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€ Aer uy od on) belonging to His Majesty on the South and West 
he peer and Addition of so much of the 
said d Waste a divides the said Grounds ds, and of the Road from the said Common to 
Zl elled Brentford Ferry, would be a pics listers to the said Property 
18 ajes 
Across ds end of the Green so enclosed, the King erected a tall iron 
railing from the corner of the official tresidences on the north side of the 
Green (of which the most eastern had formerly been occupied by Meyer 
the miniature painter) to the corner of the present official residence of 
the Director. 
Evans (pp. 130, 131) in 1824, describes the Gates erected by 
George IV. 
“In the centre of Kew Green, his present Majesty has just erected large hand- 
ome iron gates, crowned with the lion and unicorn couchant, not altogether 
dissimilar to the grand entrance at Hampton Court. Iron pallisades also extend on 
oth si i 
a, 
The whole has an imposing effect, and may be pronouneed a distinguis shed 
vement.” 
The so-called Bird-cage Walk, эе its dwarf iron railings, was 
арыу outside George IV. s new fence. The lime trees were 
planted by John Smith about 1990. _ 
The Act provided that in eompensation to the parish, a new footway 
from Kew b reen to Brentford Ferry, along the river side, as we 
roads round Kew Green should be made, and that all the roads in the 
parish od in perpetuity, be maintained by the Crown. 
The Philosophical Magazine for 1824 contains (vol. vi. pp. 365-6) 
in a paper * On the cultivation: of Botany in England," by Professor 
Schultes of Landshut,an account of Kew about this time which is 
far from flattering :— 
“Lagas I met almost dail made some botanical excur- 
sions together: among other places, to the слага gardens at Kew. We did not 
Mr. Townsend Aiton, as he had been called away to Windsor; but in this well 
Göttingen Botanic Garden, =iperintondea by Schrader: sometimes the same species 
is marked with two different The garden at Kew consists of a fine park, and 
of a ro a php cal vie: n ү ‘about twenty acres. What we usually term a park in 
а comparison w 
Esterhazy at Eisenstadt, or even with the botanical division of the Imperial > ager 
at Schönbrunn. A supplement to the Hortus Kewensis, under the inspection of 
r Ro Brown, will soon be pu ublished: many species which were formerly 
von here are said to be lost." 
About 1823 when Professor Schultes visited Kew the aspect of the 
constituted the whole of the Botanic Garden and Arboretum puni have 
been very singular and totally different from what it is at prese It 
ted in fact of a series of inclosures surrounded with ЫР ‘alla 
-the greater portion of which have been since removed. 
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