page_title: Kew Palace
section_title: Augusta and George III
hierarchical_section_title: Kew Palace / History / Augusta and George III
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: gardenerschronic321lond (find matches) Title: The Gardeners' chronicle&#160;: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects Year: 1874 (1870s) Authors: Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening Publisher: London&#160;: (Gardeners Chronicle) Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: likewise in the same spanroofed house Lilium longiflorum variety, and the white-flowered Hydrangea Dr.Hogg. Another house was filled with Caladiums of a useful size, with plants of Gardenia floribunda filling a bench at the back of the house. Plants of Bougainvillea speciosa and Stephanotis partially clothed the roof and the back wall. In one, and were slightly shaded overhead by the growths of Niphetos and Celine Forestier Roses. The beautiful Cassia corymbosa loaded with its orange-coloured sprays of flowers, and a plant of Bougainvillea, occupied places on the backwall. Numerous plants of Cliveia miniata invariety were making growth here. Kitchen Gardens. This most important adjunct to the royal residence covers in all about 50 acres, a large portion being enclosed within walls 12 feet high. Having so large an area to deal with, the gardener finds the plough and harrow and the horse-hoe more economical implements than the spade, rake, and hand-hoe to employ in breaking up and tilling the land. Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 14.—kew palace, in the royal gardens, kew. (Photographed for the Gardeners Chronicle by J. Gregory. See p. 395.) a stove we came across an enormous plant of the Dove Orchid, Peristeria elata, the butts of whose flower-stems measured three quarters of an inch in diameter, a good indication of what their strength had been. Some choice species of Palms were found here, namely, Licualagrandis, a Dsemonorops, some capital Marantas, Dieffenbachia Bausei, several Nepenthes with pitchers, viz., Curtisii, mixta, Dicksouiana, Amesiana, Hookeriana, Mastersiana, Sc. Besides these fine subjects there was theu sual assortment of tropical foliage plants. The now popular Carina occupied a small house, and was representedby a number of the newer continental varieties. The collection of foliage plants overflows into still another house, and hero were the Codiseums (Crotons), Pandanads, Dracaenas, Aculyphas, Ixoras, and other showy plants. Examples of Lilium speciosum were being forced into bloom in a house adjoi Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Kew Palace is a British royal palace in Kew Gardens on the banks of the River Thames up river from London. Originally a large complex, few elements of it survive. Dating to 1631 but built atop the undercroft of an earlier building, the main survivor is known as the Dutch House. Its royal occupation lasted from around 1728 until 1818, with a final short-lived occupation in 1844. The Dutch House is Grade I listed, and open to visitors. It is cared for by an independent charity, Historic Royal Palaces, which receives no funding from the government or the Crown. Alongside the Dutch House is a part of its 18th-century service wing, whilst nearby are a former housekeeper's cottage, brewhouse and kitchen block – most of these buildings are private, though the kitchens are open to the public. These kitchens and Queen Charlotte's Cottage are also run by Historic Royal Palaces.
context_section_description: Frederick began remodelling the gardens associated with the White House, but "after staying all day in the garden till night, in the damp rain and hail to look at his workmen" in 1751 he caught a chill which – combined with a pulmonary embolism – proved fatal. His widow Augusta continued living at the White House with their children and remodelling the gardens. She was advised by her husband's friend John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and assisted by Sir William Chambers, one of the greatest masters of ornamental English gardening.
  Frederick's sister Amelia was probably still in the Dutch House throughout the 1730s and 1740s, but seems to have moved out in 1751 when she was made ranger of Richmond Park, which came with a residence at White Lodge. This meant the Dutch House could become a schoolhouse for Augusta's two eldest sons, George (the future George III) and Edward, where they were taught by Bute and Chambers. In 1760 George took the throne and a year later he married Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, moving into Richmond Lodge as his summer residence as his family grew – he and Charlotte had fifteen children between 1762 and 1783.
  Chambers built the Orangery and Pagoda at Kew for Augusta in 1761–62 but later in that decade she mainly lived at Carlton House. However, Augusta nominally retained the Dutch House and White House until her death in 1772, when they passed to George, who demolished Richmond Lodge and switched his summer residence to the White House. He also used the latter building to house some of his art collection, including a number of Canaletto's works and The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Zoffany, who lived nearby and is buried at St Anne's Church.
  George continued the Dutch House's use as a schoolhouse, now for his two eldest sons George and Frederick. This led to it being known as 'the Prince of Wales's House' or 'the House Late the Prince of Wales's', though the future George IV never lived in it after his childhood. Small households of royal children were lodged in houses on Kew Green and the royal governess Lady Charlotte Finch also lived locally – in a watercolour of c. 1771–72 she is shown in the grounds of the Dutch House with some of the children.
  A map of 1771 delineated the land between the Dutch House and the river as still belonging to barrister Levett Blackborne, Lincoln's Inn barrister and grandson of Sir Richard Levett. This reflects the fact that the buildings and grounds were only leased by the royal family right up until 13 October 1781, when George III purchased the freehold from the Levetts for £20,000. Seven years later, George was kept in the White House during his first bout of 'madness' from November 1788 to March 1789, with his wife Charlotte and their daughters living on the upper floors and the Grooms of the Bedchamber in the Dutch House. The White House was then allowed to fall into disrepair, though it still proved possible to house him there during the second bout in 1801, whilst Charlotte and her daughters moved into the Dutch House to await news of George's recovery. The White House was finally demolished in 1802 and so on the onset of the third bout of 'madness' in 1804 George was housed in an upgraded single-storey service wing of the Dutch House and possibly also on the ground floor of the Dutch House, with Charlotte and the princesses on the Dutch House's first and second floors. (That service wing was mainly demolished in 1881 but originally connected directly onto the west side of the Dutch House.)
caption: An 1897 photograph of the palace showing (left) the remnants of the service wing in which George was housed in 1804 and (right) the original site of the Tompion sundial
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