Contents
Foreword
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. A Queen's Garden
Chapter 2. Frederick Prince of Wales
Chapter 3. Princess Augusta's 'Earthly Paradise'
Chapter 4. Sir William Chambers
Chapter 5. King George III
Chapter 6. Sir Joseph Banks
Chapter 7. Publicising Kew
Chapter 8. Collectors and Collecting
Chapter 9. Years of Neglect
Chapter 10. Sir William Hooker
Chapter 11. Kew Transformed
Chapter 12. Scientific Consolidation
Chapter 13. Overseas Activities
Chapter 14. Botanic Garden or Public Park
Chapter 15. The Ayrton Controversy
Chapter 16. Forging Colonial Links
Chapter 17. An Autocrat at Kew
Chapter 18. Imperial Kew
Chapter 19. 'The Botanical Metropolis of the World'
Chapter 20. Postwar Recovery
Chapter 21. Sir Ghillean Prince
Chapter 22. World Heritage Site
Appendices
1. Some Basic Facts
2. Chronology
3. Bentham-Moxon Trust
4. Admission of the Public
5. Gates and Public Entrances
6. Boundary Walls
7. Trees
8. Sculpture
9. Ornamental Ironwork
10. Water Supplies
11. Francis Bauer's Flower Paintings
12. Kew Green
13. Kew Palace
14. The River Thames
15. Gardening Staff
16. Brief Biographies
17. Printed and Archival Sources for the History of Kew
Selected Bibliography
Index