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GUIDE TO THE 
perpetuate the memory of Carl Louis Schwendler as 
stated In the inscription. The Medallion on the obelisk 
was subscribed for and placed there by his fellow-coun¬ 
trymen in Calcutta. Immediately to the north of this 
plot of ground is the east entrance to 
The Andul House, 
which was erected by the late Rajah Bejoy Keshab Roy 
of Andul. It measures 180 feet in length, and 108 feet 
in breadth at the centre, and 60 feet in width at the 
sides. It is a light iron frame-work, somewhat cross-shaped, 
having a central transept, in the middle of which is a little 
pond filled with gold and silver fish, and from this point 
four broad paths diverge and wind round and among 
the clumps of foliage. The iron frame rests on a 
brick wall about three feet in height, internal to which 
is another wall of nearly the same height, the interval 
between the two being filled up with earth. A plat¬ 
form is thus formed which admits of a fine display of 
tropical vegetation. The high arched roof is supported 
throughout the interior of the building by slender iron 
pillars. Numerous beds of dwarf palms and other 
oriental forms of vegetation are tastefully distributed, 
the house having been laid out by Dr. King, the Superin¬ 
tendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, to whom the 
Calcutta public are largely indebted for the beautiful ar¬ 
rangement of land, water, and vegetation which makes 
this Garden one of the most effective and attractive 
efforts at landscape-gardening in India. The Andul 
House is built after the plan of the plant-houses in the 
Botanic Gardens, which are a development in iron of the 
