APPENDIX. 
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The following are the details of the farmyard, garden offices, and hot- 
houses, as exhibited in Fig. 6 
1, Rustic alcove, forming a recess under a thatched roof, which covers 
the space from the green-house, 3, to the houses or yards, 70, 71, and 
72. This rustic alcove has the floor paved with small pebbles, and the 
sides and ceiling lined with young fir-wood, with the bark on. There 
is a disguised door on the right, which leads to 69, a house for grinding- 
mills and other machines ; and on the left, which leads to 2, the ship- 
room. In the upper part of the central compartment, in a square re- 
cess fronting the entrance, is a white marble statue of the Indian god 
Gaudama, or Gaudmia. Three Elizabethan benches, 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, cut- 
ters 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. This room also contains 
a variety of the warlike instruments of the savages of different coun- 
tries, a bust of Lord Nelson, one of the Duke of Wellington, some 
pictures in mosaic, and a number of East Indian curiosities. L 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 down through openings made in the grating, as deep as it may 
be necessary for the proper effect of the heads of the trees. This house, 
and that for OrchidacesB, are heated from the boiler indicated at 61. 
4, Orchidaceous and fern house, in which a is the stage for Orchida- 
cese, and b a cone of rockwork, chiefly of vitrified bricks, for ferns. 
These ferns, amounting to above two dozen species, all sprang up ac- 
cidentally from the soil attached to some plants which were sent to Mr. 
Harrison from Rio Janeiro and other parts of South America. The 
