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Evans (p. 125) e M (in 1825) as “ reaching for a full mile, 
* from the Pagoda down to th e Palace at Kew, and strewed with new 
* mown hay of a Bur а and fragrancy.” 
Groree IIs LAKE. 
The present pord is only a fragment of a large piece of water which 
occupied the site of the Palm House and exterded to the west of it. 
Smith says (p. 172) that this was “the lowest ground in the parish of 
ew, consisting. originally of lagoons, which George III. converted 
“ into a lake. It was filled up in 1814." The lake is shown on 
Burrell’s plan in 1771; it contained an island to which access was 
obtained by Sir W. Chambers’s bridge. There seems reason to think 
that the “lagoons” spoken of above were part of a chain of ponds which 
ran through the parish to the N.E., and were themselves the remains of 
a ecran ereek or backwater of the Thames. 
During the reign of George IV. no collector seems to have been 
employed. But Kew gardeners, who obtained employment abroad, were 
not unmindful of the establishment. A few of these deserve a brief 
record, ‘The particulars are from brief memoranda left by John Smith, 
which have also been made use of in giving an account of the regular 
collectors. 
Sr. HELENA. 
Thomas Frazer, a native of Scotland, was at Kew in 1820. 
tree of St. Helena, &c. He was afterwards foreman in the Royal 
Garden at Frogmore. 
Swan RIVER. 
William Morrison, a native of Scotland, was at Mm in 1824.. He 
went to Barbados to superintend a sugar planta He visited 
Trinidad, and returning to England in 1828 комн а aos йш 
of seeds, plants, and dried specimens. He was again employed at Kew, 
and was sent to owed ui ы home a large purchase of огап jé trees 
forwarded collections to this country for sale ( US focii рр. 10, 
11). wd of the Swan River Proteacee w introduced to Kew 
through M 
Kew Patace (NEW). 
Kew House had been taken down by George III. in 1803, and about 
this time he commenced the erection of a new y the river side 
contiguous to what is now called Queen Elizabeth's lawn 
TION describes joven vol. v., pp. 378, 379) the Castle in 
w Gardens " as he calls 
position opposite to the icky and dusky town of Brentford, one of еар 
E detestable places in the vicinity of London, only separated by the of 
