Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, South Kensington, sketched in 1861. Near the south-east side of the Royal Albert Hall, was bounded by an elaborate, heavily architectured Italian garden, which fell away in terraces to a southern boundary about where the Science Museum now stands. This garden, of some twenty acres, was maintained by the Royal Horticultural Society from 1861 to around 1886 with a great conservatory, spiral shrubs and statuary standing among stone-edged canals and box-embroideries of coloured gravel

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