• A
• Acreage of Parks, 4, 121
• Aiglio, 241
• Albert Memorial, 50
• Alma-Tadema, Sir Laurence, 334
• Alpine plants, 330
• Anne Boleyn, 110
• —— of Cleves, 110
• —— Queen, 41
• Annual flowers, 331
• Apothecaries’ Garden, Chelsea, 317
• Archbishop’s Park, 307
• Archery, 96, 97
• Argyll Lodge, 344
• Artillery Garden, 292
• —— Ground, 10, 291
• Austin Friars, 14
• Avery Hill, 183
• Avondale Park, 130
• B
• Bacon and Gray’s Inn, 283
• Balloon ascents, 292
• Bank of England, 258
• Banqueting-houses, 26, 85, 86, 112
• Barnard’s Inn, 263
• Battersea enamel, 155
• Battersea Park, 120, 155–161
• —— bicycling in, 161
• —— chrysanthemums in, 160
• —— duel in, 157
• —— early history of, 156
• —— Red House in, 156
• —— sub-tropical garden in, 158
• Bayard’s Castle, 8
• Bergne, Lady, garden in Kensington, 335
• Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam), 237
• Bethnal Green Gardens, 134
• Birdcage Walk, 61
• Birds, wild, in Greenwich Park, 117
• —— in Victoria Park, 139
• —— on Hampstead Heath, 198
• Blackfriars, 9
• Blackheath, 107, 202
• Bostall Wood, 199
• Botanical Garden, Regent’s Park, 17, 98
• —— Society, 98
• Brewers’ Almshouses, 294
• Bridgeman, 40, 42
• Bridgewater House, 350
• Broad Walk, Regent’s Park, 101
• Brockwell Park, 170–174
• —— old English garden in, 170–172
• —— purchase of, 172
• —— rooks in, 174
• Brook Green, 213
• Broome House, 345
• Brown, Sir Richard, 293, 325
• Buckingham House, 76, 351
• —— Palace, 59, 350–355
• Bunhill Fields, 11, 248–251
• Bunyan, John, tomb, 249
• Burial-grounds, 3, 242–260
• —— Friends’, 249
• —— in the City, 254–259
• —— Marylebone, 245
• —— St. John’s Wood, 245
• —— St. Pancras, 243
• —— Stepney, 245
• Burton’s Court, 312
• Burton, Decimus, 93, 100
• C
• Cadogan Place, 239
• Cake-house in Hyde Park, 28, 32
• Camberwell Park, 126, 166
• —— Green, 168, 215
• Cam House, 343
• Campden Hill, gardens on, 343
• Carlton House, 77
• Caroline, Queen, 38, 40, 42, 45, 74, 75
• Catalpa, 153, 286
• Cedars, 17, 321
• Chamberlain, Mr., house at Highbury, 191
• Charles I., 60
• Charles II., 61, 63, 67, 147
• Charlton, 357
• Charterhouse, 289–291
• Chelsea, 311
• —— Ranelagh Gardens, 315
• —— Waterworks, 38, 76
• Chelsea Hospital, 311–317
• —— burial-ground, 314
• —— statue in, 313
• Chelsea Physic Garden, 16, 17, 317
• —— cedars, 321
• —— curators of, 320
• —— new management of, 319
• —— trees in, 323
• —— visit of Linnæus, 324
• Chrysanthemums, 17, 159
• City Corporation Parks, 4
• Clapham Common, 205–207
• Clement’s Inn, 262
• Clifford’s Inn, 263
• Climate, changes of, 69, 98, 128
• Clissold Park, 141–144
• Commons, 185–216
• —— Clapham, 205
• —— Deptford, 203
• —— Hackney, 188
• —— Old Oak, 199
• —— Peckham Rye, 204
• —— Plumstead, 201
• —— Streatham, 211
• —— Tooting, 207
• —— Wandsworth, 212
• Commons’ Preservation Society, 185
• Commonwealth, sale of Royal Parks in time of, 28, 87
• Cost of maintenance of Parks, 5
• County in Town Exhibition, 18
• Cox’s Walk, 177
• Cromwell, Oliver, 29, 233
• Cromwell, Thomas, seizure of gardens by, 12
• D
• Dahlia, 341
• Deer, 36, 67, 74, 88
• Dell in Hyde Park, 52
• Deptford Park, 178, 203
• Devonshire House, 335
• Dolphin Fountain, Hyde Park, 39
• Downing Street, 72
• Drapers’ Company Garden, 12, 292
• Duck Island, 62, 72, 73
• Duels, 33, 86, 157, 341
• Duke Humphrey’s Walk, 77
• Duke of York’s School, Chelsea, 311
• Dulwich College, 175
• Dulwich Park, 174–177
• —— rock garden in, 176
• E
• Eel Brook Common, 213
• Eltham Park, 182
• Ely Place, 9, 14
• Embankment Gardens, 132
• Enfield, 323
• Evelyn, John, 29, 67, 79, 229, 232, 293, 309, 312, 325–326
• Exhibition of 1851, 48
• F
• Fairchild, Thomas, 18, 128, 223
• Fawcett, Henry, 163
• Fetter Lane, 15
• Fickett’s Field, 236
• Finsbury Circus, 237
• —— Park, 120, 125, 139–141
• —— Square, 10, 237
• Fire of London, 12, 15
• Flowers at the Grey-coat School, 298.
