character in the 

 entrance to the park, as in that of the grounds and 

 buildings within it. — En. 



Style of the Gate and Lodge should be regu- 

 lated by the extent and character of the residence as 

 a whole. The common rule has been, that the style 

 of the lodge and gate should follow exactly that of 

 the mansion-house. Perhaps there is no absolute 

 necessity that it should be so, particularly when the 

 buildings supposed to be compared stand at the dis- 

 tance of one or two miles from each other ; neverthe- 

 less, there should be no mailed opposition between 

 the respective styles. A Grecian lodge and gate will 



