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HYLAND Stylistically speaking, Fowler looked back to a fascinating antecedent, Palladio's unfinished villa of Counts Lodovico and Francesco Trissino at Meledo, incorporating, however, new theories of curvilinear greenhouses to create a central glass dome surmounted by a cupola. The new conservatory abounded in natural light and contained the latest innovations in heating, with four miles of piping! The Duke was deeply engaged in Fowler's project, and had the architect consult with Richard Forrest, head gardener and botanist, to divide the building into separate geographical rooms, one for New Holland (the name at that time for Australia); plants from the tip of South Africa; an east wing of African geraniums; a section for camellias from India and China. The central domed court was planted as a tropical house with palms and giant bamboo in pots and planters. So devoted was the Duke to botany that he sent his own ship across the world to collect specimens! From Nepal came orchids, from the Himalayas pine seeds; specimens arrived from destinations as distant as West Africa, Mexico, South America, Ceylon, India, the Philippines and the South Seas. When Richard Forrest published his Alphabetical Catalogue of Plants of Syon Garden in 1831, it contained some 3,000 species of hardy outdoor trees and plants and

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