INDEX 



Additions to gardens, 254 

 Alpine (rock) gardens, 185-193 

 Alterations to gardens, 253 

 American garden, The, 197 

 Andr6, fedouard, quoted, 25 ; 



valley planted by, 28 

 Anglo-Chinese garden, 10 

 Annuals, Hardy, 206 

 Approaches to the house, 157- 



165 

 Architects and garden designers, 



57, 68 



Autumn colours in trees, 226 

 Avenues, Entrance, 158-160 ; 



trees for, 226 ; gradients 



suitable for avenues, 227 ; 



radiating, 227 ; of small 



flowering trees, 228 

 Azaleas, 212 



Bacon's Essay on Gardens, 6 

 Banqueting houses, 6 

 Basins, Water, 172, 174, 175, 



176 

 Beaconsfield, Plan of garden at, 



20 



Bedding-out, 63, 206 

 Beds, Preparation of, 259 

 Beech trees for avenue, 227 

 Beech, The copper, 224 

 Belton House, 22 

 Belvoir Castle gardens, 206 

 Blunham House, Bedfordshire, 



175 



Bog garden, 174 

 Boning rods, use of, 89 

 Bosham fish ponds, 3 

 Boundaries, Measuring, 72 ; 



planting, 234-236, 246 

 Box edgings, 129 

 Box hedge, Shaping, 231 

 Bridgeman, Charles, 8 

 Bridges in Japanese gardens, 



46, 147 ; " rustic," 146 

 Brown, Lancelot (" Capabi- 

 lity "), 10, 38 

 Brown garden, 198 

 Brussels Exhibition, 1910, 36 

 Builders and gardens, 257 

 Byfleet, West Hall, 19 



Carney's Seat, 6 



Carpet-bedding, 63, 206 



Carriage drives, 127, 158 ; un- 

 necessary, 163 ; sweeps, 160 ; 

 centres, 162 



Cascade, 171 



Centres for carriage sweeps, 162 



Chambers, Sir Wm., 10 



Cherry tree garden, Japanese, 



44 

 Chestnut, Horse, for avenues, 



227 



Chichester, Small garden in, 



249 



Chinese style, 10 

 Clay for ponds, 172 

 Climate, 251 



