THE STORY OF THE GARDENS 99 



It has already been told how George III. 

 enlarged the demesne at Kew, buying up 

 some fields about the site of the Pagoda, and 

 eventually getting the lane closed that separated 

 it from the Richmond grounds. The Botanic 

 Garden proper was enclosed and managed 

 apart from the general pleasure-grounds, within 

 which seem to have been dioceses or spheres of 

 influence looked after by different employes. 

 It is not quite clear to me how these gardeners 

 were ranked or related ; perhaps, as in the case 

 of higher officials, their functions may some- 

 times have clashed, or been complicated by 

 royal favour. Mrs. Papendiek records that in 

 her time Haverfield was the King's gardener, 

 who lived at Kew, his second son acting as his 

 assistant there, as did an elder son in the more 

 remote Richmond .garden ; and that after him 

 the sons succeeded to these appointments. She 

 also mentions the Queen's flower garden up 

 Richmond Lane, where one Green was the 

 gardener, who had nursed some orange trees 

 to be the pride of his life, but was heart-broken 

 when they dwindled for want of means to 

 enlarge his hothouses, though he offered to 

 pay half the cost out of his own pocket. This 



