Kew Gardens / With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour

by A. R. Hope Moncrieff

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FOOTNOTES

[1] The Dictionary of National Biography’s article on Francis Willis, written, I understand, by a descendant of his, hardly does justice to this one of his sons. The writer mentions John and Robert as concerned with treating the King at different times, but does not bring forward Thomas, who, so far as I can make out, was closely in charge during the attack of 1801.

[2] Letting in Elizabethan English, of course, bore the opposite meaning to ours, as in “let and hinder.”

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INDEX

• Abel, musician, [125]
• Acorns exported from Kew, [185]
• Addison, quoted, [90]
• Æolus, Temple of, [169]
• Aiton, John, [102]
• Aiton, William, [100]
• Aiton, William Townsend, [102]
• Albert, Prince, [110]
• Amelia, Princess, [64], [79]
• Amelia’s House, Princess, [30]
• Arch, the ruined, [199]
• Argyll, Duke of, [9]
• Aroid House, [170]
• Assassination, George III.’s escape from, [36]
• Augusta, Princess of Saxe-Gotha, [13]
• Australian vegetation, [182]
• Ayrton, Mr., [109]
• Azaleas, [196]
• Bach, J. C., [40], [125]
• Bacon’s Essay, Of Gardens, [85]
• Bamboos, [186]
• Bauer, Francis, [146]
• Birch, uses of, [187]
• Bluebells, [196]
• Bohemia, Anne of, [2]
• Boswell, [70]
• Botanic Garden at Kew, [95], [101], [107], [112]
• Botanists, portraits of explorers and, [195]
• Bradley, Astronomer-Royal, [87]
• Brazil nuts, [193]
• Brentford, [8], [77], [113], [119], [132]
• Bridgeman, gardener, [91]
• Brown, “Capability,” [95]
• Buckingham Palace, [27], [32], [78]
• Buitenzorg Gardens, Java, [161]
• Burney, Miss, quoted, [46], [59], [66], [67]
• Burton, Decimus, [108]
• Bushey Park, [149]
• Bute, Earl of, [19], [23], [95], [123]
• “Buttonmaker,” nickname of George III., [31]
• Byam, Rev. R. B., [145]
• Cactus aloe, [169]
• Cambridge Cottage, [46], [123], [153], [156]
• Cambridge, Duke Adolphus of, [45], [81], [116], [153]
• Cambridge, Duke George of, [154]
• Cambridge, Princess Mary of, [155]
• Capel, Lord, [11], [87]
• Carleton House, [77]
• Carob pods, [193]
• Caroline, Queen, [9], [10], [94], [116]
• Cassava, [194]
• Castor-oil plant, the, [193]
• Cedars of Lebanon, [197]
• Chambers, Sir William, [96]
• Character of George III., [22]
• Charles I., [7]
• Charlotte, Princess, [80], [81]
• Charlotte, Queen, 24, 47, 52 [68], [80]
• Chatterton, quoted, [98]
• Chelsea, Physic Garden of, [101]
• Chestnuts, [194]
• Chrysanthemums, [196]
• Church House, [123]
• City State Barge, [143]
• Clarence, Duke of, [45], [70], [81]
• Cobbett, William, [136]
• Coca leaves, [192]
• Coco-nut of Seychelles, [166]
• Coco-nut trees, uses of, [188]
• Colton, Charles Caleb, [143]
• Confucius, House of, [96]
• Cook’s Voyages, [105]
• Copernicia cerifera, a tree-of-all-work, [189]
• Cotton window, the, [191]
• Cowley, quoted, [84]
• Crocuses, [196]
• Cuba jungles, [171]
• Cumberland, Ernest, Duke of, [45], [81], [116], [150], [151]
• Cumberland, William of, [12], [18]
• Daffodils, [196]
