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the labour of one man the whole is an extraordinary performance, e I was told 
the decrepid draughtsman derives a competency from passing traveller. 
In 1825 Evans (р. 32) says they were * nearly obliterated.” 
HIMALAYAN RHODODENDRONS. 
The frst Himalayan Rhododendron was introduced in 1818. Smith 
(Records, р. 298) says :— 
*In 1818 Dr. Wallieh forwarded to this dh d seeds of Rhododendron 
arboreum, native of Nepal, which were reared in the Botanic aere Kew and 
Edinburgh. The seeds came up abundantly, Жы by over-heat th deco breed aan 
x and on my leaving Edinburgh in 1820 Mr, Pus x sent to plants b о 
were then about 3 inches high; they were grown in the p eenhouse ; 
n 1803 they iik taken to the Temperate. House, iM the etes is now (1889) a 
es tree 23 igh." 
` In 1820 Todi. 11. died. During the time he was on the throne 
the botanical exploration and horticultural activity, of which Kew was 
the centre, was not merely unpar s wees but from the nature of Wawa 
never can be paralleled again. Evans (pp. 123, 124) in 1824 s 
it up numerically, though he does not say on what authority :— 
The present royal чыты La pet attached to the study of botany, his late 
Majesty bestowed much a ttention e Garden at Kew, and had the satisfaction 
of es the example which he ia сане with such ardour by his subjects, that 
“not than six thousand seven hundre s nd forty-six rare exotic plants were 
собна nto these Kingdoms during his reign, and exotic beauties are now seen 
blended with our verdure in every corner of у. island." 
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Kew Parace (OLD). 
After the reign of George IIT. Kew ceased, practically, to be a royal 
residence. The so-called palace, a mere gentleman’s mansion of the 
17th century, remains, though uninhabited. Its history is not free from 
obseurity. But the following account embodies what эы лнн to be 
a trustworthy. 
e following is on the authority of ce (p. 15). A mansion 
called | Suffolk ass by some Suffolk P 
“jis mentioned in a court v of the ig ө que) wt ed чер of Quee 
Elizabeth ; bnt i" dat. ака t had been pulled d yed. This, in “all 
кани was vm pee of isis ide of onera Brandon, De kom at Suffolk. This 
nobleman's third wife was the Princess Mary, who was sister to Henry VIII., and 
had "wem oie а ака to Louis ХП. of oe whose widow she was up tc - 
ime of her marriage with t Suffol says 
. that the ho me Po erected in the time of Hen VIL, bat many years before 
he wrote, and * according to report, by a steward of the household.’ 
ws e spam die through the pepe noes at Kew,” p. 4), 
se — 
{ would seem that several pepe akg of great extent and some magnificen 
i near the present entrance to the Royal Gardens. One called Suffolk Place 
was occupied by a Sir John е час held the office of Lord Keeper of the 
Great Seal.” 
—— says (p. 16) that Sir John Puckering entertained Queen 
zabeth in м» house at Kew in 1594. He could not therefore have 
inkubited Arig oe < ee was pulled down in 1566. 
he a t Kew t have consisted of a number of substantial 
houses, of which the Old Palace 3 is the last survivor, which were clustered 
about the Horse Ferry. Two roads met here, both of which were 
porta 
dant on it. The other road ran in inet of the present Palace tl 
Sd ow 6 ae to Mortlake: 
