INDEX 



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Mary, Queen, Consort of William III., 4, 9, 



^6 ei seq. 



Mary Queen of Scots, 3, 51, 92 et seq. 

 Mary, Tudor Queen, 51, 73 

 Melville, ambassador, 5 1 

 Mercury, statue of, 45, 159 

 Mexico, 5 



Milne, master-mason, 95, 97 

 Mulberry gardens, 74 



Nature, school of landscape gardeners, 



10, 85, 158 

 Narcissi, choice varieties of, 28 

 Necham, 6 



Newcastle, Thomas Pelham, Duke of, 106, 

 108 



Norman Tower garden, Windsor Castle, 13 

 etseq., 153, 158, 160, 163, 169, 170, 171 

 Nottingham, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 82 

 Nottingham House, 82 et seq. 

 Nutt, Mr. A. Y., architect, 15 

 Nymphaeas, 27, 43, 133 



Oatlands Park, 107 



Old English flowers, 8, 30, 115 



Orchid houses, 144 



Osborne, 4, 61 et seq.., 160, 163, 169 



Osborne Cottage, 70 et seq., 153 



Pallas Athene, statue of, 39, 44 



Pall Mall, 75 



Palmerston, Lord, 127 



Parkinson, author, 8 



Paths, 18, 157 seq. 



Paths, grass, 65, 160 



Pelargoniums, good varieties of, 99 



Pelham, Earl of Clare, afterwards Duke of 



Newcastle, 106 

 Penstemons, 116 

 Pepys, Samuel, 33, 73, 74, 78 

 Pergolas, 17, 35, 48, 125, 138, 139, 153, 174, 



175 

 Persia, 5 

 Peru, 5 



Peter Pan, statue of, 90 

 Piers Plowman, 7 

 Pisarro, 5 



Pliny, the younger, 6 

 Plunkenet, Dr., botanist, 57 

 " Poet's Corner," Norman Tower garden, 19 

 Pond gardens, 47, 50, 88, 89, 168, 174 

 Pope, the poet, 10 

 Portugal, King of, 138 

 Potteries, Guild of Art, at Compton, Surrey 

 43 



Princess Charlotte's garden, 105, 112, 168 



Probyn, General Sir Dighton M., 14 

 Prussia, Prince Leopold of, 40 



Reading Abbey, 18 

 Red borders, flowers for, 130 

 Repton, garden designer, 10, 154 

 Rizzio, 93 



Rock gardens, 11, 22, 132, 170 

 Rock gardens, plants for, 22 et seq., 132, 139 

 Rocque, 87, 89 

 Romans, the ancient, 6 

 Romans, mediaeval, 161 

 Rose, royal gardener, 55 

 Rose arches, 16, 37, 47, 48, 125, 140, 150, 

 152 



Rose screens, 115, 140, 141 



Roses, 16, 17, 18, 28, 44, 63, 65, 68, 99, 112, 



115, 125, 129, 130, 139, 140, 141 

 Roses trained on ropes, 112 



St. James's Palace, 73, 78, 80 



St. James's Park, 4, g, 55, 73 



St, John, Knights of, 50 



St. Valerie, Walter de, 50 



Salisbury Crags, 95, 96, 103 



Sandringham, 4, 120 et seq., 153, 155, 158, 



159, 164, 170, 171, 175 

 Scott, Sir Walter, 95 

 Shaw, Huntingdon, 57 

 Shrubs, choice varieties of, 29, 69, 99, 135, 



136 



Spain, T.M. the King and Queen of, 70, 

 138 



Spenser, the poet, 2, 7, 60 

 Spiral garden (Bagshot Park), 37 

 Spring garden, 74, 75 

 Statues in gardens, 174 

 Sundials, 15, 37, 95, 127, 141, 174 

 Sunk fences, 85, 154 



Sweden, T.R.H. the Crown Prince and 



Princess of, 44 

 Swiss Cottage, Osborne, 63, 68 et seq., 160 

 Switzer, 55, 57 

 Sylva, by John Evelyn, 8 



Tadema, the late Sir L. Alma, R.A., 139 



Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 19 



Terraces, 5, 17, 38, 57, 58, 62, 80, 123, 128, 



129, 161 et seq. 

 Terraces, grass or turf, 164 

 Thackeray, 3, 84 

 Theocritus, 90 

 Theophrastus, 6 

 Thomson, the poet, 108 

 Tijou, Jean, 57 

 Topiary work, 141 



