KEW GARDENS 



ROYAL RESIDENCES 



THE most conspicuous feature of Kew is its 

 Pagoda, from many points seen towering over 

 the well-wooded flat watered by a winding reach 

 of the Thames. Such an outlandish structure 

 bears up the odd name in giving a suggestion of 

 China, not contradicted by the elaborate cultiva- 

 tion around, where all seems market-garden that 

 is not park, buildings, groves or flower-beds. 

 Yet the name, of old written as Kaihough, 

 Kaiho, Kayhoo, and in other quaint forms for 

 which quay of the howe or hough has been 

 guessed as original belongs to a thoroughly 

 English parish, whose exotic vegetation, nursed 

 upon a poor soil, came to be twined among 

 many national memories. These, indeed, are 

 most closely packed about what may be called 



