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ARBORETUM. 
The Arboretum, which was the most northern шш was about five 
acres in extent. John Smith (Records, p. 260) sa 
though the area was small, it was a remarkable spot ge entering, эм всепе 
pi PN id the idea of its being the intere of a large forest crowded with und: 
s the resort of hundreds of birds.’ 
ES ine was "jo eue bya6 fe 30% walk.” (Smith, р. 258.) 
In 1823 * the general collection was about fifty or sixty years old ; 
* the average size of the trees being 40 to 50 feet high." Many о 
them, as has already been stated, came from the garden at Whitton of 
Archibald 3rd Duke of Argyll. 
ear the Temple of the Sun, which was about the centre of the whole 
t tender species were planted against the walls. The fine 
Salisburia adiantifolia was so trained ; it is now а tall tree. “ When 
* against the wall one of its side branches early на абда male flowers.” 
The old existing specimen of Buxus balearica was also on a wa 
William ТУ. in 1830 “removed the west and north boundary walls 
of the Aboretum. By so doing, the winds had freedom to play their 
part, and from time to time many fine trees were blown down.” (Smith, 
Records, p. 260. 
The latter wall had been the boundary wall dividing the Royal 
Gardens from the public road to Brentford Ferry 
Deopar. 
Smiths says (Records, p. 287) :— 
“Cedrus Deodara is recorded in pe books to have been introduced in 1822; ns 
ce ims ses such hap at ah been the case, but on — of the long voyages s and 
of packing n appear to have vegetated; the first that did so, were 
mei hn by the How: Leslie Melville, in the year ase 1, who on visiting the 
—— gave me a few -— which v had loose in his pocket, one of which те 
after several years nursing was planted in the old Arboretum wher 
етй; In 1864 it had attained a height of 32 feet, girth 4 feet 5 inches, t 2 feet 
from the ground, and spread of branches 28 feet.’ 
ee became unhealthy and was taken down a few years ago. 
Near its former position is one, now nearly as large e raised from seed, 
комы | in England, by Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. 
HERBACEOUS GROUND. 
The Herbaceous ground was south of the Arboretum. In it grew the 
Ostrya vulgaris, Sophora japonica and Araucaria imbricata which still 
remain. It was itself bounded to the south by a wall removed by Sir 
William Hooker in 1847 ; а small portion still remains at the back of the 
Outside the Botanic Garden жөө: the Pleasure M which were | 
therefore much larger in area than they are at pres 
“In 1843 about 45 acres of the pleasure ground, k Ea o the Botanic 
Garten. were papali the latter, separated by a wire fence, the peat part being 
summer ae) hay, the lower part being s filled up lake of George III. 
(a bog i in а, there being very few trees, except those on the mount, and the 
e willows round a piece of water called the pond, ded the удио Road, 
and a row of old elm trees called the seven sisters.” (Smith, Records, p. 269). 
The Kew Guide says these were “named in allusion to the daughters 
of е ade HET 
The Pleasure Grounds of Kew Gardens proper extended from the 
Palace to the Pagoda almost without a break of any sort or description. 
