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INDEX 



239; vase at, 244; stone seat at, 245; 

 Italian garden at, 245-246; doorway 

 at, 277; seat of Italian design at, 293. 



Shrubs in modern English gardens, 285. 



Side-door to a garden, 174. 



Sidney, Sir Philip, 128, 158; description 

 of fish-pond by, 156-157. 



Silvestre, Israel, engraving by, 206. 



" Solitary or Carthusian Gardener, The," 

 Le Gentil's, 212. 



South Kensington Museum, fountain de- 

 picted in tapestry at, 93. 



Sphere, an armillary, 119. 



Stafford, Edward, residence of, 103. 



"Staffordshire," Plot's, 182. 



Statuary, in classic Roman gardens, 37- 

 38 ; in Elizabethan gardens, Bacon's 

 opinion of, 157; in English seven- 

 teenth-century gardens, 192-193 ; 

 at Versailles, 207; Le Blond on, 

 230-231; at Longford Castle, 247; 

 in modern English gardens, 288. 



Statues, leaden, at Newstead Abbey, 64, 

 65; at Canons Ash by, 182. 



Steps, stone, at Drayton, 196. 



Stowe, gardens at, 268. 



Strabo, dimensions of terraces in Hang- 

 ing Gardens of Babylon given by, 1 1. 



Subiaco, St. Benedict's " roseto " at, 46. 



Sudeley Castle, gardens at, 100. 



Sun-dial, a classic, 17; at Whitehall, 

 155; at Shrublands, 157; at Drayton, 

 170, 197; at Packwood, 191; at 

 Brympton, 197; at Hampton Court, 

 209; at Levens, 211; an eighteenth- 

 century, 250; at Penshurst, 288; at 

 Old Place, Lingfield, 288. 



Sun-dials, stone, at Pompeii, 25 ; illustra- 

 tions of, 157, 167; English interest in 

 (sixteenth century), 118-119; at Ox- 

 ford, 119, 193. 



Sun-traps at Barrow Court, 291. 



Surflet, translation of " Maison Rustique " 

 by, quoted, 137-138. 



Surprise fountains, 155-156. 



Surveys, Parliamentary, 173, 191. 



Sutton Court, grotto at, 254. 



Swallowfield, Evelyn's description of gar- 

 dens at, 195-196. 



Swanopston Hall, examples of posterns 

 for gardens at, in. 



Symmetry in gardens, abuse of, 250-252. 



Syracuse, hanging gardens at, 12. 



" Systema Horticulture or Art of Garden- 

 ing," Worlidge's, 182; plan of garden 

 from, 185. 



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Table, a Pompeiian, 20. 



Tacitus, on horticulture in Great Britain, 3. 



"Tale of the Garden of Flowers, The," 

 extract from, 9. 



Tapestries, in Cluny Museum, 75, 90; at 

 South Kensington Museum, 93. 



Tattershall, castle of, 77. 



Tel-el- Amarna, engraving on the tomb of, 

 7-8. 



Temple, Sir William, quoted concerning 

 the Oriental Paradise, 10. 



Temple of ^olus at Kew, 267. 



Temple of the Sun, Kew, 268. 



Temple at Tivoli, Lorraine's painting of, 

 249. 



Temples, garden, 268, 269, 270, 277. 



Tennis in Queen Elizabeth's time, 158. 

 See Games. 



Tennis-courts, modern English, 287. 



Tents, idea of, as accessories to gardens, 

 due to Crusaders, 75. 



Terrace, and bowling-green, at Bramshill, 

 141; relation between garden and, 

 142; at Brympton, 179; at Bowood, 

 246; at Harewood, 246; gateway and, 

 at Barrow Court, 291. 



Terrace architecture, modern English, 

 283-284. 



Terraces, of Hanging Gardens of Baby- 

 lon, 1 1 ; of Anglo-Norman castles, 70- 

 71; at St. Catherine's Court, 139; in 

 connection with Elizabethan houses, 

 141-142; at Hatfield, 172; seven- 

 teenth-century, at Brympton and 

 Annesley, 179, 197; Le Blond's 

 theory of, 223-224. 



Terrace steps, Shrublands, 140. 



Terrace walks, 70-71, 283. 



Tessala, in mosaic pavements, 4. 



Theatre d'Eau, the, at Versailles, 205, 

 206-207. 



"Theatrum Botanicum," Parkinson's, 169. 



Thebes, hanging gardens at, 12. 



Theobalds, Hentzner's description of, 

 163-164; exchanged by Earl of Salis- 



