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	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kew Gardens originated in the exotic garden at Kew House formed by Lord Capel of Tewkesbury, enlarged and greatly extended by Princess Augusta, the widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales, for whom Sir William Chambers built several garden structures, of which the lofty Chinese pagoda from 1761 remains.
		Under Kew's new director, William Hooker, the gardens were increased to 30 ha (75 acres), and the pleasure grounds, or arboretum, extended to 109 ha (270 acres), and later to its current size of 120 ha (300 acres).
		Kew was the location of the successful effort in the 19th century to propagate rubber trees for cultivation outside South America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Kew (946 words)

	Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Gardens and Spas - Kew Gardens
		Kew Gardens are not only among the most favourite resorts of the London holiday maker, but have special value to the botanist and horticulturist.
		Kew Gardens were, for some time, the private grounds surrounding the palace of Kew, and belonged to the royal family since the time when the Prince of Wales, son of George II.
		The Arboretum used to be separated from the Botanic Gardens proper by a wire fence; and until a few years ago, to the unscientific male visitor, the chief distinction lay in the fact that in the former smoking was permitted, whereas in the Gardens it was prohibited.
	www.victorianlondon.org /entertainment/kewgardens.htm (1536 words)

	Kew Gardens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kew Gardens is a commonly-used name for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, United Kingdom
		Kew Gardens is the name of a park in The Beaches neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
		Kew Gardens is also the name of a neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City, USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kew_Gardens (136 words)

	Kew Gardens London
		Kew Gardens, the greatest of all public gardens in Britain and perhaps the world.
		Kew contains various important 19th Century structures, The Pagoda (by William Chambers) is a witness to the Japanese influence.
		Kew Gardens is a short walking distance from many other tourist attractions such as the Kew Bridge Steam Museum, the Public Records Office and Syon Palace.
	www.travellondon.com /templates/parksT24/Kew.html (433 words)

	Neighborhoods: Kew Gardens -- Congressman Anthony D. Weiner, New York's 9th District
		Kew Gardens is a neighborhood in central Queens bounded to the north by the Interborough Parkway and Queens Boulevard, to the east by Kew Gardens Road, to the south by Myrtle Avenue, and to the west by Forest Park.
		The first apartment building was the Kew Bolmer at 80-45 Kew Gardens Road, erected in 1915; a clubhouse followed in 1916 and a private school in 1918.
		In July 1933, the Grand Central Parkway opened from Kew Gardens to the edge of Nassau County; this road was extended in 1935 as the Interborough Parkway to Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York.
	www.house.gov /weiner/neighborhoods/hoods_kewgardens.htm (576 words)

	Kew Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kew Gardens, the greatest of all public gardens in Britain and perhaps the world, is on the Richmond Branch of the District Line Underground, and on British Rail on the North London Line (which does not operate on Sundays).
		In the garden of grasses near to the modern Princess of Wales greenhouse is
		A relatively small one near the main gate (sadly recently stripped of its tree frogs and enormous cheeseplants and to be converted into a 'visitor reception' by the barbarians) is by Nash and was originally for Buckingham Palace.
	www.speel.demon.co.uk /other/kew.htm (614 words)

	CEC: Closed Canadian Parks - Kew Beach/Kew Gardens
		Kew Gardens was located in the Beaches district of Toronto, west of Balmy Beach.
		A Kew Beach Association was formed by the residents in an effort to address what they felt was neglect by the various governing bodies and to control runaway building and recreational expansion.
		It & Kew Gardens are all part of Beaches Park, which continues to be used for public recreation.
	cec.chebucto.org /ClosPark/Kew-Bech.html (1009 words)

	Kew's gardens cultivate horticulture, history, art
		The gardens are royal because kings and queens lived or owned the land before it became a national botanical institute.
		Once in Kew there are a few signs pointing to the gardens, but it's best to ask for directions or follow the pack as it flows out of downtown.
		Sir Joseph Banks became the unofficial director of the gardens, and the subsequent fame of the botanic gardens is largely due to him.
	www.freep.com /features/travel/kew25_20020825.htm (951 words)

	Kew
		Kew Gardens, formally the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is (or are) a major tourist attraction to the west of London, with trees, shrubs and plants to fascinate the knowledgable and bemuse the ignorant.
		(Hampton Court palace is a cycle-ride away; the site of Richmond palace is within walking distance.) It was during this early period that Kew Gardens sprouted a variety of architecture, of which the pagoda may be the most remarkable example.
		If it's a sunny day in Kew Gardens but you're cold all the same, climb the stairs -- they come close to the roof -- and stand on the sunny side.
	www.hoary.org /snaps/engl/kew.html (541 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kew Gardens (British And Irish Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Kew Gardens[kyOO] Pronunciation Key, Kew, Surrey, S England, on the Thames just W of London; Royal Botanic Gardens is the official name.
		The gardens were founded by the dowager princess of Wales in 1761 and consisted of about 9 acres (3.6 hectares).
		Near the main entrance is Kew Palace, a red-brick mansion, once the home of George III and Queen Charlotte.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/KewGarde.html (301 words)

