is a series of works cataloguing the plant species in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Kew became a favored location for English courtiers after the establishment of Richmond Palace nearby under the Tudors.
Frederick then leased Kew House, began planning an enormous greenhouse, and had his close friend John Stuart, earl of Bute, begin requesting plant specimens from British agents around the world.
[2] After his death, Frederick's widow Augusta expanded its gardens still further in cooperation with Bute and William Aiton.
[9] Solander, Dryander, and Brown were the successive librarians and curators of Joseph Banks's collections,[6] who had presumably directed Aiton to compile his index of the Kew Garden to aid his own Florilegium.