Coloured postcard of the rock garden at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Pencil: Dear Mrs / I am writing from Aunts at Yealmpton where I have been to spend a little time hope you are both well also hope to see you tomorrow evening E.N. tell Mary I will relieve her [address in Plymouth supplied]. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew were formerly the grounds of Kew Palace, and developed as a botanic garden by the Earl of Bute, followed by Sir Joseph Banks; after a report compiled by John Lindley, Joseph Paxton, and John Wilson, they were officially designated the Royal Botanic Gardens, with Sir William Jackson Hooker as their first Director, in 1843. Sir William Chambers' orangery and rocky arch survive, along with various later temples; the major buildings created in the 1840s and after were the Palm House, the Victoria House, and the Temperate House. The rock garden was created in the 1880s