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Chatterton, quoted, 98 

 Chelsea, Physic Garden of, 101 

 Chestnuts, 194 

 Chrysanthemums, 196 

 Church House, 123 

 City State Barge, 143 

 Clarence, Duke of, 45, 70, 81 

 Cobbett, William, 136 

 Coca leaves, 192 

 Coco-nut of Seychelles, 166 

 Coco-nut trees, uses of, 188 

 Colton, Charles Caleb, 143 

 Confucius, House of, 96 

 Cook's Voyages, 105 

 Copernicia ceriferu, a tree-of-all- 



work, 189 



Cotton window, the, 191 

 Cowley, quoted, 84 

 Crocuses, 196 

 Cuba jungles, 171 

 Cumberland, Ernest, Duke of, 



45, 81, 116, 150, 151 

 Cumberland, William of, 12, 18 



Daffodils, 196 



" Dairy House," the, 11 



D'Arblay, General, 71 



Darwin, Erasmus, quoted, 98 



Darwins, the, 102 



Dates, 194 



Deans, Jeanie, 9 



De Candolles, the, 102 



De Jussieus, the, 102 



Diary, George Rose's, 74 



Dictionary of National Biography, 

 quoted, 75 



Digby, Colonel, 67 



Dissertation on Oriental Garden- 

 ing, 96 



Diversion* of Parley, the, 134 



Doddington, Bubb, 20 



Dowager Princess of Wales, 20, 

 95 



Dragon-tree at Orotava, 180 



"Drake, Peter," 95 



Drawing-rooms at St. James's, 60 



Duck, Misses, 116 



Duck, Stephen, 94, 116, 117 

 Dutch House, the, 11, 29, 74 



Edinburgh Botanical Garden, 



103 



Edward III., 2 

 Elizabeth, Queen, 5 

 "Elizabeth's house, Princess," 



46 



Engleharts, the, 126 

 Ernest, King of Hanover, 107 



150, 151 



Ernst, the page, 126 

 Eucalyptus, 181 

 Evelyn, John, 86 

 Explorers, portraits of botanists 



and, 195 



" Farmer George," 31 

 Finch, Lady Charlotte, 46 

 Fischer, musician, 40, 125 

 Fitzherbert, Mrs., 45 

 Fortnum, 125 

 Frederick, Duke of York, .37, 



43,46 

 Frederick, Prince of Wales, 11, 



15,88 



Gainsborough, Thomas, 129 



Gardening, art of, 88 



Gardens, celebrated, 87, 88 



GARDENS, THE STORY OF THE, 82 



Garrick, quoted, 96 



George, Duke of Cambridge, 

 154 



" George, Farmer," 31 



George I., 8 



George II., 8, 10, 24 



George III., 13, 74, 76, 78, 1)5, 

 120 



George III., accession of, 24 



George Ill.'s character, 22 



George III.'s escape from assas- 

 sination, 36 



George III.'s illness, 51 



George III. meets Miss Burney, 

 47 



