American garden, 50. Approach, 19. Direction of, 21.
Site of entrance of, 23. Line through the Park, 25, Gates on, 28. Termination of, 28.
Roadway of, 29. Decoration of, 30. Villa, 204. Approach, the Fine, 33. Araucaria, 271.
Arboretum, 228. General Idea of,
230. Scientific treatment of, 231. Principles of arrangement, 233. Synopsis of orders and genera, 234. Conspectus, 244. Application of principles, 247. Transference of system to the ground, 248. Decorative treat- ment, 251. Soils and surfaces, 253. Arboretum in the plea- sure-grounds, 254; in the woods,
Artificial style, 81.
Ash, 87. Weeping ash, 96.
Cupressus, species of, 263. Cypress, upright, 95, 263. Chi- nese weeping, 97. Dotting system, 76. Deodar, 90.
Elm, English, and Scotch or Wych, 88.
Educational Institutions, gardens of, 164.
Evergreens, planting and trans- planting of, 121.
Fences, 128. Boundary, 129. In- ternal, 129. Pleasure-ground, 131. Malleable iron, 131. Sunk fence, 132. Walls and hedges,
Firs in the Pinetum, 264. Forms of, 91, 264. Fitzroya, 263.
Flower-garden, 44. Site of, 45. Ground-colour of, 45. Parterres in, 47. Mixed flower-garden, 51. Artistical decoration, 52. Shelter of, 54.
Forms of single trees, 84. Broad round-headed, 87. Conical, 90. Upright or oblongated, 94. Pen- dulous, 95. In the Pinetum, 261.
Forms of trees in combination, 103. Round-headed, 103. Conical, 104. Intermingling of, 106. Forcing garden, 152. Forcing houses, 153. Fruit garden, 152.
Gates, style of, 24. On the prin- cipal approach, 28. Glyptostrobus, 264. Greenhouses, 154, 200.
Ground, natural character, 63. Acquired character, 64.
Group, 69 Grouping of plantations, 74. Head of lake, 137. Holly, 91.
Horticultural Gardens, 179. Lay-
ing-out of, 182. Museum, 186. House, 1. Site of, 2. Shelter of, 6. Position in the park, 7. Style of, 10, 198. Arrangement of interior, 11. Supply of water for, 5. Drainage, 4. Ilex, 89. Islands, 136.
Jet fountains, 141. Juniperus, 261.
Kitchen garden, relations of, 144, Site, 145. Drainage, 147. Soil, 148. Form, 149. Walls, 151. Villa, 206.
Lake, artificial, 134.
Larch, 94. In Pinetum, 267. Landscape gardening compared with landscape painting, 216. Its processes partially tentative,
Landscape, composition of, in the pleasure-grounds, 36. Laurels, 42, 44.
Lawns, formation of, 58. Libocedrus, 262.
Lime-tree, 88. Lodge, 24.
Macrocachrys, 272. Mass of wood, 70. Oak, 88. Evergreen, 89. Offices attached to the house, 17. Ornamental characters of trees, 84. Of single trees, 86. Of trees in combination, 103. In the Pine- tum, 261.
Park, 60. Unity of, 61. Natural
Roads, 29, 194. Through planta-
tions, 113. Secondary roads, 30. Rockworks, 53.
Rosary, 49.
Salisburia, 273. Saxe-Gothea, 272.
Seclusion, 66, 203.
Sequoia, 272.
Shelter of house, 6.
Site of the house, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9. Stable court, 17. Stairs, 43. Statues, 53.
Street gardens, 166. Sycamore, or Maple, 87. Synopsis of Natural Orders and genera for Arboretum, 234. Table of temperatures of soil, 124. Taxodium, 264. Taxus, 273.
Terraces, 38. Walls of, 40. Grass slopes of, 41. Banks and shrubs on, 42. Stairs of, 43. Upper surfaces of, 43.
Thinning of trees, 117.
210. The leading varieties of villa scenery, 210. The pleasure- ground villa, 211. The park villa, 213.
Walks, 43, 46, 56. Formation, 57. Water, supply of, for the house, 5. Water, ornamental, 134. Artificial lake, 134. Islands in, 136. Head of lake, 137. Artificial
rivers, 140. Jet fountains, 141. Water as an ornament in public parks, 162. Villa, 210. Willow, weeping, 96. Wire fences, 28, 131, 214. Yew, 89. Irish yew, 95. Pinetum, 273.
Page 133, instead of hedges afford a cheap and ready sort of fence, read hedges form a cheap sort of fence.
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