	Kew Gardens
		Three hundred acres of botanical delights grace Kew Gardens, which lies on the south bank of the Thames River between Richmond and Kew in the suburbs of south-west London.
		The gardens are "Royal" because for many years the estates that now form the gardens were owned by members of Britain's royal family.
		Sir William Hooker was the man charged with running the gardens, and he was responsible for founding the Museum, the Department of Economic Botany, the Library, and the Herbarium.
	www.britainexpress.com /London/kew.htm (747 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is part of a global research network seeking a better future for our world.
		Kew is an organisation devoted to discovery, understanding and conservation, an our botanists collaborate in vital projects all over the world.
		Not so much in the garden sense; there are far prettier and even more impressive gardens, but few can rival Kew for botanical might and history.
	www.hcs.ohio-state.edu /ukstudy2000/postcard/kew.htm (385 words)

	Kew Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kew's 300 acres on the banks of the River Thames in South- West London, has developed from the original botanic garden which was founded in 1759 by Princess Augusta, wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales.
		Since its foundation, Kew has made important contributions to increasing the understanding of the plant kingdom and is internationally recognised for its educational programmes, horticultural excellence, and scientific research, particularly in the area of conservation.
		Royalties are paid to Kew by Cornflower on the sale of each print and greeting card which, along with Kew's licensing programme, helps to fund the global conservation and education programmes of this world famous institution.
	www.cornflower.co.uk /kew.htm (318 words)

	Kew Gardens, the Royal Botanic Gardens, tourist information from TourUK
		Kew Gardens are the most complete public gardens in the world.
		The botanical garden's reputation was established in the late-18th century when its keeper, Sir Joseph Banks, the British naturalist and plant hunter, planted specimens from all continents.
		However, Kew Gardens only really came into its own in 1841, when the royal gardens were donated to the nation by the crown, opened to the public and expanded by more than 200 acres.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_parks_gardens/kewgardens_park1.htm (589 words)

	7. Kew Gardens. Woolf, Virginia. 1921. Monday or Tuesday
		Instead, the drop was left in a second silver grey once more, and the light now settled upon the flesh of a leaf, revealing the branching thread of fibre beneath the surface, and again it moved on and spread its illumination in the vast green spaces beneath the dome of the heart-shaped and tongue-shaped leaves.
		Then the breeze stirred rather more briskly overhead and the colour was flashed into the air above, into the eyes of the men and women who walk in Kew Gardens in July.
		The figures of these men and women straggled past the flower-bed with a curiously irregular movement not unlike that of the white and blue butterflies who crossed the turf in zig-zag flights from bed to bed.
	www.bartleby.com /85/7.html (1693 words)

	Kew Gardens
		In 1759 Princess Augusta (mother of King George 111) founded a botanic garden amidst the pleasure gardens at Kew.
		Apart from being a garden of rare beauty, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a centre for scientific research and has the world¼s most comprehensive knowledge of plants.
		By car the gardens are where the North circular road (A406) joins the South circular road.
	www.plus44.com /heritage/kewgardens/kewgar.html (122 words)

	A Picture History of Kew Gardens, NY - The 1950 LIRR Crash at Kew Gardens/Richmond Hill
		On a stretch of track east of the Kew Gardens Long Island Railroad Station, a night-time New York to Hempstead commuter train came to a stop because its brakes would not release.
		However, as it passed through the Kew Gardens Station area, the motorman of the Babylon train caught sight of the next signal one half mile in the distance.
		As the Babylon train left the Kew Gardens Station area and emerged from the Lefferts Boulevard overpass, it was traveling at about 35mph.
	www.oldkewgardens.com /ss-lirr-0650.html (1787 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew near London
		Most of the plants are wild species rather than garden varieties, but it is a perfect place to come and discover new plants, impeccably labelled and well grown.
		There is the Queen's Garden in the style of a 17th century garden, a formal Rose Garden and a Heather Garden.
		Kew is of vast size and holds an astonishing abundance of garden and scientific knowledge for everyone.
	www.sisley.co.uk /kew.htm (271 words)

	Kew Gardens: Waterscape.com
		Highlights include the Japanese garden and pagoda, the rock garden, the marvellous Victorian glasshouses - the Palm House, the Temperate House and the Princess of Wales Conservatory - plus the rose garden, the Queen's garden (healing and herbal plants) and the woodland glade.
		Kew Gardens is the London home of the Royal Botanical Society - internationally recognised as a world leader in botanical science, discovery and conservation.
		A ten-minute walk west of Kew Bridge on the north bank at Brentford brings you to Thames Lock (24 hours' notice required for boat passage: 020 8560 1120), the western junction of the Grand Union Canal with the River Thames.
	www.waterscape.com /servicesdirectory/Kew_Gardens (250 words)

