April 1. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
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case, the ground in front is all, or nearly all, that can be 
devoted to dowers, the possibility of having a rod or two of 
private garden is wholly out of the question. To such 
houses I would, as a general rule, have but one. carriage 
entrance, and where the space is very confined, and the dis¬ 
tance from the house to the main road only a few yards, I 
would have none at all. The idea of placing two heavy 
gates within a rod or so of the windows of a residence, and 
then covering the space between the front of the house and 
the main road with gravel, and calling it a carriage drive, 
appears to me ridiculous. It is, however, of very frequent 
occurrence; and it is no exaggeration to say, that in many 
instances w here a carnage is at the door, the horses heads 
are at one gate, and the wheels of the vehicle at the other. 
And, then, the style of gate, too, which is commonly met 
with in such places! Appropriateness, most assuredly, never, 
I or hut very rarely, can be recognised in the design. A pre¬ 
vailing character is one which partakes largely of the 
I ecclesiastical; or, perhaps, it would he nearer the truth to 
say, that very many such gates, especially those attached to 
recently-erected houses, are hybrids, partaking of tlie con 
joint styles of a field-gate and a mediaeval church door; and 
this, perhaps, at the entrance of a villa affecting the Grecian 
style of architecture. 
When the space between the front of tlie house and the 
main road is very confined, it would certainly be much more 
appropriate if treated as part of the garden, with a simple 
pathway leading from the gate to the entrance-door. Rut if 
a covered way were deemed necessary to compensate for not 
having tlie carriage drive directly to the door, a modification 
of the conservatory may be introduced. Such a structure 
would form a very agreeable addition to a residence, and 
would at all times furnish a delightful promenade. It could 
he kept gay with dowering-plants nil the year through, like 
an ordinary conservatory, or be merely used as a receptacle 
for Orange-trees and Camellias. In either case, there would 
be much scope for the exercise of taste in the arrange¬ 
ment, and of consequent gratification in contemplating the 
result. 
But to return to the subject of entrance lodges. Much 
has been said and written with regard to the style in which 
they should lie built, whether corresponding with the re¬ 
sidences to which they belong or not; and, as a natural 
consequence, where a great diversity of opinion exists on 
any subject that admits of practical illustration, many ab¬ 
surdities have, been committed. Sometimes we find two 
brick-boxes, each of some six or eight feet squai'p, one on 
either side of the gate doing duty as a lodge. In otbpr 
instances, mimic castles, with towers and battlements, and 
even the imitations of the loop-holes for musketry, glazed 
as windows, have been adopted, and this, by the way, is a 
style of architecture largely patronised. Then, again, we 
have lodges of no particular style at all, and one is at a loss 
to know how to describe them, except by saying that they 
are made up of an infinity of roofs, hugh chimney-pots, and 
J projecting verandas, supported by rustic pillars, covered 
with creeping plants, purposely placed so as to darken all 
the windows. In default of any of these, the patron of 
severe simplicity ornaments his entrance with a diamond 
edition of a plain labourer’s cottage. But however much 
tlie majority of lodges may differ in external appearance, 
they generally agree in their interior arrangements, by 
being as confined and inconvenient as possible. In fact, 
tlie object aimed at, in the majority of lodges, would seem 
to be to make their exteriors as fantastic as possible, and to 
forget they are to be inhabited by human beings. In a 
word, thpy lack one quality rather necessary to them ns 
dwellings—that of being fit to live in. 
