The 'bus roared up the canyons of the City, and its voice accompanied Kew in his tuneful meditations.

"I didn't know you weren't in Heaven," said Kew to Jay.

The principle work of the staff is the correct identification of the specimens which reach Kew from every part of the world, and their incorporation in the Herbarium.

Mrs. Russell was so much interested in what she was saying that she left Kew on her leeward side for the moment, hardly looking at him as she shook hands.

When I went to bed that night, I willed to be in the front bedroom of that house at Kew at twelve; and to make my presence felt by the inmates.

The result of this experiment, together with a few particulars as to the esculent properties of the tubers, may be worth recording, as I believe several gardeners, among them being the Messrs. Sutton, have obtained tubers of the Ullucus from Kew with a view to giving it a trial.

As he did so, a fat, heavy man, with a white face and pale grey eyesBindon, the professor of botany, who came up from Kew for January and Februarycame in by the lecture theatre door, and passed, rubbing his hands together and smiling, in silent affability down the laboratory.

He never tried to make a fine Kew of himself; he never propounded riddles to his Creator, which is the way most of us make our reputations.