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INDEX 



Pattern for a parterre, from the " Hyp- 



nerotomachia Poliphili," 22. 

 Patterns for knots, 114. 

 Pavilion, and fountain, 26; at Longleat, 



122; of Venetian garden, 233; the 



Holbein, at Wilton, 243; at Barrow 



Court, 291. 

 Pavilions, at Hatfield, 172; of the Stuart 



period, 190-191 ; in Chinese gardens, 



264. 

 Peaches, first mention of, in England, 79; 



imported into England from abroad, 



97- 



Peacocks, in gardens, 34, 72; as watch- 

 dogs, 109-110. 



Peele, George, recitation of masque written 

 by, 163. 



Pekin, imperial gardens at, 260-261. 



Penshurst, Diana's Pool at, 99, 156; gar- 

 den gates at, 130; leaden urn at, 207; 

 sun-dial at, 288. 



Pepys, Samuel, quoted concerning gar- 

 dens, 1 80. 



Percier and Fontaine, 236, 237. 



Pergola, grotto and, from a wall-painting 

 at Boscoreale, 32; rosary with, at 

 Castle Ashby, 246; rustic, at Castle 

 Ashby, 247; at Longford Castle, 248. 



Peristyle, the, in Greek and Roman 

 houses, 14, 20-21, 25; Greek deriva- 

 tion of the word, 18; resemblance of 

 cloister-garth to, 51. 



Persea fruit defined, 9 n. 



Persia, gardens of, 9-12. 



Petit Trianon, the, 264, 275. 



Pets, domestic, from a Pompeiian mo- 

 saic, 34; mediaeval, 90. 



Philosophers, gardens of Greek, 15-16; 

 " thinking-places " for Roman, 32. 



"Philosophical Transactions," the, 167. 



" Picciola," the Italian story, 70. 



Piccolomini, tineas Silvias, 233. 



"Piers Plowman," quoted, 88. 



Pisa, fourteenth-century frescoes at, 54. 



Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens at, 239. 



Plan of garden from Worlidge's " Systema 

 Horticulture," 185. 



Plant, a potted, 101. 



Plants, of Tudor gardens, 113-114; Ba- 

 con's list of, 150-153 ; Anglo-Saxon, 

 296-297. See Flowers. 



Plato, garden of, 15. 



Platt, Sir Hugh, " Floraes Paradise " of, 

 131; quoted, 148; suggestion for 

 fanciful ornament by, 157. 



Pleasaunce, garland-makers in a, 66; de- 

 velopment of, from the terrace walk, 



7'- 



Pliny (the Elder), quoted concerning 

 Syrians as gardeners, 10; concerning 

 garden of Epicurus at Athens, 15; 

 concerning ancient admiration for gar- 

 dens, 17; on prevalence of ornamental 

 vegetation in Rome, 19; flowers men- 

 tioned by, on account of curative 

 properties, 41. 



Pliny (the Younger), Tusculan villa of, 

 22-24; descriptions by, of various 

 features of his villa, 29-31, 35-36. 



Poitiers, nunnery garden at, 47. 



Pompeii, table from, 20; a fountain at, 

 24; pseudo-urban villas at, 24-25; 

 a bust from, 25 ; exedra from street 

 of the Tombs at, 32 ; fountains at, 

 38; labyrinth sketched on a wall at, 42. 



Pond, an Egyptian, 8; the Eagle, at New- 

 stead Abbey, 61, 62; in North Gar- 

 den, Barrow Court, 290. See Fish- 

 ponds. 



Pond Garden at Hampton Court, 105, 

 106, 112. 



Pope, Alexander, grotto built by, 255- 

 256. 



Posterns for gardens, iio-m, 174. 



Priapus, images of, in classic Italian gar- 

 dens, 37-38. 



Privy Garden at Hatfield, 171. 



"Profils et ornements," etc., Blondel's, 

 207. 



" Profitable Arte of Gardening," Hill's, 

 109. 



Provence, the rose of, 76. 



Quarters, of a knot, 113; in the plan of 

 Tudor gardens, 114, 124; in Eliza- 

 bethan gardens, 147-148. 



Queen Mary's Walk, Hampton Court, 117. 



Quince, an Elizabethan variety of, 151 n. 



Quincunx du Midi, the, 205. 



Quintilian, quoted concerning ornamental 

 kitchen gardens, 28. 



