Word: kew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many plants are crowded into so small a space, with no chance of properly displaying them, but the new foreman, Mr. Cameron, has shown a great deal of skill in arranging them. He, as well as his first assistant, Mr. Barker. was trained at the royal gardens at Kew, near London. They have given prominence in the arrangement of the plants to those which are likely to be of special interest to visitors who are fond of tropical and subtropical foliage. The experiment of opening the greenhouses on Sundays as well as week days, to visitors, has been successful...
...several new points in its arrangements that will undoubtedly be of great value for future work. A continuous photographic registration of changes in the electricity of the atmosphere has never previously been attempted in this country, and has only twice ever been attempted elsewhere; once at Kew, under Sir William Thompson and Balfour Stewart, and a year ago or so, at Paris, by Mascart, director of the bureau...