Kew Gardens

Figure 4.7 Sunset Swing at Kew Gardens. Crackling palm shells. (Courtesy of Pains Fireworks Ltd.)...

CM Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Ferry Lane, Kew Gardens, Surrey TW9 3AF,UK... 

From the fifteenth century onwards, the major European powers were sending plant collectors to scour the world for new, exotic plants and the number of species that were accessible to herbalists and physicians increased. The great rmiversities began to assemble plant collections in Botanical Gardens and some royal collections were also established, the best known perhaps being Kew Gardens in London. The reasons... 

Zones", Wickens, 6. Ed., Kew Garden Publications, London, 1984 (in press). 

For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens. 

He can give a matter-of-fact recitation of many murders. But the Kew Gardens slaying baffles him—not because it is a murder, but because the good people failed to call the police. 

I, 5 (1955) xxv—cxliv (brief survey of the moat important botanical literature), the Current Awareness List monthly issued by the Kew Gardens. Go back to step 3. 

Nigel-Hepper, F. (1982). Kew Gardens for Science and Pleasure. Fondon Her Majesty s Stationary Office. 

Kew Gardens in Virginia Woolf, Selected Short Stories, ed. Sandra Kemp... 

Hogarth Press publishes Kew Gardens (12 May). Buys Monks House in Rodmell (i July), moves in (i September). Duckworth publishes Night and Day (20 October). 

Conservatory at Chatsworth was considered a contemporary marvel, and Paxton was firmly established as an engineer in practice and in spirit if not in name, for his Great Conservatory was to serve as a model for the Great Palm House in Kew Gardens, the Royal Botanic Gardens near London, and he was to go on to create many other structures of his own. 

It was into one of the heated tanks at Chatsworth that Paxton first placed a cutting of a giant water lily obtained from Kew Gardens. The seeds had been brought back from tropical British Guiana in 1837, but the plant did not thrive at Kew. Under Paxton s care, however, the plant developed the huge leaves and beautiful flowers characteristic of such lilies. He named the flower Victoria regia (now properly called Victoria amazonica, since the plant had been so named before Paxton s involvement with it) and presented a bud to the queen. 

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