	Kew Gardens
		In State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens yesterday, the chapter president-elect told a jury that Chambers, 22, felt he would not be fully respected as a member...
		When an alleged drunken driver in Kew Gardens killed one boy and badly injured another last month, members of the state legislature were scorched for not...
		At the Kew Gardens Community Center yesterday, Sally Caisia said she was at wit's end because she can't find anyone to give her a flu shot.
	conservation.mongabay.com /Kew_Gardens.htm (3194 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - Culture - Restoring Kew Gardens - 2002.1002
		Kew Gardens, on the banks of the River Thames in southwest London, represents 250 years of landscape and garden history.
		A complex conservation program is being undertaken to conserve the architectural and landscape heritage of Kew Gardens while developing the site to improve visitor and scientific facilities and to expand the gardens' role as a unique center for UK biodiversity.
		The Kew Gardens conservation program, drawn up to help further its cause for World Heritage site status, includes reestablishing Kew's historic link with the River Thames, opening up its important collections for greater public access, restoring its historic buildings, and returning some administration buildings to public use.
	www.architectureweek.com /2002/1002/culture_1-1.html (277 words)

	Psychoanalitic Symbols in "Kew Gardens," by Virginia Woolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kew Gardens is one the most erotic short stories I have ever read.
		It could be relevant, because in the age Virginia Woolf had written "Kew Gardens," sexuality certainly was a taboo.
		She chose a very fine, and on the fileds of Art fully accepted way to express the sensual fantasies that could not be said straightly.
	kvtr.elte.hu /csoport/ago/eng.html (851 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| London \| Kew is newest 'world wonder'
		Kew Gardens is to join the likes of the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China as a modern wonder of the world.
		Kew director Professor Peter Crane spoke of his delight after the decision by the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
		As well as a tourist attraction, Kew is a world famous scientific organisation, internationally respected for its living collection of plants and scientific facilities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/london/3043160.stm (398 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
		Criterion ii: Since the 18th century, the Botanic Gardens of Kew have been closely associated with scientific and economic exchanges established throughout the world in the field of botany, and this is reflected in the richness of its collections.
		Criterion iv: The landscape gardens and the edifices created by celebrated artists such as Charles Bridgeman, William Kent, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and William Chambers reflect the beginning of movements which were to have international influence.
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1084 (254 words)

	Kew Gardens
		Kew Gardens, Kew, Surrey, S England, on the Thames just W of London; Royal Botanic Gardens is the official name.
		Over 200 years of kew gardens knowledge to go on-line with million pound grant from treasury.
		Kew Gardens celebrates Asian culture and its influence on British life.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0827484.html (348 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Kew Gardens
		Kew Gardens, with a nine per cent rise, and the Science Museum, with an increase of six per cent, both bucked the trend.
		KEW GARDENS — A Far Rockaway woman arrested in connection with the triple shooting of a Cambria Heights family in June was scheduled to be arraigned on...
		KEW GARDENS — A Far Rockaway man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing a 16-year-old youth in Jamaica in 1992, Queens District Attorney Richard...
	conservation.mongabay.com /files/Kew_Gardens.htm (12458 words)

	London - Kew Gardens
		Kew is too far afield to be called unnoticed London, but it is the most wonderful of all the London gardens and so easy to reach that to miss it would be a matter for perpetual regret.
		Its founder was the Princess Augusta of SaxeGotha, the wife of Frederick Prince of Wales, who, eight years after her husband's death, interested herself in the laying out of the exotic garden at Kew that was the nucleus of the vast collection of 24,000 different varieties of plants.
		Sir Peter Lely had a house at Kew Green and Johann Zoffany the painter, whose fame has so lately been augmented by the publication of his life and memoirs, lived in Zoffany House at Strand-on-the-Green, a delightful old-world riverside village close to Kew Bridge.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles05/london53.shtml (340 words)

	OPPENHEIMER KEW GARDENS EDITIONS
		Less well known to the general public are the behind-the-scenes activities of Kew, which are helping conserve plants and their habitats around the globe.
		In addition to assisting in the creation of new nature reserves, and helping to document the diverse uses of plants, one of Kew’s key goals is to create a seed bank that will preserve the world’s endangered plant species for hundreds of years into the future.
		The behind-the-scenes collections at RBG are vast, and the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is one of Britain’s great hidden treasures.
	www.oppenheimereditions.com /indexkew.htm (267 words)

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