Kew Gardens: The Pleasure Grounds and Park. Hand-book Guide for VisitorsJ. Martin, 1887 - 16 pages |
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Kew Gardens: The Pleasure Grounds And Park. Hand-book Guide For Visitors Royal Gardens Kew No preview available - 2023 |
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Back 1 Peter beautiful walk centre Chinese Cloak Room colour Commissioners of Woods Conservatory Corinthian order decorated with lyres delightful DENMAN STREET Deodars designed by Sir diameter discovered by Dr Dowager of Wales eight fluted columns enter ENTRANCE erected Factory Midden family of plants feet 6 inches fern flagstaff foliage fronds GIFT OF CHARLES gigantic leaves Godivari Cork Back graceful hardy exotic height HERBACEOUS hundred feet Ind-mortar-Rice Godivari Cork KEW GREEN King William IV lake laurel sprigs lily Mahoge main walk MINDEN Modal Indige Factory MUSEUM noble trees noble walk ORCHIDEOUS HOUSE ornamental building Pagoda palace Palm House Parterre Pitcher Plant PLANT HOUSE PLEASURE GROUNDS portions being richly Rafflesia Arnoldi Rici ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS shrubs side Sion House SION VISTA Sir William Chambers SMOKE TOWER South species specimens stem surrounding trees TEMPERATE FERNERY TEMPLE terrace Thames timber Toys-Saxony Tree-Ferns tropical vegetable forms Victorce VICTORIA HOUSE Victoria Regia visitor Zweigen
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Page 3 - So sits enthroned in vegetable pride Imperial Kew by Thames's glittering side ; Obedient sails from realms unfurrow'd bring For her the unnamed progeny of spring...
Page 12 - Indeed, the worthiness of the tree must have been the cause of those honours. Rearing its stem, and expanding its broad and beautiful shade where there is nothing else to shelter man from the burning rays of the sun, the palm-tree is hailed by the wanderer in the desert with more pleasure than he hails any other tree in any other situation. Nor is it for its shade alone, or even for its fruit, that the palm is so desirable in that country ; for, wherever a little clump of palms contrast their bright...
Page 11 - Mr. D. Burton, and commenced in 1845, under the directions of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. This vast structure, which is chiefly composed of wrought-iron beams and glass, consists of a rectangular central part, 137 feet 6 inches in length, and 100 feet wide; with projecting wings, each of which is 112 feet 6 inches long, and 50 feet in width : the entire length is 362 feet 6 inches in the clear. The height of the central portion is 63 feet, exclusive of the lantern, which...
Page 12 - ... directions of the Commissioners of her Majesty's woods and forests. This vast structure, which is chiefly composed of wrought-iron beams and glass, consists of a rectangular central part, 137 feet 6 inches in length, and 100 feet wide; with projecting wings, each of which is 112 feet 6 inches long, and 50 feet in width : the entire length is 362 feet 6 inches in the clear. The height of the central portion is 63 feet, exclusive of the lantern, which rises 6 feet : the height of each wing is 27...
Page 5 - It is a dwarf tree, seldom rising more than a few inches above the ground, with a diameter often of several feet, and a single pair of leaves, usually torn to ribands, which spring from the margin of the trunk and persist through the lifetime of the plant, which is estimated to reach 100 years.
Page 6 - Tropics, and includes plants of the most different forms and magnitude, from gigantic masses of vegetable matter, weighing upwards of a ton, to species so small as to get between the toes of a dog. Some are vegetable fountains, others yield wood that is incorruptible. The plants composing it are leafless, and the stem, which is developed in the most varied and eccentric shapes, apparently to supply the place of foliage, presents a character little according with our ideas of plants at all ; it almost...
Page 12 - The palms are the loftiest and noblest of all vegetable forms, they have been characteristically called '• Kings among the Grasses :" and to them the prize of beauty has been assigned by the concurrent voices of all nations. Their tall, slender, ringed, and in some cases prickly ;. ! , 2.
Page 10 - Seeds, in short all interesting vegetable products, particularly those that are useful to mankind in the Arts, in Medicine, and in Domestic Economy ; substances which neither the living plant nor the-Aortus siccus can exhibit.
Page 3 - Burton, the architect of the Gardens. The piers are of Portland stone, -with moulded and sunk panels ; those of the large piers contain elaborately carved falls of flowers and fruit ; the frieze is also enriched with swags of flowers.