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1841_1885: The Expansion of Kew

Joseph Hooker

The Pagoda

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Cedar Vista

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Cedar Vista

Although the longest and perhaps the most impressive of the seven avenues radiating out from the Pagoda, Pagoda Vista is not one of Nesfield's designs, but was laid out by Joseph Hooker in 1871. It opened up the National Arboretum to visitors and visually linked the Thames at one extremity with the Pagoda at the other.

Hooker planted Cedar Vista, appropriately enough, with Atlantic cedars as far as the walk that surrounded the Lake. However, a replanting of the vista was undertaken in 1923-24 by Sir Arthur William Hill, Director of Kew from 1922-1941, because the trees had been severely affected by constant clipping. As part of the replanting, Hill also sanctioned the widening of the vista by 40 feet.

Passing, as it does, the Waterlily Pond, Woodland Glade and the Lake, Cedar Vista is popular with visitors making their way from one side of Kew's historic Gardens to the other.

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