• “Dairy House,” the, [11]
• D’Arblay, General, [71]
• Darwin, Erasmus, quoted, [98]
• Darwins, the, [102]
• Dates, [194]
• Deans, Jeanie, [9]
• De Candolles, the, [102]
• De Jussieus, the, [102]
• Diary, George Rose’s, [74]
• Dictionary of National Biography, quoted, [75]
• Digby, Colonel, [67]
• Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, [96]
• Diversions of Purley, the, [134]
• Doddington, Bubb, [20]
• Dowager Princess of Wales, [20], [95]
• Dragon-tree at Orotava, [180]
• “Drake, Peter,” [95]
• Drawing-rooms at St. James’s, [50]
• Duck, Misses, [116]
• Duck, Stephen, [94], [116], [117]
• Dutch House, the, [11], [29], [74]
• Edinburgh Botanical Garden, [103]
• Edward III., [2]
• Elizabeth, Queen, [5]
• “Elizabeth’s house, Princess,” [46]
• Engleharts, the, [126]
• Ernest, King of Hanover, 107 [150], [151]
• Ernst, the page, [126]
• Eucalyptus, [181]
• Evelyn, John, [86]
• Explorers, portraits of botanists and, [195]
• “Farmer George,” [31]
• Finch, Lady Charlotte, [46]
• Fischer, musician, [40], [125]
• Fitzherbert, Mrs., [45]
• Fortnum, [125]
• Frederick, Duke of York, [37], [43], [46]
• Frederick, Prince of Wales, [11], [15], [88]
• Gainsborough, Thomas, [129]
• Gardening, art of, [88]
• Gardens, celebrated, [87], [88]
• Gardens, the Story of the, [82]
• Garrick, quoted, [96]
• George, Duke of Cambridge, [154]
• “George, Farmer,” [31]
• George I., [8]
• George II., [8], [10], [24]
• George III., [13], [74], [76], [78], [95], [120]
• George III., accession of, [24]
• George III.’s character, [22]
• George III.’s escape from assassination, [36]
• George III.’s illness, [51]
• George III. meets Miss Burney, [47]
• George III.’s tutors, [17]
• George IV., [77], [106]
• George IV., Prince of Wales, [37], [40], [53], [55]
• George IV.’s intrigue with “Perdita” Robinson, [41]
• Giant gum trees at Melbourne, [164]
• Gordon, General, [166]
• Great Palm House, [165]
• Green, the gardener, [99]
• Greenhouse, the, [170]
• Greville, Charles, quoted, [150]
• Grey, Lady Jane, [4]
• Gwyn, Mrs., the “Jessamy Bride,” [145]
• Ha-ha fence, [93]
• Ham House, [87], [114]
• Hampton Court, [3], [8], [10]
• Hanover, Ernest, King of, [107]
• Hanover, George of, [152]
• Haverfield, John, [99]
• Hawkins, the brothers, [123]
• Helps, Sir Arthur, [147]
• Hemp plants, [192]
• Henry, Prince, [6]
• Herbaceous ground, [169], [198]
• Herbarium library, [152]
• Heroic Epistle, Mason’s, [95]
• Hervey, Lord, quoted, [12], [14]
• Highwaymen, [121]
• Hill, Sir John, [96]
• Hofland, Barbara, [146]
• Hollow Walk, the, [123]
• “Honour, Maids of,” [8]
• Hooker, Sir J. D., [109], [181]
• Hooker, Sir W. J., [108], [109]
• Horne Tooke, John, [132]
• Horse-chestnut, old, [196]
• Horticultural Society’s Garden, [107]
• Huntingdon, William, S.S., [138]
• Hurlbut, W. H., quoted, [171]
• “Improvers,” [88]
• India-rubber plants, [195]
• Islay, Lord, [97]
• Italian Gardens, [89]
• Jacobi, Mdlle., [69], [72]
• James I., [5]
• Jefferies, Richard, quoted, [198]
• Jones, Henry, [98]
• Jones, Inigo, [88]
• Juniper Hill, [71]
• “Junius,” [134]
• Kava root, [192]
• Kent, Duke of, [45], [81]
• Kent, William, [88]
