"Kew Gardens contain what seems the completest botanical collection in the world, handicapped as it is by a climate at the antipodes
of Eden, and by a soil that owes less to Nature
than to patient art. Before being given up
to public pleasure and instruction, this demesne
was a royal country seat, specially favoured by
George III. That homely King had two houses
here and began to build a more pretentious
palace, a design cut short by his infirmities, but
for which Kew might have usurped the place of
Windsor."
Extract from "Kew Gardens" (Open Library).
Address:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB Website:www.kew.org
