KEW village in Surrey (England), on the south bank of the Thames, 12 km (7.5 miles) south-west of St. Paul in London, famous for its Royal Botanic Garden, the richest in the world, comprising 75 acres. It contains, among innumerable treasures, a considerable collection of trees and plants from Australia.
 
Extract from the Trousset encyclopedia, 1886 – 1891.

All the Paris newspapers have recently paid, for compensation for oblivion and the misfortunes of his life, a fair tribute of praise to the memory of Frederic Sauvage, inventor of the propeller. (See issue 753 of l’Illustration).
Today we have to add to the martyrology of inventors the name of Jean-Augustin-Alexis Sauvage, another engineer-inventor-mechanic, who just died in Passy. Would it then be true, as it has been said, that every man of genius …Read more »

LILAC substantive (Persian, lilac). Botany – Genus of Oleineae, in the subfamily Fraxineae, which includes several species of ornamental shrubs that bloom in early spring and bear small flowers, in numerous and very fragrant bunches: white lilac, red or purple lilac.
- Adjectiv. Blue mixed with red, which is usually …Read more »