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the Indian god Gaudama, or Gaudmia. Three Elizacethan beiichea. 

 each as long as one of the sides of the alcove, are placed so as to 

 disguise the doors. The external appearance of this alcove is 

 shown in Fig. 7. 



2, Ship-room, paved with slate, and with the walls finished in stucco, 

 and ceiling with beams painted like oak, to which are hung Indian 

 spears, and other curiosities, and serving to contain models of ships 

 and vessels of various sorts during winter. These are placed on 

 the pond in the summer season ; square-rigged vessels at fixed 

 anchorage, and the fore-and-aft-rigged ones, whose sails traverse, 

 such as schooners, cutters, and coasting vessels, with cables of 

 lengths to allow of their sailing without touching the edge of the 

 pond; and these continue constantly traversing the pond when there 

 is any wind. Tliis room also contains a variety of the warlike 

 instruments of the savages of different countries, a bust of Lord 

 Nelson, one of the Duke of Wellington, some pictures in mosaic, 

 and a number of East Indian curiosities. It serves also as a lobby 

 to the orangery. 



3, The orangery. The paths are of slate, and the centre bed, or pit, 

 for the orange trees, is covered with an open wooden grating, on 

 which are placed the smaller pots ; while the larger ones, and the 

 boxes and tubs, are let dovv-n through openings made in the grating, 

 as deep as it may be necessary for tlie proper effect of the heads 

 of the trees. This house, and that for Orchidaceae, are heated from 

 the boiler indicated at 61. 



i, Orchidaceous and fern house, in which a is the stage for Orchida- 

 CCEE, and b a cone of rockwork, chiefly of vitrified bricks, for ferns. 

 These ferns, amounting to above two dozen species, all sprang up 

 accidentally from the soil attached to some plants which were sent 

 to Mr. Harrison from Rio Janeiro and other parts of South America. 

 The shelves round the house are also occupied with Orchidaceae, all 

 of which are in pots, in order that, when they come into flower, 

 they may be removed to the green-house; as, when thus treated, as 

 practised by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, they continue 

 tav^h longer in bloom than when kept in the degree of heat 

 necessary for their growth. 



