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  2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Wikipedia

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    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. [ 1 ]

  3. Kew Gardens - Wikipedia

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    Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". [1] Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa [ 2 ] curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , while the herbarium , one of the largest ...

  4. Palm House, Kew Gardens - Wikipedia

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    The Palm House at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Audio description of the Palm House by Baroness Lola Young. The Palm House is a large palm house in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, that specialises in growing palms and other tropical and subtropical plants. It was completed in 1848.

  5. Kew - Wikipedia

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    Kew (/ k j uː /) is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. [2] Its population at the 2011 census was 11,436. [1] Kew is the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens ("Kew Gardens"), now a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace.

  6. Curators of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Wikipedia

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    The post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was established in 1841. [1] When the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew came into state ownership in 1841 Sir Willian Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) was appointed its first Director. [1] Over the period 1841 to 1856 Hooker established four curatorial posts at Kew, namely:

  7. Great Pagoda, Kew Gardens - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens in southwest London was built in 1761 by Sir William Chambers as a present for Princess Augusta, the founder of the gardens.Constructed of grey brick, the pagoda comprises 10 storeys, totalling 163 ft (50 m) in height, [2] with 253 steps to the viewing gallery. [3]

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