Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-09

smith and drowsy Chiswick, with its
nursery grounds and glass houses by
the wayslde and fine market gardens
crowded close by new houses, and
dreamiul Gunnersbury where the an
cient forests show in dark masses
against the horizon. There are lush
orchards, too, where the rich fruit
dapples the fading leaves and meadows
wavy and rich, whore the late butter
cups and daisies star the tender green.
The old days are remembered more
than once ON this winding highway
most suggestivcly perhaps, where on
new red brick wall is seen the inscrip-
ton, London Stile.n Who that has
read Dickens or Thackeray or Albert
smith who barely escaped being as
great as either doos not in fancy
instantly live in the old coaching
days and see disappearing to
the west In cloud OF dust the
"Flying Mali or the "Wonder," or
with pathetic recognition remember
the country yokels resting ON that
broad stile, the meantime munching
their crusts as they gazed down the
Thames to ,Westminstcr's towers and
st, Paul's dome and dream Of the Won
drous London streets all paved with
shining gold?
And then the messy bridges, with
steep old-iashioned pitch and broad,
crumbling parapots, where rosy
checked lasses still linger and marvel
~ your bus goes rumbling
by; gray turnstiles leading to
brown deep footpaths that wind through
gardens and file ds, whore some one, as
In the old days, always tarries and
turns to gaze Mt passers gazing In their
turn, AS though the two were the only
ones seen In a whole days journey; the
gay but stolid looking barges lying
here and there In the backwater
against the shore, and finally. quaint
old Kew Green, whore the years bring
no change, and where everything is so
little, odd and Anticipated that you
could feel no surprise II Farmer George
and Queen Charlotte, with numbering
caleche and six horses came dashing
through the gates OF Royal Kew.
About 200 years ago Lord Capel laid
ont the garden which has since become
not only one Of London's most beautiful
pleasure grounds, but Il scientific ms l.
sutton, whose influence and benefits
reach to all quarters OF the globe. On
the death of Lord Capel In 1896, the cs-
tate passed into tho hands Of his son.in
law, who made tho place still more
famous US tho headquarters Of English
nstronumists, Under the advice OF tho
Earl OF Butte the dowager Princess Au-
gustn made tia scientific establishment.
and 1t was called tho "physic
Garden As early rs 1908 Sir
John Hin published u catalogue Of the
plants OF Kew, There warc thop fifty
| forms, 600 trees and shrubs and several
thousand herbaceous plants. In 1859
the estate was bought by George Ill.
| He devoted much money and Intention
TO its Improvement. Farmer George
he was called, in praise by scientists,
and In dcrision by Taxpayers, for his
pains, For n long tlma after this
monarch's death the gardens sank into
neglect II was then proposed 10 dis.
establish and lisendow them. A pro,
test was RMS d and tho whole kingdom
opposed, wheraupon the gardens wer.
| surrendered by the crown and became
n national establishment IN | 40.
Then Royal Kew in name became
Royal kow In fact under The direcfor-
ships OF Sir w. j. Hooker, who re-
mNined In charge until his death. In
1868, and his on, Sir Joseph Hooker
the renowned traveller ana DO a i {
who succeu ded him. The latter
known TO every student of botany In
tho world from his Flora Antarofica -
"Himalayan Journals and his great
work, Genera Plantarum,n and no
tremendous Importance Of Kew as nm
International scientific educator has
been almost wholly due 10 his genins
ior. compelling It's work TO cover a yast
and practically llmiuess field.
To talntly illustrate this extraordi-
nary comprehensiveness 4 may be
truly said that wherever In the " rid
classification Of now plants Is reouired
Kew stands ready To attend 10 the
matter, Whenever new plants are
wanted for cultivation these Roval
Gardens viii supply Thorn, and Ills
readiness Of eupply Is not AZ all
limited TO British subjects or colonies
Where plant disease threatens or pests
approach, Kew viii consult and adyise
horeign institutions cooperate In nil
these beneficial relations. Lists of now
plants arr constantly being published
Lasts Of seeds tmiarod hers are also