Kew Observatory, 9, 88, 97, 111 Kew, origin of name, 1 Kew Palace, 10, 78, 80, 112, 197 Kew Priory, 143 Kew Volunteers, 149 Kingston, 2 Kirby, Joshua, 129 Kit-Cat Club, 114 Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 114 Kneller Hall, 114 Knight, Charles, 79 Knight, Miss Cornelia, 73 _Lacon_, quoted, 144 Lake, the, 197 Langley, Batty, 91 Lauderdale, Duke of, at Ham House, 87 Lebanon, cedars of, 197 Lely, Sir Peter, 113 Lennox, Lady Sarah, 26 Le Nôtre, 89 Levens Hall, 89 Linnean classification, the, 190 Linnés, the, 102 Lion Gate, the, 197 Liquorice root, 192 Little, John, story of, 141 “Love Lane,” 33 Macaulay, quoted, 47 Macnab, James, 103 Macnab, William, 102 Macnab, William Ramsay, 103 “Maids of Honour,” 8 Mammoth sequoia, 181 Marvell, A., quoted, 93 Mary of Cambridge, Princess, 155 Mason’s _Heroic Epistle_, 95 Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Dowager Grand-Duchess of, 155 Melbourne, giant gum-trees at, 164 “Merlin’s Cave,” 94 Meyer, Jeremiah, 126 Molyneux, Samuel, 11, 87 Monastery of Sheen, the, 83 Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, 123 Moor Park, Hertfordshire, 85 Murray, Miss Amelia, quoted, 124 Museums and Economic Houses, 185 New Zealand Vegetation, 183 Niepce, J. N. de, 146 “No Popery” riots, 34 North Gallery, 199 North, Miss Marianne, 161, 163, 199 Nôtre, Le, 89 Noyes, Mr. A., quoted, 158 Observatory, the, 9, 88, 97, 111 Old Brentford, 132 Old Deer Park, 36, 111, 141 Opium, 192 “Orangery,” the, 190 Orotava, dragon-tree at, 180 Pagoda, the, 1, 96, 197 Palace at Richmond, proposed new, 28 Palm House, 108 Papendiek, Mrs., Memoirs of, 34, 40, 43, 56, 72, 99, 120, 121, 123, 125 Papyrus reeds, 167 Pavilion, the Brighton, 77 Peradenia, Gardens of, 164 Petersham, 114 Phillips’s _Morning’s walk from London to Kew_, 142 Physic Garden, Chelsea, 101 Pond, the, 197 Pope, quoted, 15, 89 Portraits of botanists and explorers, 195 Potato, the, 185 Prain, Colonel, 109 Prince Albert, 110 Prince Frederick of Wales, 11, 15, 88 Prince George of Hanover, 152 Prince Henry, 6 Princess Amelia, 30, 64, 79 Princess Charlotte, 80, 81 “Princess Elizabeth’s House,” 46 Princess Marie’s wedding, 155 Princess Victoria, 81 Pringle, Sir John, 123 Proctor, Richard, 147 Queen Caroline, 9, 10, 116 Queen Charlotte, 27, 68, 80 Queen Elizabeth, 5 Queen Victoria, 112, 149 “Queen’s Cottage,” the, 29, 196 “Queen’s Lodge” at Windsor, 32 Quinine, 193 _Rafflesia_, 162 _Recollections of a Happy Life_, 200 Regency Bill, 53, 62 Regency, the Prince’s, 79 Repton, Humphrey, 93 Richmond, 3, 5, 113, 140 Richmond Gardens, 94, 110