178 ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW 
Walnuts and 
Hickories. 
is well known on country walls, but there are others quite distinct, 
and beautiful too. The shrubs, besides including the brooms (Cytisus 
and Genista), the gorse (Ulex), and other British kinds, are repre- 
sented by numerous rarer species from the cool temperate latitudes 
of the northern hemisphere: Manchuria, Siberia, China, Japan, North 
America, and Europe. For sunny gardens, where the soil is not rich, 
this family supplies many beautiful shrubs. 
Near the wall are growing the various species of hickory (Cary a) 
and walnut (Juglans), closely allied trees that yield valuable timber 
and in some cases edible fruits. The southern boundary 
of the Leguminosse is the Rose Garden, which is dealt 
with elsewhere, and which brings us to the southern 
limits of the gardens. Close by is the Lion Gate, opening on to 
Kew Road. We shall now cross the wide lawn on which the Pagoda 
stands, and which terminates the Pagoda Vista, to the avenue of 
Atlas cedars. To the north is the Temperate House, between which 
and this end of the Cedar Avenue are collected two of the most 
important groups of trees and shrubs — those that belong to the rose 
family and to the Saxifragaceas. 
Before traversing this section of the Arboretum, it will be worth 
while to note a few features of interest near the Pagoda. Here are 
a few cedars of Lebanon, the sole survivors of a numer- 
ous group planted about 1760, which Sir Joseph Hooker 
remembers to have covered the ground so thickly as to have 
completely hidden it from the view of anyone looking down from 
the top of the Pagoda. 
Two large groups of heaths close by make bright patches of colour 
in their season. These broad patches of heath are a recent and 
very attractive development in shrub-planting in Kew. 
The sandy, light soil suits them, and they remain in flower 
Old Cedars. 
Rare 
Shrubs. 
for a longer time than almost any other hardy shrubs. 
Growing amongst them are colonies of rare and interesting plants, 
many of which it is found thrive best with the ground about them 
shaded as it is here by these heaths. Here, for instance, is the first 
plant of Brewer’s spruce ( Picea Breweriana ) introduced to England ; 
it represents a remarkable pendulous species from the Siskiyou 
Mountains of Northern California. Several specimens are present, 
too, of the rare South American beeches ( Fagus antarctica, betuloides 
and obliqua) ; the two former species are the most prominent con- 
