UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
THE COTSWOLDS
By G. F. Nicholls and Francis Duckworth
NORTH DEVON
By Henry B. Wimbush and F. J. Snell
SOUTH DEVON
By C. E. Hannaford and Charles Rowe, M.J.I.
GALLOWAY
By James Faed, Jun., and J. M. Sloan
IRELAND
By Francis S. Walker, R.H.A., and Frank Mathew
LIVERPOOL
By J. Hamilton Hay and Dixon Scott
THE PEAK COUNTRY
By W. Biscombe Gardner and A. R. Hope Moncrieff
KEW GARDENS
AGENTS
| America | The Macmillan Company 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York |
| Australasia | The Oxford University Press, Melbourne |
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| India | Macmillan & Company, Ltd. Macmillan Building, Bombay 309 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcutta |
THE RHODODENDRON DELL
KEW GARDENS
PAINTED BY
T. MOWER MARTIN, R.C.A.
DESCRIBED BY
A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF
WITH
24 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1908
PREFACE
Kew Gardens contain what seems the completestbotanical collection in the world, handicappedas it is by a climate at the antipodesof Eden, and by a soil that owes less to Naturethan to patient art. Before being given upto public pleasure and instruction, this demesnewas a royal country seat, specially favoured byGeorge III. That homely King had two houseshere and began to build a more pretentiouspalace, a design cut short by his infirmities, butfor which Kew might have usurped the place of