INDEX 



207 



Regency Bill, 53, 62 

 Regency, the Prince's, 79 

 Repton, Humphrey, 93 

 Richmond, 3, 5, 113, 140 

 Richmond Gardens, 94, 110 

 Richmond Lodge, 8, 10, 28, 32, 



97, 110 



Richmond Palace, 3 

 Richmond Park, 7, 30 

 Richmond, proposal of new 



palace at, 28 

 Rio de Janeiro, Botanic Garden, 



near, 164 



Riots, " No Popery," 34 

 Robinson, " Perdita," 41 

 Rock Garden, the, 168 

 Rogers, John, Reminiscences, 



34, 101 



Rose, George, Diary of, 74 

 Roses, 196 



St. James's Drawing-rooms, 50 

 St. James's Palace, 27 

 Saxe-Gotha, Princess Augusta 



of, 13 



Scholarship, George IV.'s, 37 

 Schwellenberg, Mrs., 49, 68 

 Scotsmen as gardeners, 100, 105 

 Senna, 192 



Seychelles, coco-nut of, 166 

 Sharp, Granville, 122 

 Sheen, 2 



Sheen Common, 94 

 Sheen, the Monastery of, 83 

 Snowdrops, 196 

 Somerset, Protector, 84 

 South African plants, 168 

 Spectator, the, quoted, 90 

 Spencer, Lady Elizabeth, 27 

 STORY OF THK GARDENS, THE, 82 

 Strand-on-the-Green, 113, 126 

 Strawberry Hill, 90, 91 

 Succulent House, 169 

 Sudbrook Park, 114 

 Suffolk House, 4 

 Sun, Temple of the, 169 

 Sunday opening, 110 



Sussex, Duke of, 45 

 Swift, quoted, 114 

 Switzer, Stephen, 87, 91 

 Sydney, Botanic Gardens at, 164 

 Syon House, 4, 84 

 Syon Vista, the, 197 



Tamerlane's garden, 100 

 Teck, Duke of, 155 

 Temple, Sir William, 87 

 Temple of .Solus, 169 

 Temple of the Sun, 169 

 Temple Grove, 87 

 Thackeray, quoted, 34 

 Theobald's Park, Enfield, 5 

 Thiselton-Dyer, Sir W. T., 109 

 Thomson, James, 140 

 " Thresher-poet," the, 116 

 Thresher's Labour. The, quoted 



117 



Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, 62 

 Timber Museum, No. HI., 190 

 Tooke, John Home, 132 

 Topiarian art, the, 89 

 Trimmer, Mrs., 129 

 Tropical Lily House, 166 

 Tropics, plagues of the, 176 

 Tulips, 196 



Turner, Dr. William, 83 

 Tutors of George III., 17 

 Twickenham, 21 

 " Two Kings of Brentford," the, 



132 



Upas tree, 195 



Victoria Gate, 112 

 Victoria, Princess, 81 

 Victoria, Queen, 112, 149 

 Victoria Regia, the, 162, 167 

 VISITING THE GARDENS, 157 



Wales, Dowager Princess of, 20, 



95 

 Wales, Prince Frederick of, 11, 



88 

 Wallace, Dr. A. R., quoted, 174 



