INDEX

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

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