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Entrance lodges, and indeed all small ornamental build- 
ings, should be supported, and partially concealed, by trees 
and foliage ; naked walls, in the country, hardly admitting 
of an apology in any case, but especially when the building 
is ornamental, and should be considered part of a whole, 
grouping with other objects in rural landscape. 
Note. — To readers who desire to cultivate a taste for rural architecture, we 
take pleasure in recommending the following productions of the English press. 
Loudon’s Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, a volume 
replete with information on every branch of the subject ; Robinson’s Rural 
Architecture and Designs for Ornamental Villas ; Lugar’s Villa Archi- 
tecture ; Goodwin’s Rural Architecture ; Hunt’s Picturesque Domestic 
Architecture, and Examples of Tudor Architecture ; Pugin’s Examples of 
Gothic Architecture, etc. The most successful American architects in this 
branch of the art, with whom we are acquainted, are Alexander J. Davis, Esq., 
of New York, and John Notman, Esq., of Philadelphia. 
[Fig. 60. The Gardener’s House, Blithewood.] 
