LIST OF PLATES 



WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TWO DOUBLE PAGE SUBJECTS, INDICATED BY (*), 

 THE PLATES ARE REPRODUCED IN COLLOTYPE. 



Portrait of Andre Le Notre ........ Frontispiece 



From a Mezzotint Engraving by J. Smith, after a Painting by Carl Marat. 

 Villa Castello, near Florence "i 

 The Water Garden, Villa Marlia) 

 The Parterre, Villa Caprarola .... 



The Water Parterre, Villa Lante .... 



The Parterre, Vaux-le-Vicomte ..... 



A Lead Fountain at the Grand Trianon, Versailles 

 Le Basson de Trianon, Versailles .... 



♦Plan of Fontainebleau in the Eighteenth Century 



The Allee d'Eau at St. Cloud 



♦The Palace of " Het Loo " . . ' . 



The Garden at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire 



The " Twelve Apostles " Yew Hedge, Cleeve Prior Manor House, 



Worcestershire .......•• „ „ 205 



An old Garden-House, Sutton Place, Surrey . . . . „ „ 226 



Ironwork Screens at Belton House, Lincolnshire : the Main Gates and 



facing page 34 



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50 



130 



134 

 between pp. 144 and 145 



facing page 150 



between pp. 190 and 191 



facing page 203 



the Wilderness Gate . 

 The Rocher at Bagatelle . 



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