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Main gate. This was erected on the ground which had been taken 
from Kew Green. Up to 1848 it was used as a Palm-house. In that 
year— 
“Its contents кт. of Palms and other tropical plants, were removed to the 
[new] Palm-hous n it was ee ely occupied А сое wes эч growing kinds of 
Australian piine, ku as Myrtaceae, Leguminose, and Р -' . . some 
of Se Banksias кайы large bushes and flowering peas: » [Smith, Records, 
These in turn were removed in 1863 to the Temperate House. It is 
now used for Aroidee and other plants requiring an extreme tropical 
treatment, 
William IV., as already wwe removed се ‘wall of the old mpi 
to the west and north, which ran from the *Ice House" to the 
end of the Orangery. This was ii е first step in the policy of iie 
up the grounds, which has been pursued ever since. 
According to a memorandum of a conversation with John Smith, 
William IV. in 1830 removed the high FERRA си ted by George IV. 
across the west end of the Green, and the gates and lodges at either end 
of it. He used the gates and part of the жин to inclose the front 
of Hunter House. (This inclosure was i back in 1880.) The other 
part was erected across the space between the present house of the 
Keeper of the Herbarium and the wall of Hunter aes grounds. It 
was bent into the present sweep when the Main gate was ereeted 
in 1845. 
OLD ENTRANCE. 
At this time there does not appear to have been any entrance where 
шә Main gate now stands. Evans says (р. 122) in 1824 :—“ The 
entrance is on the upper се of Kew ee whist another is in 
“ ава Road.” The former was on the south of the Green, 
where the engine-house now sta: inte t was narrow eir inconspicous ; 
but it was not superseded till 1845, when the Main gate was erected by 
Decimus Burton. 
The * Lion and Unicorn асе " which Evans describes as 
adorning George IV.’s gates, now perform the same function on two 
gates in the Richmond Road. The lion was at first on the present 
Unicorn Gate. The present Lion Gate was called the Pagoda Gate. 
* Pagoda.” This was done, but the position of the two figures was 
interchanged. 
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Oncurs. 
In 1888 George Aldridge ita a ш of ed. orchids from 
Trinidad. He was son of John Aldridge, m ars foreman of the 
Бол Kitchen Garden аё Кы ы, ета aperittésidén of the 
al Kitchen and Forcing Garden at Kew. George "alc went 
to "worker in 1831, and returned on deed of bad health 
Smith says (Records, p. 285) that in 1826 about 60 зревігд of orchids 
wwe cultivated at Kew. ‘New ones were, however, successively 
* ad and in 1836 a small ве was seit and appropriated to 
* the ды eni of tropical speci 
