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...By 1700, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, was growing masses of half-hardy plants indoors in her London mansion near the Chelsea Physic Garden....
...A prize in the show is the illustrated flora of exotic plants commissioned by the Duchess of Beaufort in 1703 and begun by the able artist Everhard Kick....
...Reading Robin Lane Fox’s typically delightful column about the Badminton House gardens (House & Home, June 29) reminded me of the tale in James Pope-Hennessy’s wonderfully funny book The Quest for Queen...
...“It’s not pandemonium but it’s not pretty,” said Remy Baquiche, a stockbroker at Beaufort Securities. “The phones aren’t ringing, and if they are it’s ‘how long is this going to go on for’.”...
...She would have been a natural for today’s Beaufort hunt in the heyday of Prince Charles....
...The challenging conditions of the Arctic suit its strategy of making big bets on technology, according to Robin West of PFC Energy, the consultancy....
...The official communiqué from the meeting did say that Japan’s economic recovery was on course and expected to continue, though Stephen Lewis, economist at Insinger de Beaufort, was sceptical....
...Notting Hill in west London, he hears, has already been staked out by some particularly vicious foxes from the Beaufort hunt country, but he is going to show his fangs a little further to the east in Connaught...
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