It has been frequently urged that the entrance lodge 
should be of the same style of architecture as the house to 
which it leads the way; this, however, I conceive, requires 
considerable qualification. If we consider the lodge in its 
original aspect, as the porter’s residence attached to a 
mansion in the feudal times, it is obvious enough that it 
should correspond with the building of which it, formed a 
part. But now that an entire change has come over tlie 
domestic arrangements of the inhabitants of such a mansion, 
and the porter’s lodge becomes, not only a detached build¬ 
ing, but is removed, perhaps, a mile or two distant, there 
| can be no necessity for adopting a style of architecture 
which rarely admits of convenient arrangement in the con¬ 
fined space of a labourer’s cottage, which a modern lodge 
in reality is. If the style of the mansion is such as to 
admit of a convenient cottage being selected in accordance 
with it, there can, of course, be no objection to adopting it, 
but it. need never be imperative, except in occasional in¬ 
stances where a sort of compromise is made between the 
ancient porter’s lodge, and tlie modern lodge entrance, such 
as are occasionally met with attached to old or rebuilt 
mansions in which the ancient arrangement is preserved. 
Then a uniformity of style should, of course, be a recog¬ 
nised principle. 
A lodge should be designed in accordance with the pur¬ 
pose for which it is intended, i.-c., a residence for a person to 
attend to the gate. It should be tasteful in exterior and 
convenient within. Very few of what are called ornamental 
cottages combine these two essentials. Convenience is 
almost invariably sacrificed to ornament. A style of cottage 
architecture lias yet to be adopted, in which the useful and 
the ornamental shall combine, without in any way being 
antagonistic to each other,—G. Lovell, Landscape Gardener, 
Bagskol. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Nymph.ea Amazon cm (Amazonian Water-Lily). 
A very pretty, night-flowering species of Water-Lily). 
Flowers yellowish-white, and fragrant. It is a native of 
Jamaica. ( Botanical Magazine t. 4828.) 
/Esehynanthus kttt.oens (Flame■<otonml JFschyiiantlnis). 
Natural Order Gesnerworts (Gesnrracew), Didynamia 
Angiospermin. of Linmeus. This stove species is a native : 
of Moulmein, whence it was sent to Messrs. Yeite.h by their 
collector, Mr. T. Lobb. It flowered here in October 1865, 
ami is very beautiful, especially when grown suspended in a 
wire basket. Flowers yellow and scarlet. (Ibid. t. 4891.) ; 
L.APAOF.RIA ROSEA, rw. Al.Birr.ORA (White flowered variety of 
L. rosea). 
Natural Order Pliilesiads (Philesiacetr), Linmean Hex- 
andria Monogynia. This was introduced in the Jardin des 
Plantes, at Paris, by M. Abadi, from Chili, Flowers cream- 
coloured. Like the species of which it is a variety, we think 
it will flourish in a moist, cool greenhouse. (Ibid. t. 4892.) | 
Tf.COMA FUT.VA (Yellow and crimson Trcoma). 
This is the Biynnnia fnlra of some botanists. It belongs 
to the Natural Order Bignoniads, and to Didynamia A agios 
permia of Linntetts. It is a native of Peru, and was bloomed 
by Messrs. Yeitch in November 1866. It is a very hand¬ 
some stove plant. (Ibid. t. 489(1.) 
Dendrobium eioibbum ( Two-spurred Dendrohc). 
This Orchid lias very handsome, deep lilac-coloured 
flowers. It bloomed at Messrs. Loddiges in November i 860 . 
Pr. Thomson found it on Mount Adolphus, Torres Straits, I 
on the north-east coast of New Holland. “Being a native 
of the tropics, it requires greater heat in cultivation than 
most Australian Orchids.” (Ibid. t. 4898 .) 
Apiielandra VARTF.gata ( Variegated Aphelandra). 
Natural Order Aeanthads (Acanthaeete), Didynamia An- 
giosjirrmia of Linn tens. A beautiful stove plant, native of 
Brazil, introduced by Messrs. Yeitch. Flower-spikes brilliant 
orange-red, from which issue bright yellow flowers. I,eaves 
large, deep green, and striking. (Jbiil. t. 4899.) 
CyPRTPEOIUM PfRPURATUM (Purple stained Lady's Slipper.) 
“ Tt, is a lovely Orchid, whether the size and beauty of 
the flowers, or the mottled foliage be considered. It is a 
native of the Malay Archipelago, and flowers during 
November in a damp stove." (Ibid. f. 4901.) 
