THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



AUGUST 1st, 1840. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



OBSERVATIONS ON KEW BOTANIC GARDEN. 

 COPY of the Report made to the .Committee appointed by the 

 Lords of the Treasury in January, 1838, to inquire into the 

 Management, &c. of the Royal Gardens, by Dr. Lindley, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany, who, at the request of the Committee, made an 

 actual Survey of the Botanical Garden at Kew. Printed by 

 Order of the House of Commons in May, 1840. 



TrfB garden is situated on the south side of Kew Green, bounded 

 partly by the walls* of the royal forcing and kitchen garden, and 

 partly by what is called the pleasure-ground of Kew Palace. It is 

 reported in the official returns to occupy 15 acres, of which a part is 

 arboretum, and the remainder filled by stoves and green-houses, bor- 

 ders of herbaceous plants, spaces left for the arrangement of green- 

 house plants in the open air in summer, offices, yards, &c. 



The arboretum contains many very fine specimens of hardy exotic 

 trees and shrubs ; but the plants are too much crowded ; they are 

 mostly marked with labels, numbered, and referring to a private 

 catalogue in the garden. 



The collection of herbaceous plants appeared to be inconsiderable. 

 A certain number were marked with their names written on painted 

 sticks ; others were unnamed ; no systematical arrangement was 

 observable, with the exception of grasses, of which there is an exten- 

 sive collection named. 



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