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The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to flat
rental London simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive gardens
and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest
London, England. The director is Professor Stephen D. Hopper,
who succeeded Professor Sir Peter Crane.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is also the name of the organisation
that runs Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place gardens in Sussex.
It is an internationally important botanical research and
education institution with 700 staff and an income of ?56
million for the year ended 31 March 2008, flat rental London
as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost 2 million
visits in that year.[1] The gardens are a non-departmental
public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs. Created in 1759,[2] the gardens celebrated
their 250th anniversary in 2009.
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The Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, is responsible for the world’s largest collection of
living plants. The organisation employs more than 650 scientists
flat rental London and other staff. The living collections
include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants, while
the herbarium, which is the largest in the world, has over
7 million preserved plant specimens.
The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations
collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings
of plants. The Kew site includes four Grade I listed flat
rental London buildings and 36 Grade II listed structures
in an internationally significant landscape.[3]
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Kew Gardens originated in the exotic garden at Kew Park
formed by Lord Capel of Tewkesbury. It was enlarged and extended
by Augusta, flat rental London Dowager Princess of Wales,
the widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales, for whom Sir William
Chambers built several garden structures.
One of these, the lofty Chinese pagoda built in 1761 still
remains. George III enriched the gardens, aided by William
Aiton and Sir Joseph Banks. The old Kew Park (by then renamed
the White House), was demolished in 1802. The "Dutch
House" flat rental London adjoining was purchased by
George III in 1781 as a nursery for the royal children. It
is a plain brick structure now known as Kew Palace.
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