• —— in Greenwich Park, 117
• —— in Holborn, 9
• —— in Hyde Park, 46–48
• —— in Municipal Parks, 124
• —— in the Temple Gardens, 272
• —— of Shakespeare, 151, 154, 171
• —— suited to London, 330–335
• Fogs, 69, 128
• Foley House, 89
• Fordyce, Mr., 89, 90
• Foundling Hospital, 296
• French Gardeners, 61
• Fuchsia, 17
• Fulham Palace, 308, 311
• —— gardens at, 345
• G
• Gardeners, 14
• —— Company, 14
• Gardens, Castle, 8
• —— City, 14–16
• —— monastic, 7–8
• Gay, lines on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 235, 282
• Gerard, John, 16, 17, 19
• Gibson, Mr., 137–158, 228
• Godfrey, Sir Edmondsbury, 105
• Goose Green, 213
• Gordon riots, 194–233
• Gospel Oak, 197
• Grant, Baron, 228
• Gray’s Inn, 283–288
• Green Park, 56–73
• —— fireworks in, 75
• —— railings round, 76
• —— Ranger’s lodge in, 76
• Green Walk, St. James’s Park, 77
• Greens, 213
• Greenwich Fair, 115
• Greenwich Park, 106–118
• —— birds in, 117
• —— burials in, 107
• —— flowers in, 117
• —— Queen’s House, 113
• —— royal pageants in, 109–113
• —— wild flowers in, 116
• Grey-coat School, Westminster, 297
• Grosley, Mr., 67, 281
• Grosvenor House, 337
• Gunning, The Misses, 69
• H
• Hackney, 16, 17
• —— Commons, 188
• —— Downs, 186, 189
• —— Marsh, 189
• Hainault, Forest of, 122
• Hamilton Place, 35
• Hampstead Heath, 192–198
• —— Jack Straw’s Castle, 195
• —— Spaniards, 194
• —— Wells, 192
• —— wild flowers, 197
• Hatton, Sir Christopher, 14
• Heath, Bostall, 199
• —— Hampstead, 192
• Henry VIII. and Hyde Park, 25
• —— at Greenwich, 109
• Henry, Prince of Wales, 357–359
• Highbury Fields, 190
• Highgate, 10
• Hilly Fields, 203
• Holborn, 8, 16
• Holland House, 337–343
• Honourable Artillery Company, 97, 292
• Horniman Gardens, 177
• Hornsey Wood, 140
• Horse Guards’ Parade, 59, 72
• Horticultural Society, 17
• Hoxton, 18
• Hunting, 25, 85–86, 88
• Hyde, Manor of, 24
• Hyde Park, 23–55
• —— area of flower beds, 48
• —— boundaries, 24
• —— cake-house in, 28, 32
• —— deer in, 35
• —— dell, 52
• —— duels in, 33
• —— flowers in, 46
• —— forts erected in, 27
• —— fountains in, 39, 44, 54
• —— frame-ground in, 47
• —— gates, 54
• —— hunting in, 25
• —— keepers of, 35
• —— Parliamentary army in, 28
• —— Plague in, 32
• —— railings round, 35, 46
• —— reviews in, 35
• —— Ring in, 28–30
• —— roads in, 36
• —— sale of, 28
• —— trees in, 51
• —— water in, 37, 42
• I
• Ice accident, 101
• Ice-house in Green Park, 74
• Inns of Court, 261–288
• Ironmongers’ Almshouses, 296
• Island Garden, Poplar, 133
• Isle of Dogs, 133
• Islip Abbot, 25
• J
• Jack Straw’s Castle, 194
• Jacobite Walk, 73
• James I., 59
• James II., 67
• Jefferies, Richard, 125, 210
• Johnson, Thomas, 17, 19
• K
• Kennington Common, 164
• Kennington Park, 164–166
• —— fountain in, 166
• —— historical incidents, 165
• Kensington Gardens, 41–50
