[2] _Letting_ in Elizabethan English, of course, bore the opposite meaning to ours, as in “let and hinder.” INDEX Abel, musician, 125 Acorns exported from Kew, 185 Addison, quoted, 90 Æolus, Temple of, 169 Aiton, John, 102 Aiton, William, 100 Aiton, William Townsend, 102 Albert, Prince, 110 Amelia, Princess, 64, 79 Amelia’s House, Princess, 30 Arch, the ruined, 199 Argyll, Duke of, 9 Aroid House, 170 Assassination, George III.’s escape from, 36 Augusta, Princess of Saxe-Gotha, 13 Australian vegetation, 182 Ayrton, Mr., 109 Azaleas, 196 Bach, J. C., 40, 125 Bacon’s Essay, _Of Gardens_, 85 Bamboos, 186 Bauer, Francis, 146 Birch, uses of, 187 Bluebells, 196 Bohemia, Anne of, 2 Boswell, 70 Botanic Garden at Kew, 95, 101, 107, 112 Botanists, portraits of explorers and, 195 Bradley, Astronomer-Royal, 87 Brazil nuts, 193 Brentford, 8, 77, 113, 119, 132 Bridgeman, gardener, 91 Brown, “Capability,” 95 Buckingham Palace, 27, 32, 78 Buitenzorg Gardens, Java, 161 Burney, Miss, quoted, 46, 59, 66, 67 Burton, Decimus, 108 Bushey Park, 149 Bute, Earl of, 19, 23, 95, 123 “Buttonmaker,” nickname of George III., 31 Byam, Rev. R. B., 145 Cactus aloe, 169 Cambridge Cottage, 46, 123, 153, 156 Cambridge, Duke Adolphus of, 45, 81, 116, 153 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