Cambridge, Duke George of, 154
Cambridge, Princess Mary of, 155
Capel, Lord, 11, 87
Carleton House, 77
Carob pods, 193
Caroline, Queen, 9, 10, 94, 116
Cassava, 194
Castor-oil plant, the, 193
Cedars of Lebanon, 197
Chambers, Sir William, 96
Character of George III., 22
Charles I., 7
Charlotte, Princess, 80, 81
Charlotte, Queen, 24, 47, 52 68, 80
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 cerifera_, 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 Gardening_, 96
_Diversions of Purley_, 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, 50
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, 95, 120
George III., accession of, 24
George III.’s character, 22
George III.’s escape from assassination, 36
George III.’s illness, 51
George III. meets Miss Burney, 47
George III.’s tutors, 17
George IV., 77, 106
George IV., Prince of Wales, 37, 40, 53, 55
George IV.’s intrigue with “Perdita” Robinson, 41
Giant gum trees at Melbourne, 164
Gordon, General, 166
Great Palm House, 165
Green, the gardener, 99
Greenhouse, the, 170
Greville, Charles, quoted, 150
Grey, Lady Jane, 4
Gwyn, Mrs., the “Jessamy Bride,” 145
Ha-ha fence, 93
Ham House, 87, 114
Hampton Court, 3, 8, 10
Hanover, Ernest, King of, 107
Hanover, George of, 152
Haverfield, John, 99
Hawkins, the brothers, 123
Helps, Sir Arthur, 147
Hemp plants, 192
Henry, Prince, 6
Herbaceous ground, 169, 198
Herbarium library, 152
_Heroic Epistle_, Mason’s, 95
Hervey, Lord, quoted, 12, 14
Highwaymen, 121
Hill, Sir John, 96
Hofland, Barbara, 146
Hollow Walk, the, 123
“Honour, Maids of,” 8
Hooker, Sir J. D., 109, 181
Hooker, Sir W. J., 108, 109
Horne Tooke, John, 132
Horse-chestnut, old, 196
Horticultural Society’s Garden, 107
Huntingdon, William, S.S., 138
Hurlbut, W. H., quoted, 171
“Improvers,” 88
India-rubber plants, 195
Islay, Lord, 97
Italian Gardens, 89
Jacobi, Mdlle., 69, 72
James I., 5
Jefferies, Richard, quoted, 198
Jones, Henry, 98
Jones, Inigo, 88
Juniper Hill, 71
“Junius,” 134
Kava root, 192
Kent, Duke of, 45, 81
Kent, William, 88
Kew Bridge, 118
Kew Castle, 77
Kew Church, 115
Kew Churchyard, 129
Kew Cottage, 147
Kew Green, 75, 157
Kew House, 10, 29, 32, 46, 51, 54, 64, 76
KEW IN FAVOUR, 31
“Kew in lilac-time,” 158
Kew Observatory, 9, 88, 97, 111
Kew, origin of name, 1
Kew Palace, 10, 78, 80, 112, 197
Kew Priory, 143
Kew Volunteers, 149
Kingston, 2
Kirby, Joshua, 129
Kit-Cat Club, 114
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 114
Kneller Hall, 114
Knight, Charles, 79
Knight, Miss Cornelia, 73
_Lacon_, quoted, 144
Lake, the, 197
Langley, Batty, 91
Lauderdale, Duke of, at Ham House, 87
Lebanon, cedars of, 197
Lely, Sir Peter, 113
Lennox, Lady Sarah, 26
Le Nôtre, 89
Levens Hall, 89
Linnean classification, the, 190
Linnés, the, 102
Lion Gate, the, 197
Liquorice root, 192
Little, John, story of, 141
“Love Lane,” 33
Macaulay, quoted, 47
Macnab, James, 103
Macnab, William, 102
Macnab, William Ramsay, 103
“Maids of Honour,” 8
Mammoth sequoia, 181
Marvell, A., quoted, 93
Mary of Cambridge, Princess, 155
Mason’s _Heroic Epistle_, 95
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Dowager Grand-Duchess of, 155
Melbourne, giant gum-trees at, 164
“Merlin’s Cave,” 94
Meyer, Jeremiah, 126
Molyneux, Samuel, 11, 87
Monastery of Sheen, the, 83
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, 123
Moor Park, Hertfordshire, 85
Murray, Miss Amelia, quoted, 124
Museums and Economic Houses, 185
New Zealand Vegetation, 183
Niepce, J. N. de, 146
“No Popery” riots, 34
North Gallery, 199
North, Miss Marianne, 161, 163, 199
Nôtre, Le, 89
Noyes, Mr. A., quoted, 158
Observatory, the, 9, 88, 97, 111
Old Brentford, 132
Old Deer Park, 36, 111, 141
Opium, 192
“Orangery,” the, 190
Orotava, dragon-tree at, 180
Pagoda, the, 1, 96, 197
Palace at Richmond, proposed new, 28
Palm House, 108
Papendiek, Mrs., Memoirs of, 34, 40, 43, 56, 72, 99, 120, 121, 123, 125
Papyrus reeds, 167
Pavilion, the Brighton, 77
Peradenia, Gardens of, 164
Petersham, 114
Phillips’s _Morning’s walk from London to Kew_, 142
Physic Garden, Chelsea, 101
Pond, the, 197
Pope, quoted, 15, 89
Portraits of botanists and explorers, 195
Potato, the, 185
Prain, Colonel, 109
Prince Albert, 110
Prince Frederick of Wales, 11, 15, 88
Prince George of Hanover, 152
Prince Henry, 6
Princess Amelia, 30, 64, 79
Princess Charlotte, 80, 81
“Princess Elizabeth’s House,” 46
Princess Marie’s wedding, 155
Princess Victoria, 81
Pringle, Sir John, 123
Proctor, Richard, 147
Queen Caroline, 9, 10, 116
Queen Charlotte, 27, 68, 80
Queen Elizabeth, 5
Queen Victoria, 112, 149
“Queen’s Cottage,” the, 29, 196
“Queen’s Lodge” at Windsor, 32
Quinine, 193
_Rafflesia_, 162
_Recollections of a Happy Life_, 200
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 THE 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 Æolus, 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. III., 190
Tooke, John Horne, 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
Walpole, Horace, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 28, 45, 63
Wedding of Princess Marie, 155
Wells, Mr. J. W., quoted, 189
West, Sir Algernon, quoted, 109
Weymouth, 65, 76
White House, the, 46
White Lodge, 155
Whitton Place, 97
Wild hyacinths, 196
Wilkes, John, 26, 131
Wilkes’s head, 76
“Wilkes and Liberty,” 89, 133
Wilkinson, Mr., _Reminiscences_, 154
William of Cumberland, 12, 18
William III., 8, 89
William IV., 87
Willis, Rev. Dr., 56, 68
Willises, the, 75
Windsor Castle, 32, 50, 78
Wolsey, 3
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 118
York, Frederick, Duke of, 37, 42, 64
Zoffany, John, 127
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