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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
That the entrance lodge should correspond in style with 
the mansion, is a maxim insisted upon by all writers on 
Rural Architecture. Where the latter is built in a mixed 
style, there is more latitude allowed in the choice of forms 
for the lodge, which may be considered more as a thing by 
itself. But where the dwelling is a strictly architectural 
composition, the lodge should correspond in style, and bear 
evidence of emanating from the same mind. A variation of 
the same style may be adopted with pleasing effect, as a lodge 
in the form of the old English cottage for a castellated man- 
sion, or a Doric lodge for a Corinthian villa ; but never two 
distinct styles on the same place, (a Gothic gate-house and a 
Grecian residence,) without producing in minds imbued with 
correct principles, a feeling of incongruity. A certain cor- 
respondence in size is also agreeable ; where the dwelling of 
the proprietor is simply an ornamental cottage, the lodge, if 
introduced, should be more simple and unostentatious ; and 
even where the house is magnificent, the lodge should rather 
be below the general air of the residence than above it, that 
the stranger who enters at a showy and striking lodge may 
not be disappointed in the want of correspondence between it 
and the remaining portions of the demesne. 