• Kew Bridge, [118]
• Kew Castle, [77]
• Kew Church, [115]
• Kew Churchyard, [129]
• Kew Cottage, [147]
• Kew Green, [75], [157]
• Kew House, [10], [29], [32], [46], [51], [54], [64], [76]
• Kew in favour, [31]
• “Kew in lilac-time,” [158]
• Kew Observatory, [9], [88], [97], [111]
• Kew, origin of name, [1]
• Kew Palace, [10], [78], [80], [112], [197]
• Kew Priory, [143]
• Kew Volunteers, [149]
• Kingston, [2]
• Kirby, Joshua, [129]
• Kit-Cat Club, [114]
• Kneller, Sir Godfrey, [114]
• Kneller Hall, [114]
• Knight, Charles, [79]
• Knight, Miss Cornelia, [73]
• Lacon, quoted, [144]
• Lake, the, [197]
• Langley, Batty, [91]
• Lauderdale, Duke of, at Ham House, [87]
• Lebanon, cedars of, [197]
• Lely, Sir Peter, [113]
• Lennox, Lady Sarah, [26]
• Le Nôtre, [89]
• Levens Hall, [89]
• Linnean classification, the, [190]
• Linnés, the, [102]
• Lion Gate, the, [197]
• Liquorice root, [192]
• Little, John, story of, [141]
• “Love Lane,” [33]
• Macaulay, quoted, [47]
• Macnab, James, [103]
• Macnab, William, [102]
• Macnab, William Ramsay, [103]
• “Maids of Honour,” [8]
• Mammoth sequoia, [181]
• Marvell, A., quoted, [93]
• Mary of Cambridge, Princess, [155]
• Mason’s Heroic Epistle, [95]
• Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Dowager Grand-Duchess of, [155]
• Melbourne, giant gum-trees at, [164]
• “Merlin’s Cave,” [94]
• Meyer, Jeremiah, [126]
• Molyneux, Samuel, [11], [87]
• Monastery of Sheen, the, [83]
• Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, [123]
• Moor Park, Hertfordshire, [85]
• Murray, Miss Amelia, quoted, [124]
• Museums and Economic Houses, [185]
• New Zealand Vegetation, [183]
• Niepce, J. N. de, [146]
• “No Popery” riots, [34]
• North Gallery, [199]
• North, Miss Marianne, [161], [163], [199]
• Nôtre, Le, [89]
• Noyes, Mr. A., quoted, [158]
• Observatory, the, [9], [88], [97], [111]
• Old Brentford, [132]
• Old Deer Park, [36], [111], [141]
• Opium, [192]
• “Orangery,” the, [190]
• Orotava, dragon-tree at, [180]
• Pagoda, the, [1], [96], [197]
• Palace at Richmond, proposed new, [28]
• Palm House, [108]
• Papendiek, Mrs., Memoirs of, [34], [40], [43], [56], [72], [99], [120], [121], [123], [125]
• Papyrus reeds, [167]
• Pavilion, the Brighton, [77]
• Peradenia, Gardens of, [164]
• Petersham, [114]
• Phillips’s Morning’s walk from London to Kew, [142]
• Physic Garden, Chelsea, [101]
• Pond, the, [197]
• Pope, quoted, [15], [89]
• Portraits of botanists and explorers, [195]
• Potato, the, [185]
• Prain, Colonel, [109]
• Prince Albert, [110]
• Prince Frederick of Wales, [11], [15], [88]
• Prince George of Hanover, [152]
• Prince Henry, [6]
• Princess Amelia, [30], [64], [79]
• Princess Charlotte, [80], [81]
• “Princess Elizabeth’s House,” [46]
• Princess Marie’s wedding, [155]
• Princess Victoria, [81]
• Pringle, Sir John, [123]
• Proctor, Richard, [147]
• Queen Caroline, [9], [10], [116]
• Queen Charlotte, [27], [68], [80]
• Queen Elizabeth, [5]
• Queen Victoria, [112], [149]
• “Queen’s Cottage,” the, [29], [196]
• “Queen’s Lodge” at Windsor, [32]
• Quinine, [193]
• Rafflesia, [162]
• Recollections of a Happy Life, [200]
