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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
is certainly the ultimatum of improvements in gate lodges ; 
and where it cannot be attained, something may still be 
done towards amelioration, by placing the gate within a 
convenient distance, instead of half a dozen rods apart 
from the lodge, as is frequently done. 
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 
[Fig. 56. Plan for opening the gate from the interior of the Lodge.] 
lodge in the form of the old English cottage for a castellated 
which is opened and shut by the motion of the winch, without obliging tno 
inmates to leave the house. 
A very convenient way we have found of opening a gate from a lodge, when 
at right angles to each other, is by posing a light chain from the latch of the gate 
through the walls of the house into the usual sitting-room— here to turn on a 
crank, or simply pulled hand over hand, as the sailors term it. The gate 
being hung a little out of plumb, is held open from the house, by the chain, 
until a carriage passes, and falls back again, from its own inclination, against a 
jog, or projection in the gate-pier to receive it. — H. W. S. 
