Kew The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens Book

	Foreword
	Colour Plates
	Introduction
	Acknowledgements
1	A Queen's Garden	1
2	Prince Frederick at Kew	20
3	Princess Augusta's 'earthly Paradise'	30
4	Sir William Chambers contributes	44
5	The Royal Family in residence	64
6	Sir Joseph Banks takes charge	85
7	Publicising Kew	104
8	Collectors and collecting	113
9	Years of neglect	127
10	Sir William Hooker to the rescue	150
11	Kew transformed	169
12	Scientific consolidation	190
13	Overseas activities	206
14	Botanic garden or public park?	223
15	The Ayrton controversy	239
16	Forging colonial links	251
17	An autocrat at Kew	268
18	Imperial Kew	290
19	'The botanical metropolis of the world'	302
20	Towards the future	321
App.1	Some basic facts	357
App.2	Chronology	359
App.3	Bentham-Moxon Trust	385
App.4	Admission of the public	388
App.5	Gates and public entrances	393
App.6	Boundary walls	396
App.7	Trees	397
App.8	Sculpture	400
App.9	Ornamental ironwork	404
App.10	Water supply	406
App.11	Francis Bauer's flower paintings	409
App.12	Kew Green	412
App.13	Brentford and Lot's Aits	420
App.14	Brief biographies	422
App.15	Printed and archival sources for the history of Kew	437
	Bibliography	441
	Abbreviations, Notes and Sources	446
	Index	457