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INDEX 



Vicllet le Due, description by, of eleventh- 

 century religious development, 48-49; 

 quoted concerning Western cloisters 

 and the Roman impluvium, 51-52. 



Virgil, 17, 152 n., 271. 

 Viridarium, the, in Roman houses, 20. 



Vitruvius, 18, 24, 26. 



" Vitruvius Britannicus," gardens in French 

 style shown in, 212. 



Vredeman de Vries, J., garden court de- 

 signed by, 128; garden designed by, 

 144; " Hortorum Viridariorumque " 

 of, 144. 



W 



Walk, a covered, at Shrublands, 143, 144. 



Walks, mediaeval terrace, 70-71; in 

 Elizabethan gardens, 142-143; in 

 Stuart gardens, 188-189; Le Blond's 

 advice on, 219; French fashions in, 

 225-226; in modern gardens, 283. 



Wall at The Orchards, 278. 



Walls for enclosing gardens, 88, no, 140, 

 186-188. 



Wai pole, Horace, 197, 256. 



Wanstead, royal gardens at, 106. 



Wardens, a kind of pear, 151 n. 



Water- works, classic Italian, 38; in med- 

 iaeval gardens, 93-94; in Tudor Gar- 

 dens, 119; fanciful devices in, in 

 Elizabethan gardens, 155-156; in gar- 

 den? of Stuart period, 193-194 ; at Ver- 

 sailles, 206-207; at Bramham, 210; at 

 Villa d'Este, 237; in modern Italian 

 villa gardens, 238-239. See Fountains. 



Weber, " The Seven Sages " of, 77-78. 



Well, a Gothic, 54; in the Certosa, Flor- 

 ence, 55. 



Wells, monastic, 54-55. 



Westminster, royal gardens at, 79, 106. 



Whitehall, royal gardens at, 106, 162; 

 pavilion in old gardens at, 146; the 

 mount at, 146-147 ; water-works con- 

 trivance at, 155-156. 



Wilderness, the, in Queen Elizabeth's 

 time,i58-i59; at Wimbledon, 175-176. 



William of Malmesbury, description of 

 Thorney Abbey by, 50-51. 



William the Conqueror, abbeys founded 

 by, in England, 49, 57-58. 



W T ilton, Queen Elizabeth at, 1 63 ; descrip- 

 tion of old Italian gardens at, 240-243; 



present grounds at, 243-245; the 

 grotto at, 254. 



Wimbledon, gardens, 173; orangery, 192. 



Windsor, banqueting house at, 116; royal 

 gardens at, 162. 



Wirtemberg, Duke of, at Hampton Court, 

 156, 162. 



Wise, Henry, 122; gardens at Melbourne 

 laid out by, 210-211; translations by, 

 of French works, 212. 



Witkendus, an authority on sun-dials, 119. 



Wollaton, grounds at, 212. 



Wolsey, Cardinal, gardens of, 105. 



Woodstock, Queen Eleanor's pleasaunce 

 at, 82; Rosamond's bower at, 94. 



Worcester, Bishop of, quoted, 63. 



Worlidge, John, 171; on fountains, 126- 

 127; quoted concerning seventeenth- 

 century gardens, 178-179; " Systema 

 Horticulturae, or Art of Gardening " of, 

 182; on form of gardens, 183-186; 

 plan by, 185; method of making walks 

 recommended by, 189; on garden 

 seats, 190. 



Wotton, Sir Henry, quoted on relation 

 between garden and terrace, 142. 



Wren, Sir Christopher, summer-houses 

 designed by, 190. 



Wreshill Castle, the orchard at, 121. 



Wrest Park, gardens at, 21 1. 



Wright, Thomas, " History of Domestic 

 Manners " of, cited, 298. 



Xenophon, quoted concerning the Para- 

 dise of Sardis, 12. 



Xystus, difference between Greek and 

 Roman meaning of, 18; good example 

 of, in Pompeiian house of the Vettii, 

 25 ; use of ornamental designs for, 40. 



Yew, lightly esteemed in ancient Italy, 

 41; hedges of, 88, 124, 125; coronet 

 of clipped, 116; buttress of clipped, 

 at Arley, 154; archway of, at Brocken- 

 hurst, 287; for elaborate topiary work, 

 284-285. 



York Place, royal gardens at, 106. 



Young, Arthur, description of Ermenon- 

 ville by, 272-273. 



