hortus

1. A pleasure garden or pleasure ground of the ancients, similar in style and arrangement to the garden of a modern Italian villa.

2. Any type of garden in ancient Rome.

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I'm afraid I know nothing of the theory of it, but I keep his Hortus Siccus in order.

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Back on the horticultural trail, the Hortus Botanicus - one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world - has been a sanctuary from the city for 300 years, and has 4,000 plant species in its gardens and greenhouses.

Flower power; Millions of bulbs are being planted in Holland, ready for next spring. Lindsay Sutton reports on this growth industry

Easigrass returned to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 this week with garden designer Tony Smith of Hortus Infinitus and, for the first time in history, supported by exclusive retail partner, John Lewis with the Outdoor Living range and Collection/Collection Weekend Fashion.

Easigrass Celebrates Fourth Win at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 with Tony Smith and John Lewis and Launches Easi-Scape

He's been at it since he was a boy in Louisiana, and later, while working at Hortus nursery in Pasadena, where owner Gary Jones launched a series of weekend tomato sales.

Tomato time! Tricks to ensure a successful harvest--even with late-start seedlings

PONIATOWSKI PROWADZACY DZIALALNOSC GOSPODARCZA POD NAZWA ARCHITEKTURA ZIELENI HORTUS

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In addition to the Bahamian plants described in his Natural History, Catesby (1767) mentioned a Bahamian Juniperus in his Hortus europae-americanus, though he conflated it with the eastern North American species now known as Juniperus virginiana L.

Systematics, taxonomy, and the new flora of the Bahamian Archipelago

Roxburgh's other key publications include Hortus Bengalensis (1813-14), Flora Indica (edited by William Carey: Vol.

A Calcutta Florilegia: William Roxburgh's Flora Inclica Drawings

Strachey says of Edward Lear's "nonsense botany" that these images are not "mere grotesque distortions, but natural representations of dogs and caterpillars, hearth-brooms, bottles and boots, severally combined into such life-like imitations of actual flowers, that the botanist who would not wish to be able to add them to his herbarium must be as dry as his own hortus siccus" (208).

Developmental nonsense in the Alice tales

JOB NOW: Chief Operating & Marketing Officer, Hortus Ltd.

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Vicente, however, focused on a hortus conclusus rather than on the sweeping, open space of the shore.

Esteban Vicente: ameringer / mcenery / yohe

6) He not only transforms the hortus conclusus of the convent into the locus of sexual activity but also literalizes the mystical metaphor of the bride of Christ in such a way that when Masetto returns to his village he sees himself as having cuckolded Christ, "affermando che cosi trattava Cristo chi gli poneva le corna sopra 'l cappello" ("affirming that that was how Christ treated those who put horns on His crown" Dec.

Eroticizing theology in day three and the poetics of the Decameron

The last tapestry depicts the Unicorn in Captivity (the risen Christ) seated in the hortus conclusus before a pomegranate tree (the cross, but also the flower of Isis), wearing the chaine d'amour.

The body of the virgin and the body of the beast: reflections on medieval monstrosity

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