INDEX 



[Numbers in heavy-faced type indicate references to illustrations.] 



Abbeys, twelfth-century English, 49-51, 

 57-58. 



Abelard, complaint of Heloise to, con- 

 cerning nuns as gardeners, 48. 



Akadamion, park in the, 16. 



Albert the Great, description of mediaeval 

 orchard by, 96-97. 



Albury, grotto at, designed by Evelyn, 



254. 

 Alcinous, garden of, Homeric description 



of, 13-14; Pliny quoted concerning, 17. 

 Alcove at Arley, 188. 

 "Alexander, Romance of," garden with 



chess-players from the, 82. 

 Alhambra, the, fountains in, 53, 237. 

 Alley, a pleached, Hatfield, 117. 

 Alleys in Elizabethan gardens, 143-144. 



See Walks. 



Alpine gardens, 279-280. 

 Althorpe, Evelyn's mention of gardens at, 



195- 



Alviella, Count Goblet d', quoted, 6. 



Amboise, Cardinal d', garden of, 98-99. 



Ambulationes in classic gardens, 36. 



America, influence of discovery of, on 

 English horticulture, 132-133. 



Amorini, Wilton, 242, 243. 



Animals, in gardens, 33-34, 72,95; carved, 

 in Tudor period, 118, 129; of lead in 

 Labyrinth at Versailles, 206. 



Annesley, specimen of brick garden wall 

 at, 187-188; seventeenth -century ter- 

 races at, 197; terrace walk at, 283. 



Apiaries in classic gardens, 33-34. 



Apostles, the twelve, in topiary work, 153, 

 154- 



Apple, the, in Bacon's succession of plants, 

 151; chief Anglo-Saxon fruit, 297. 



Apuleius, the " Herbarium " of, 296. 



Aquarius, the, in classic Roman villa, 38. 



Arbour, seat, gallery, and, 92; from the 

 " Hypnerotomachia Poliphili," 234. 



Arbours, in mediaeval gardens, 92; in Tu- 

 dor period, 105, 116, 123-124; in 

 Elizabethan gardens, 145; Dutch, 188, 

 250, 251. 



"Arcadia," Sidney's, 128, 156-157. 



Archery. See Games. 



Architects, effective work of, in classic 

 gardens, 28-29; the theory of modern 

 garden, 282-284. 



Architecture of the Normans, 68. 



Archway, at Castle Ashby, 245 ; of yew at 

 Brockenhurst, 287. 



Ariadne, story of, reproduced on a mosaic 

 pavement, 5. 



Arley, buttress of clipped yew at, 154; 

 an alcove at, 188; reproduction of 

 Elizabethan style at, 289. 



Arran, Earl of, received by Queen Eliza- 

 beth in garden at Hampton Court, 

 161-162. 



Art, Roman, Greece as the source of new 

 forms of, 5. 



"Arte of Gardening," Hill's, 129. 



Artichoke garden, Wimbledon, 173, 174. 



Ascott, topiary work at, 154, 285. 



Ashridge, outlines of cloisters at, 65; 

 gardens at, a specimen of Repton's 

 style, 269. 



Assassin, origin of the word, 73. 



Asshur-bani-pal feasting, representation 

 of, on marble slab, 1, II. 



Assyria, gardens of, 9. 



Athens, gardens in ancient, 15-16. 



Atrium, Roman, difference between Gre- 

 cian peristyle and, 20; resemblance of 

 cloister-garth to, 51. 



Attiret, Pere, "Account of the Emperor 

 of China's Gardens near Pekin" by, 

 260-261. 



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