Rbg Kew Collection (page 4)

Stereograph, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
This stereograph of the interior of one of the T-Range glasshouses shoes a sign requesting visitors to keep to the right and to refrain from touching the plants

Kew Green, Richmond, at the end of the August Bank Holiday, 1926
Kew Green, Richmond, at the end of the August Bank Holiday celebrations, 1926. William Dallimore, Keeper of the Museums of Economic Botany, Kew Gardens, described a Bank Holiday in the 1890 s

Amorphophallus titanum flowering, 1901
The Titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum is known as the corpse flower in its native Indonesia because of the rancid smell, described by Curtiss Botanical magazine as a mixture of rotten fish

Kew Road and Entrance to Kew Gardens
A horse-drawn trolley bus and a horse and cart in Kew Road, close to the entrance of Kew Gardens. Trolley buses such as these ran from the Orange Tree public house near Richmond Station to Kew Bridge

Kew Pier and steam boat
Steam boats were introduced in 1816. Initially they went straight to Richmond without stopping at Kew but eventually a stop at Kew Pier was added

Gardening equipment, RBG Kew
Wheelbarrow and gardening equipment, RBG Kew

Rose garden refurbishment, preparing the ground, RBG Kew

Planting out bedding

Preparing the soil for Palm House bedding plants
Gardeners prepare the soil for the Palm House bedding plants, RBG Kew

Hedge trimming, RBG Kew

Kew gardener with wheelbarrow. Verbena bonariensis in the foreground, the Orangery building in the background, RBG Kew

Planting out bedding, RBG Kew

Vegetable plot
Detail of horticulture students vegetable plot, with pansies, RBG Kew

J. A. Simon, gardener at Kew in the 1940 s, had been a farmer in Alderney, the Channel Islands, before fleeing the German occupation in World War II

Some of Kews female staff, 1942
Some of Kews female staff are shown here in 1942. Back row (l to r) Jessie F Pedgrift, Violet M Clark, Jean E Sharps, Freda Mundy

Female gardener, RBG Kew, World War II
Preparing terracotta pots for planting. Women gardeners were employed at Kew during World War II, after an interval of nearly a quarter of a century

Women gardeners at Kew, 1939-1945
Female gardener in springtime, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, WWII (1939-1945)

Kew Plant Collector
RBG Kew botanist collecting seeds on an expedition to Tasmania, Australia, 2005

Seed Collection in the Namibian Desert
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, RBG Kew botanists seed collecting expedition to Namibia, 2007

Studying Kniphofia (red hot pokers) on an RBG Kew expedition to Malawi
A botanist from RBG Kew studies a Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker flower) in the field, Malawi, southeastern Africa, 2007

RBG Kew expedition to Malawi
RBG Kew botanist begins the day on expedition to Mozambique, 2007

Baobab (Adansonia) and Sisal (Agave sisalana) near Berenty nature reserve, Madagascar

RBG Kew expedition to the British Virgin Islands, 2000
A botanist taking notes on an RBG Kew expedition to the British Virgin Islands, 2000

Plant Pressing in Camp, Brunei
A botanist from RBG Kew pressing plants collected on an RBG Kew expedition to Brunei, 1990

Polemonium caeruleum (Jacobs ladder, Greek valerian). Family: Polemoniaceae

Carnegiea gigantea. Family: Cactaceae

Parodia mueller-melchersii ssp. mueller-melchersii. Cactus. Family: Cactaceae

Mammillaria mystax
CACTACEAE, Mammillaria, mystax, 2005745BCSO

Echinopsis spiniflora. Family: Cactaceae

Echinocereus pamanesiorum. Cactus. Family: Cactaceae

Echinopsis huascha. Family: Cactaceae

Echinocereus baileyi var. brunispinus
CACTACEAE, Echinocereus, baileyi, var, brunispinus, 1999609DHEG

Pilosocereus catingicola. Family: Cactaceae

Rhipsalis baccifera (mistletoe cactus). Family: Cactaceae. An epiphytic cactus which originates from Central and South America, the Caribbean and Florida

Borago officinalis (borage). Family: Boraginaceae

Epimedium wushanense, (the Wushan fairy wings). Family: Berberidaceae

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