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 THE END _Printed by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh._