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INDEX 



Austria, English landscape gardens in, 



276. 

 Aviaries, in classic gardens, 33-34 ; 



twelfth-century, 72 ; in Stuart period, 



175 ; in Chinese gardens, 264. 

 Axe of Lycurgus in design of a mosaic 



pavement, 5. 



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Babylon, Hanging Gardens of, II. 



Bacon, Francis, suggestions of, for succes- 

 sion of plants, 150-153 ; contempt of, 

 for images cut in evergreens, 154; on 

 bathing pools, 156; on statuary in 

 gardens, 157; account of the wilder- 

 ness by, 158-159. 



Badminton, grounds at, 212. 



Bagatelle, tomb of a Pharaoh at, 274. 



Bagnaja, the Villa Lante at, 234, 238-239. 



Balustrading, as enclosure for Elizabethan 

 gardens, 139140, 141 ; modern Eng- 

 lish specimens of, 284. 



Banquet, Asshur-bani-pal's, representation 

 of, on marble slab, 1, II. 



Banqueting house, the, in gardens, 116; 

 the Elizabethan, 145 ; at Wimbledon, 

 176-177; at Drayton, 197. 



Barbazon, editor " Lai d'Aristote," 84. 



Barocco period, the, in Italy, 235, 240. 



Karrow Court, pond in North Garden at, 

 290 ; pavilion at, 291 ; gateway and 

 terrace at, 291. 



Barry, Sir Charles, mansions designed by, 

 246. 



Bath-houses, idea of, imported into Eng- 

 land from Palestine, 75. 



Bathing pools in Elizabethan gardens, 

 156. 



Batsford Park, gardens at, 280. 



Battle Abbey, founding of, 5758 ; terrace 

 walk at, 283. 



Baynardes Castle, royal gardens at, 106. 



Beasts, carved, in Tudor gardens, 118; 

 heraldic, at entrances to Elizabethan 

 gardens, 129, 141. See Animals. 



Beaudesart, restoration of garden at, by 

 Repton, 269. 



Beaumont, John, 208 ; work of, at Levens 

 and Hampton Court, 211. 



Becket, Thomas a, Fitzstephen's Life of, 

 quoted, 80. 



Beckett, fishing-lodge at, 169. 

 Beckington, example of garden-house at, 



191. 



Belceil, Prince de Ligne's estate of, 270. 

 Benedictines, era of the, 45-47, 49-50. 

 Berkeley Castle, 70. 



Bird-cage, at Wimbledon, 175; at Mel- 

 bourne, 210, 211. 

 Birds, in classic pleasure grounds, 33-34 ; 



in twelfth-century gardens, 72 ; in 



gardens of the Stuart period, 175; 



in Chinese gardens, 264. 

 Black -Friars, the, 61. 

 Blenheim, Brown's work shown in gardens 



at, 268. 



Blith, Walter, 167. 

 Blois, castle gardens at, 98. 

 Blomfield, R., 282, 299. 

 Blondel, J. F., " Profils et ornements," 



etc., of, 207. 

 Boboli Gardens, the, 239. 

 Bog gardens, 280-281. 

 Borde, Andrew, works on gardening by, 



108-109; quoted, no-ill, 112, 119. 

 Borders, garden, 225-226. 

 Boscoreale, villa rustica at, 21 ; grotto 



and pergola from a wall-painting at, 



32. 



Bosquets at Versailles, 159, 205-206. 

 Botanical gardens, herbaria the beginnings 



of, 80; at Oxford, 170 ; at Kew, 268, 



281. 

 Botany, study of, in James I's period, 



168-169. 



Boughton, grounds at, 212. 

 Bower, Rosamond's, 82, 94. 

 Bowers in English gardens (thirteenth 



century), 92. 

 Bowling, popularity of, in seventeenth 



century, 194. See Games. 

 Bowling-alley, Brockenhurst, 167. 

 Bowling-green, at Berkeley Castle, 70 ; at 



Bramshill, 141 ; at Norton Conyers 



and Levens, 194. 

 Bowling-greens, modern English, 141, 



287-288; in Stuart period, 194; Le 



Blond's advice about, 220. 

 Bowood, fountain at, 192 ; terrace at, 246. 

 Box, use of, in classic gardens, 23, 35, 36, 



39, 41-42 ; in Tudor gardens, 125; in 



Elizabethan gardens, 145, 147, 149 ; 



