Kew Gardens Horticulture

669. At Kew Gardens in 1678 (Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 17.), 'Sir Henry Capel has the choicest plantation of fruit in England, as he is the most industrious and most understanding in it.' Daines Barrington (Archﾵologia, vol. viii. p. 122.) considers Lord Capel to have been the first person of consequence in England, who was at much expense in his gardens, having brought over with him many new fruits from France.