INDEX 



Hasheesh, origin of the word, 73. 



Hassan, Prince, garden of, 73-74. 



Hatfield, a pleached alley at, 117, 144; 

 gardens at, 136, 171-173; pavilions 

 at, 172. 



Hatton Grange, stew-pond at, 65. 



Hedges, for enclosing gardens, 88, no, 

 123-124, 140; Le Blond quoted con- 

 cerning, 226-230 ; in modern English 

 gardens, 286. 



Helmingham, moat retained at, 105 ; 

 Queen Elizabeth at, 163. 



Helolse, on nuns as gardeners, 48. 



Henry VIII, dissolution of monasteries by, 

 65 ; changes in Hampton Court gar- 

 dens by, 106-107, IJ 8; fondness of, 

 for tennis, 120. 



Hentzner, at Oxford, 143 ; on gardens at 

 Nonesuch, 155156, 162; description 

 of Theobalds by, 163. 



" Herbal," Turner's, 108. 



Herbals of the Tudor period, 107-108, < 

 129. 



Herbaries, early English, 57. 



Herbs, Anglo-Saxon, 296. 



Hermes, from the " Hypnerotomachia 

 Poliphili," 37 ; and fence (initial let- 

 ter), 278. 



Hesperides, gardens of the, Pliny quoted 

 concerning, 17. 



Highlow Hall, doorway at, 168. 



Hill, Thomas, 109, 130; " Arte of Garden- 

 ing" by, 129. 



Hinchinbrooke, grounds at, 212. 



Hippodrome, Greek derivation of the 

 word, 18; the classic, defined, 34-35. 



" History of Domestic Manners," Wright's, 

 cited, 298. 



" History of Life and Death, The," 152 n. 



Hoddesdon, Gothic dairy at, 274. 



Holbein pavilion at Wilton, 243, 244. 



Holborn Hill, market gardens on, 79-80. 



Holdenby House, ponds in grounds of, 



'57- 



Holinshed, Ralph, 133. 

 Holland, importations into England from, 



1 68, 252, 254. 

 Holland, P., quotations from translation 



of Pliny's "Natural History" by, 10, 



19. 

 Holme Lacey, the garden at, attributed to 



Le Notre, 208 ; Le Notre's influence 

 apparent at, 21 1. 



Horace, revolt of, against life of pseudo- 

 urban villas, 43. 



Horseley Castle, Syrian daffodils on site 

 of, 76. 



Horticulture, under the Romans in Britain, 

 2-3 ; in primitive Italy merely intended 

 for practical purposes, 5 ; Benedictine, 

 in England, 45-47, 49-50 ; Cistercian, 

 in England, 5859 ; under Edward I 

 of England, 78-80; early English 

 works on, 107108, 129; range of, 

 increased by discovery of America, 

 132-133; in the seventeenth century 

 in England, 178-179; Anglo-Saxon, 

 295-298. 



" Hortorum Viridariorumque," Vrede- 

 man's, 144. 



" Hortus Floridus," de Passe's engravings 

 in, 145. 



House. See Dwelling. 



Humanists, the, 233. 



" Hundredth Pointes of Good Husbandrie, 

 A," Tusser's, 109. 



Hunstanston, the moat at, 105. 



" Hypnerotomachia Poliphili," the, 27, 

 233 ; illustrations from, ix, 22, 26, 27, 

 37,39, 115,234, 237. 



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Iford Manor, summer-house at, 191. 

 Images, in classic Italian gardens, 37; 



cut in evergreen trees, 153-154. 

 Impluvium, the Roman, resemblance of 



Christian cloisters to, 51-52. 

 Ingestre, house and grounds at, 182. 

 Isola Bella, Boboli Gardens, 239. 

 Italy, horticulture in ancient, 5 ; increase 



of pleasure gardens in, crowds out 



other gardens, 18; information sought 



from, in Elizabethan period, 129; 



sixteenth-century villa gardens of, 



234-240. See Rome. 

 "Itinerary," Leland's, quoted, 121. 



J 

 James I, botanical gardens in reign of, 



168-169. 

 James, John, translation of Le Blond's 



work by, 213. 