• —— trees in, 51
• Kensington Palace, 36–40
• Kent, landscape gardener, 40
• Kyrle Society, 121
• L
• Ladywell Recreation Ground, 203
• Lamb, Charles, 15, 279, 285
• Lambeth, 305
• Lammas Lands, 119, 186, 189
• Latimer, Bishop, 306, 308
• Laud, Archbishop, 305–306
• Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, 147
• Le Nôtre, 61, 113
• Lincoln, Earl of, 8
• Lincoln’s Inn, 279–282
• Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 234, 282
• L’Obel, 16
• Loddige, 17
• London and Wise, 40
• London County Council, equipment of, 123
• —— expenditure on parks, 6
• —— inappropriate planting by, 189, 204
• —— parks owned by, 4, 121
• London Fields, 188
• —— Hospital Garden, 295
• Loudon, 54, 90, 99, 223
• M
• Mall, The, 61, 66, 68, 70, 73, 77
• Manor Park or Manor House Gardens, 182
• Marble Arch, 54
• —— Hill, 121
• Marvel, Andrew, 149
• Mary, Queen, 40
• Marylebone Fields, 89, 92
• —— origin of, 83
• Marylebone Park, 84–89
• —— called Regent’s Park, 91
• —— lease to the Duke of Portland, 90
• —— Manor-house in, 89
• Maryon Park, 181
• Mayor of Garrett, 212
• Meath Gardens, 248
• —— Earl of, 243
• Metropolitan Commons Act, 186, 188
• —— Gardens Association, 121, 234, 243, 248
• Milton, 60
• Minet, Mr. William, 166
• Mirabeau, letters of, 128, 220
• Monastic gardens, 7, 8
• Montagu House, 222, 232, 335
• Montagu, Mrs., 222, 336
• Moorfields, 10–12
• Moorgate, 11
• Moravian Mission, 15, 311
• More, Sir Thomas, 311
• Mother Shipton, 104
• Municipal Parks, 119
• —— acreage of, 121
• —— criticisms upon, 184, 189, 204
• —— equipment of, 123
• —— flowers in, 124
• —— formation of, 120, 123, 136
• —— green-houses in, 124
• —— laying out of, 126
• —— old English gardens in, 127
• —— situation of, 120
• Myatt’s Fields, Camberwell, 166–168
• —— avenue in, 126, 168
• N
• Naming plants, 54
• Nash, architect, 90–91
• Navy, timber in Marylebone Park used by Cromwell for, 88
• Neate or Neyte, 24, 239
• Nell Gwynn, 67, 147
• Nesfield, 101
• Nevill, Bishop of Chichester, 15
• —— Court, 15
• New River, 142–143
• North Woolwich tea garden, 134
• Nunhead Green, 213
• O
• Observatory, Greenwich, 108
• “Old English Gardens,” 151–154, 171
• Open Spaces, Select Committee on, 187
• Osborne, Dorothy, 60
• P
• Paddington Green, 213
• Pall Mall, 66
• Pardon Churchyard, Charterhouse, 236
• —— St. Paul’s, 250
• Parkinson, John, 16, 298
• Parks, acreage of, 4, 6, 122
• —— classes of, 3
• —— duels in, 33, 86, 157
• —— lighting of, 37, 79
• —— maintenance of, 5, 6
• —— Municipal, 3, 6, 121, 122, 159
• —— Royal, 3, 6, 122, 157
• —— sale of, 28, 87
• Park system, 22
• Parliament Hill, 192, 197
• Parson’s Green, 213
• Paul’s Cross, 252
• Pawlet, Sir William, 14
• Peckham Rye, 204
• Pennethorne, Sir James, 157
• Pepys, 12, 15, 31, 34, 65, 79, 115, 148, 180, 189, 206, 257, 280
