Imperial Kew by Thames’s glittering side;

Obedient sails from realms unfurrow’d bring

For her the unnam’d progeny of spring;

Attendant nymphs her dulcet mandates hear,

And nurse in fostering arms the tender year,

Plant the young bulb, inhume the living seed,

Prop the weak stem, the erring tendril lead;

Or fan in glass-built fanes the stranger flowers

With milder gales, and steep with warmer showers.

Etc. etc.