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What, if any, are the differences between a belvedere, a gazebo, a pavilion and a summerhouse? How does one distinguish between an allée and an alley, and when does an allée become an avenue? What particular characteristics mark an Islamic garden or a Japanese one? What are gazon coupé, a milliarium and a crinkle-crankle wall? As the number of visitors to historic gardens has increased dramatically in recent years, demand has grown for information about the history both of individual gardens and of garden styles. Many books have been published and readers will come across a range of unusual terms. This alphabetical glossary of over five hundred entries explains and illustrates such terms so that readers of garden literature and visitors to gardens may appreciate more fully and precisely what they are reading or seeing. A final chapter outlines the work of leading British garden designers from John Evelyn to Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.