INDEX 



319 



Musea, defined, 32. 



Museum. See British Museum, Cluny 

 Museum, South Kensington Museum. 



N 



" Names of Herbes," Turner's, 108. 

 Narcissus at a fountain (" Roman de la 



Rose "), 56. 

 "Natural History," Pliny's, quoted, 10, 



19; flowers specially mentioned in, 41. 

 Neckam, Alexander, on gardens, 108. 

 New College garden, Oxford, sun-dial in, 



193- 

 New Orchard, Henry VIII's, at Hampton 



Court, 121. 



" New Orchard and Garden, A," Law- 

 son's, 131. 

 Newstead Abbey, description of, 61-65; 



Byron's dog's grave at, 62, 267 ; statues 



at, 64, 65. 

 Nightingales, Lawson quoted concerning, 



161. 

 Nonesuch, royal garden at, 106, 162 ; 



water-works devices at, 155. 

 Normans, effect of advent of, in England, 



57-58. 66. 



Norton Conyers, bowling-green at, 194. 

 Nuneham, specimen of Brown's work in 



gardens at, 268. 



Nun Moncton, garden-house at, 191. 

 Nuns, gardens made by, 47-48. 



O 

 Obelisks in English seventeenth-century 



gardens, 192193. 

 " Observations on Landscape Gardening," 



Repton's, 259. 

 " Odyssey," description in, of garden of 



Alcinous, 13-14. 



" Of Agriculture," Varro's, quoted, 32-33. 

 Old Man of the Mountain, the (Prince 



Hassan), 73. 



Old Place, Lingfield, sun-dial at, 288, 289. 

 "On Gardens," Bacon's essay, quoted, 



156; account of wilderness in, 158- 



159- 

 Orangery, the, at Longleat, 126; the old, 



at Kew, 167; at Wimbledon, 192; at 



Drayton, 196; at Versailles, 204-205; 



at Wilton, 245. 

 Orchard, at Clairvaux, 59-60; at New- 



stead, 64 ; identity of garden and, in 

 Middle Ages, 67, 96-97 ; in Tudor 

 period, 121 ; in Queen Elizabeth's 

 time, 159-161; at Swallowfield, 195; 

 derivation of the word, 297. 



" Orchard and Garden," Lawson's, quoted, 

 159-161. 



Orchards, The, garden-house and wall at, 

 278; garden at, 292. 



Ornaments, garden, in Elizabethan times, 

 157; in late seventeenth century, 192- 



193- 



" Ortus Sanitatus," the, 107. 



Oundle, doorway at, 141. 



Oxford, sun-dials at, 119, 193; walks at, 

 143; botanical garden at, 170; artifi- 

 cial bog at, 280. 



Oxford, Earl of, Sidney's quarrel with, 

 158. 



Packwood, gateway at, 131, 187, 188; 

 garden-houses at, 145, 146, 193, 194; 

 topiary work at, 146, 153-154; sun- 

 dial at, 191. 



Paintings, mural, of Egypt, 8-9. 



Palazzio Vecchio, Florence, fountain at, 

 233. 



Palestine, idea of bath-houses imported 

 into England from, 75. 



Palisades for enclosing gardens, 188. 



Paradeisoi, the Grecian, 10. 



Paradise, the Oriental, 10-12; of Sardis, 

 12; in monastic cloisters, 54; of the 

 Old Man of the Mountain, 73-74. 



Pare Monceau, rusticity at, 274-275. 



Parkinson, John, "Theatrum Botanicum" 

 of, 169, 171. 



Parnassus Mount at Whitehall, 146. 



Parterre, design for a, xi ; geometric pat- 

 tern for a, 27 ; geometric patterns of, 

 at Battle Abbey gardens, 58 ; at New- 

 stead Abbey, 62; in Tudor gardens, 

 124125; in Elizabethan gardens, 153- 

 157; according to Le Blond, 217-218; 

 French fashions in, 224-225. See 

 Xystus. 



Passe, Crispin de, engravings by, 145. 



" Pastime of Pleasure," Hawes', 84, 89. 



Pater, Walter, quotation from translation 

 of Theocritus by, 16-17. 



