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  xw posted on 07/28/2007
  这些照片都是我JVC摄相机里拽出来的，不够清晰。
  
  只是答应了Lucy的，也不好推辞。千里鹅毛，祝她Alaska好行！
  
  
  Kew Palace
  
  乔治三世疯狂的时候就住在这里。乔治三世是植物迷，他的疯狂是血
  液病，再加上放血太多，我是这么听说的。
  
  瞧他的花园搞得多用心！
  
  有一部他的电影，说里面的场景不对。
  
  
  Queen Charlotte's Cottage
  
  Queen Charlotte是George III的生母。她的Cottage多朴素啊！
  
  
  这里Cottage附近的一只景鸡。
  
  
  日本园中的Quince
  
  
  Duke园中的Yarrow
  
  
  Alpine House
  
  捕蝇草(Venus FlyTrap )形的温室。
  
  献丑了。
  

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  Re: Kew Garden
  #1 qinggang posted on 07/28/2007
  
  
  On 3 July 2003 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was officially inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.
  The eminence of Kew today is thanks to a succession of avid collectors, visionary scientists, inspired landscape architects and redoubtable gardeners who, over the centuries, have grown and developed the gardens, and the collections they contain.
  
  
  1773-1820: George III and Joseph Banks
  These were interesting times. George III was described in a Victorian encyclopaedia as "brave, honest and religious; representing the ordinary Englishman". In his reign, Britain was becoming industrialised, laying the foundation for its later status as the richest country in the world. Along the way, America declared its independence, the French revolution erupted and the Napoleonic wars broke out. At Kew, both the gardens and the attitude to botany changed for all time.
  
  'Farmer' George and his 'ferme ornée'
  His passionate interest in agriculture earned George III the nickname of 'Farmer' George. He converted several areas in the Gardens to arable cultivation including: "land cropp'd with oats and barley from Stafford Walk to Pagoda" and another 23 acres "cropp'd with turnips and buckwheat". Sheep were grazed in the Gardens to cut the Great Lawns, a common practice in the 18th and 19th centuries. The sheep at Richmond and Kew were part of an experiment by 'Farmer' George to improve the genetic stock of British sheep by crossbreeding with the Spanish Merino. Since the Spanish guarded their lucrative Merinos very closely, Sir Joseph Banks reputedly organised a smuggling expedition from Spain, via Portugal, to bring the King the sheep he desired. This Spanish flock was kept at Kew and Windsor and was publicly auctioned on 15th August 1804 in the field below the Pagoda.
  
  George III's use of the Gardens as an elaborate 'ferme ornée' harks back to Bridgeman's innovative incorporation of fields into his landscape designs at Richmond a century earlier. The 'ferme ornée' in Britain was a phenomenon peculiar to the 18th and 19th centuries. Stephen Switzer is acknowledged as the first advocate and practitioner of this form of landscape design in Britain and in his book "The Nobleman, Gentleman and Gardener's Recreation", he describes the practice of the ferme ornée as: "By mixing the useful and profitable parts of Gard'ning with the Pleasurable in the Interior Parts of my Designs and Paddocks, obscure enclosures, etc. in the outward, My Designs are thereby vastly enlarg'd and both Profit and Pleasure may be agreeably mix'd together".
  
  George's 'ferme ornée' at Richmond and Kew may have owed rather more to a wish to reclaim agricultural land from an ornamental landscape, than a desire such as Switzer's to marry the ornamental and practical for aesthetic effect. However, the end result of both these approaches is very similar in appearance.
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  'ferme ornée' from my francaise dictionary,maybe can be translated "decorative farm".
  right or wrong,xw?
  
  
  
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  Re: Kew Garden
  #2 闃挎収 posted on 07/28/2007
  
  
  里面的中国塔看到没?
  
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  Re: Kew Garden
  #3 xw posted on 07/28/2007
  
  
  
  

  George's 'ferme ornée' at Richmond and Kew may have owed rather more to a wish to reclaim agricultural land from an ornamental landscape, than a desire such as Switzer's to marry the ornamental and practical for aesthetic effect. However, the end result of both these approaches is very similar in appearance.
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  'ferme ornée' from my francaise dictionary,maybe can be translated "decorative farm".
  right or wrong,xw?
  

  should be right, it's french.
  

  
  
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  Re: Kew Garden
  #4 xw posted on 07/28/2007
  
  
  thanks qinggang for those info.
  
  

  George's 'ferme ornée' at Richmond and Kew may have owed rather more to a wish to reclaim agricultural land from an ornamental landscape, than a desire such as Switzer's to marry the ornamental and practical for aesthetic effect. However, the end result of both these approaches is very similar in appearance.
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  'ferme ornée' from my francaise dictionary,maybe can be translated "decorative farm".
  right or wrong,xw?
  

  should be right, it's french.
  

  
  
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  Re: Kew Garden
  #5 xw posted on 07/28/2007
  
  
  
  

  阿慧 wrote:
  里面的中国塔看到没?
  

  
  yes, it's not a real chinese pagoda, it's inspired by chinese pagoda.
  
  10 stories level.
  
  10 is not a chinese number.
  
  
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  Re: Kew Garden
  #6 lucy posted on 08/08/2007
  
  
  谢谢！ 好美丽的照片！
  
  我这次照了很多的花草的照片， 过些天会贴出来！
  
  最喜欢 fireweed!
  
  

  xw wrote:
  这些照片都是我JVC摄相机里拽出来的，不够清晰。
  只是答应了Lucy的，也不好推辞。千里鹅毛，祝她Alaska好行！
  

  
  

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