The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-04
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Judge Lopez Tells OF His Summer In Europe

marriage to Shakespeare. The pic
turesque thatched-roof cottage con-
tins furniture and other objects of
domestic use In the sixteenth cen.
fury. From there we went to visit
Holy Trinity Church by the Avon
which contains William Shakes.
peare's tomb. From STAFFORD on
the Avon, We came back to Lon
don by different route which was
also very beautiful as there were
many flowers, many beautiful
farms and many picturesque Eng
lish towns.
Kew Gardens
Sunday, Lillian and / went to
High Mass at Westminster Roman
Catholic Cathedral where the mass
was very rich in full medieval
Ipomp. Sunday afternoon, we visit.
ed the Royal Botanic Gardens, al
so called Kew Gardens.
The Gardens cover an area of
about three hundred acres and are
situated on the East bank Of the
Thames just above Kew Bridges in
the County of Surrey. The Gardens
date back to 175s when Princess
Augusta initiated a botanical gar
den of about nine acres in extent
in her own private domain of Kew
House which was a venture of her
own in private capacity and this
explains how it comes about that
the most famous botanical garden
in the world is, situated on a soil
originally so infertile and sandy.
For some tine the Gardens were
somewhat neglected but in 1S41 the
Gardens were taken over by the
Estate and soon afterwards the ex-
ltensive gardens and park land of
the two properties were added for
the purposes of the Royal Botanic
Gardens so that now the total ex-
tent is nearly three hundred acres,
inclusive of the Queens Cottage
grounds which were presented by
Queen Victoris in 1893. These
lands were given with the proviso
that they would be maintained in
their semi-wild state.
Several of the buildings at
present in the Gardens were de-
signed by Princess Augustus ar
chitect, Sir William Chambers, who
was responsible for designing the
beautifully proportioned Orangery
which now functions as Museum
No. III, the Pagoda which serves
so admirably as a landmark and
for the ruined arch on the East
side of the Gardens, which is a re.
lie of the romanticism of an earlier
period.
Beauty and Utility
The greater part of the present
gardens was developed by the first
two directors, Sir William and Sir
Joseph Hooker but more recent de.
Ivelopments are the rock gardens
which was established in 1882 and
very much enlarged in 1900. Kew
Gardens primarily serve scientific
purposes. The Institution has as It's
main detectives the accurate iden
Itification of plants and the provi
sion of information in the field Of
botany. both pure and applied.
The gardens were beautiful
There were thousands of tulips II
bloom. Many different kinds o.
Irhododendron. Then there was the
Chalk Garden, the Herbaceous Gar
den, the Wild Garden, Cambridg.
t Cottage Garden, Queens Cottag.
i Grounds, the Rock Garden ana
many other gardens which con
tanned thousands upon thousand
of different kind Of plants ana
flowers.
] The gardens contained may glas
houses containing different kind
of plants at different temperatures
lin the Gardens, there are ais
Imany museums which were yer!
Interesting and contain numersl
pictures of flowers and plants.
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