VI 
PREFACE 
Parks, both Royal and Municipal, for their courtesy in 
affording me information, and to many friends who 
have facilitated my search in historical and private 
gardens. I am also extremely grateful to my friend, 
Miss Margaret MacArthur, who has assisted me in the 
tedious task of correcting proofs. The lists of trees 
and shrubs, and of plants in the beds in Hyde Park, were 
kindly drawn up for me by the Park Superintendent, 
the late Mr. Jordan, with the consent of H.M. Office 
of Works. 
ALICIA M. CECIL. 
io Eaton Place, 
August 1907 . 