• Regency Bill, [53], [62]
• Regency, the Prince’s, [79]
• Repton, Humphrey, [93]
• Richmond, [3], [5], [113], [140]
• Richmond Gardens, [94], [110]
• Richmond Lodge, [8], [10], [28], [32], [97], [110]
• Richmond Palace, [3]
• Richmond Park, [7], [30]
• Richmond, proposal of new palace at, [28]
• Rio de Janeiro, Botanic Garden, near, [164]
• Riots, “No Popery,” [34]
• Robinson, “Perdita,” [41]
• Rock Garden, the, [168]
• Rogers, John, Reminiscences, [34], [101]
• Rose, George, Diary of, [74]
• Roses, [196]
• St. James’s Drawing-rooms, [50]
• St. James’s Palace, [27]
• Saxe-Gotha, Princess Augusta of, [13]
• Scholarship, George IV.’s, [37]
• Schwellenberg, Mrs., [49], [68]
• Scotsmen as gardeners, [100], [105]
• Senna, [192]
• Seychelles, coco-nut of, [166]
• Sharp, Granville, [122]
• Sheen, [2]
• Sheen Common, [94]
• Sheen, the Monastery of, [83]
• Snowdrops, [196]
• Somerset, Protector, [84]
• South African plants, [168]
• Spectator, the, quoted, [90]
• Spencer, Lady Elizabeth, [27]
• Story of the Gardens, the, [82]
• Strand-on-the-Green, [113], [126]
• Strawberry Hill, [90], [91]
• Succulent House, [169]
• Sudbrook Park, [114]
• Suffolk House, [4]
• Sun, Temple of the, [169]
• Sunday opening, [110]
• Sussex, Duke of, [45]
• Swift, quoted, [114]
• Switzer, Stephen, [87], [91]
• Sydney, Botanic Gardens at, [164]
• Syon House, [4], [84]
• Syon Vista, the, [197]
• Tamerlane’s garden, [100]
• Teck, Duke of, [155]
• Temple, Sir William, [87]
• Temple of Æolus, [169]
• Temple of the Sun, [169]
• Temple Grove, [87]
• Thackeray, quoted, [34]
• Theobald’s Park, Enfield, [5]
• Thiselton-Dyer, Sir W. T., [109]
• Thomson, James, [140]
• “Thresher-poet,” the, [116]
• Thresher’s Labour, The, quoted, [117]
• Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, [62]
• Timber Museum, No. III., [190]
• Tooke, John Horne, [132]
• Topiarian art, the, [89]
• Trimmer, Mrs., [129]
• Tropical Lily House, [166]
• Tropics, plagues of the, [176]
• Tulips, [196]
• Turner, Dr. William, [83]
• Tutors of George III., [17]
• Twickenham, [21]
• “Two Kings of Brentford,” the, [132]
• Upas tree, [195]
• Victoria Gate, [112]
• Victoria, Princess, [81]
• Victoria, Queen, [112], [149]
• Victoria Regia, the, [162], [167]
• Visiting the Gardens, [157]
• Wales, Dowager Princess of, [20], [95]
• Wales, Prince Frederick of, [11], [88]
• Wallace, Dr. A. R., quoted, [174]
• Walpole, Horace, [9], [14], [15], [17], [18], [19], [21], [28], [45], [63]
• Wedding of Princess Marie, [155]
• Wells, Mr. J. W., quoted, [189]
• West, Sir Algernon, quoted, [109]
• Weymouth, [65], [76]
• White House, the, [46]
• White Lodge, [155]
• Whitton Place, [97]
• Wild hyacinths, [196]
• Wilkes, John, [26], [131]
• Wilkes’s head, [76]
• “Wilkes and Liberty,” [89], [133]
• Wilkinson, Mr., Reminiscences, [154]
• William of Cumberland, [12], [18]
• William III., [8], [89]
• William IV., [87]
• Willis, Rev. Dr., [56], [68]
• Willises, the, [75]
• Windsor Castle, [32], [50], [78]
• Wolsey, [3]
• Wyatt, Sir Thomas, [118]
• York, Frederick, Duke of, [37], [42], [64]
• Zoffany, John, [127]

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