• Piccadilly, 76
• Placentia or Plaisance, 108
• Plague, 32, 196, 226, 236, 238, 257
• Plane trees, 223
• Plants suited to London, 330–335
• Plumstead Common, 201
• Portland Place, 89
• Postman’s Park, 255
• Potatoes, 17
• Primrose Hill, 104
• Private gardens, 327–356
• Q
• Quaggy River, 182
• Queen’s House, Greenwich, 113–114
• Queen’s Walk, Green Park, 75
• Quintinye, de la, 61, 77
• R
• Ranelagh Gardens, 315
• Ranger’s Lodge, Green Park, 76
• —— Greenwich Park, 115
• Ravensbourne, 203
• Ravenscourt Park, 152–154
• —— old English garden in, 154
• —— trees in, 153
• Red House, Battersea, 156
• Reform Bill riots, 46
• Regent’s Park, 83–105
• —— architecture and houses, 91
• —— banqueting houses in, 85
• —— canal, 90
• —— deer, 88
• —— duels in, 86
• —— flowers in, 101–102
• —— formerly Marylebone Park, 84, 91
• —— hunting in, 85–86
• —— Manor-house in, 89, 97
• —— railings, 103
• —— sale by Cromwell, 87
• —— Societies in, 96
• —— stone vase in, 101
• —— villas in, 93–94, 347
• Repton, Humphrey, 231–239
• Rhododendrons in Hyde Park, 53
• Ring in Hyde Park, 28–30
• Riots in Hyde Park, 45
• Rock gardens, 176
• Rooks, 174, 288
• Rosamond’s Pond, 58, 73
• Roses, 9, 277, 334
• Rotten Row, 36
• Round Pond, 44
• Royal Avenue, Chelsea, 312
• Ruskin Park, 168–170
• S
• Saint Alphege, London Wall, 258
• —— Bartholomew’s Hospital, 289
• —— Botolph’s, Aldersgate, 255–256
• —— Christopher-le-Stocks, 258
• —— Dunstan’s Lodge, 93
• —— Dunstan’s, Stepney, 245
• —— George’s-in-the-East, 246
• —— Giles, Cripplegate, 258
• —— James’s Palace, 57, 348
• —— James’s Park, 25, 45, 56–82
• —— —— —— animals and birds in, 59, 61, 64,73
• —— —— —— canal in, 65
• —— —— —— cows in, 64
• —— —— —— driving privileges in, 71
• —— —— —— Duck Island, 62, 73
• —— —— —— flowers in, 80
• —— —— —— leper hospital in, 57
• —— —— —— a races in, 71
• —— —— —— Rosamond’sPond, 58, 73
• —— —— —— tilting ring, 59
• —— John at Hackney, 245
• —— —— Knights of, 7–8, 236, 264
• —— John’s Lodge, 74, 237
• —— Katherine Coleman, 256
• —— Katharine’s, Regent’s Park, 94, 437
• —— Leonard’s, Shoreditch, 18
• —— Martin, 259
• —— Mary Staining, 254
• —— Mary, Islington, 245
• —— Olave’s, Hart Street, 254–257
• —— Pancras-in-the-Fields, 243
• —— Paul’s Churchyard, 250–254
• Sand gardens for children, 124, 139, 163
• Sayes Court, Deptford, 325
• Scott, Sir Gilbert, 50
• Seething Lane, 16
• Serpentine, 37–38, 42–45
• Shakespeare, flowers of, 151, 154, 171
• Shepherd’s Bush, 213
• Shrubs suitable for London, 330
• Skating, 45, 79, 101
• —— club, 97
• Sloane, Sir Hans, 16, 318
• Smoke, 69, 128, 129
• Spa Fields, 247
• “Spaniards,” Hampstead, 194
• Spring flowers suitable for London, 334
• Springfield Park, 144
• Spring Gardens, 60
• Squares, 217–241
• —— Bedford, 232
• —— Belgrave, 238
• —— Berkeley, 222
• —— Bloomsbury, 231
• —— Brompton, 240
• —— Brunswick, 296
• —— Cadogan Place, 239
• —— Cavendish, 221
• —— Eaton, 218, 239
• —— Finsbury, 237
• —— Golden, 226
• —— Grosvenor, 219, 221
• —— Hanover, 221
• —— in Belgravia, 238
• —— in Bloomsbury, 230, 297
• —— in the East End, 238
• —— Kensington, 240
• —— Ladbroke, 219
• —— Leicester, 227
• —— Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 234
• —— Manchester, 221
• —— Mecklenburgh, 297
• —— New, 235
• —— Portman, 222, 336
• —— Queen’s, 233
• —— Red Lion, 233
• —— Russell, 321
• —— Saint James’s, 223
• —— Soho, 229
• —— Southampton, 231
• —— statues in, 220, 225, 226, 229, 230, 231
• —— Trinity, 237
• —— Vincent, 238
• Sorbiere, M. de, 62
• South London Parks, 155–184
• Southwark Park, 179
• Stepney, Manor of, 139
• —— Museum, 146
• Stoke Newington or Clissold Park, 141–144
• Streatham Common, 209, 211
• Sub-tropical Garden, Battersea, 158
• Summer-houses, 86
• Switzer, Stephen, 39
• T
• Telegraph Hill, 178
• Templars, 7
• Temple, The, 262, 264–279
• —— Bencher’s Garden, Inner, 275
• —— Bencher’s Garden, Middle, 275
• Temple Garden, chambers built on the, 266
• —— flowers in, 272
• —— Fountain, 269–275
• —— green-house, 272
• —— iron gates, 271
• —— re-turfing, 268
• —— sun-dial, 271
• —— Wars of the Roses begin in, 277
• Thrale Place, 209
• Tinworth, sculpture by, 163–166
• Tooting Beck, 208
• —— Common, 208, 210
• —— Graveney, 208
• Tortoise at Lambeth, 307
• Toxopholite Society, 307
• Tradescant, 16, 298
• Trees at Fulham, 310, 345
• —— in Chelsea Physic Garden, 321–323
• —— in Greenwich Park, 106, 110, 114
• —— in Hyde Park, 57
• —— in Municipal Parks, 125, 137, 141, 144, 145, 147, 151, 153, 175, 182
• —— in Regent’s Park, 103
• —— in squares, 223
• —— pruning of, 128
• Trinity Hospital, Mile End, 293
• Turner, William, 257
• Tyburn, Manor of, 56, 83
• U
• Upper Park, 74
• Uvedale, Robert, 323
• V
• Vatcher, Rev. Sidney, 295
• Vauxhall Gardens, 161
• Vauxhall Park, 161–164
• —— purchase of, 162
• Veitch, 17
• Verjuice, 10
• Victoria Docks, 157
• Victoria Park, 120, 135–139
• —— birds in, 139
• —— planting in, 137
• Victoria Park Cemetery, 248
• Victoria, Queen, Memorial, 80
• Vineyards, 9, 59, 180
• Vintage, 10
• W
• Wages in 1554, 85
• Wandsworth Common, 212
• Waterlow Park, 145–150
• —— historical events in, 147–149
• —— ponds in, 147
• —— trees in, 147
• Waterlow, Sir Sidney, 145, 149
• Waterworks Company, 38
• Westminster, 10, 25, 38, 58, 299
• Westminster Abbey, 299–305
• —— gardens in monastic times, 302
• —— Little Cloister, 299
• Whip Club, 54
• Whitechapel, 18
• Whitfield, 165
• Wild flowers near London, 20
• William III., 36, 41
• Wine, 10
• Winter Garden, Duke Street, 219
• Wise, 41
• Woolwich, 202
• Wormwood Scrubs, 198
• Y
• Yews, Irish, 245
• Z
• Zoological Society, 100
• Zouche, Lord, Garden in Hackney, 16