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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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garden balsam
garden balsam common name for the species Impatiens balsamina, a member of the jewelweed family. ... Read more |
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garden
garden land set aside for the cultivation of flowers, herbs, vegetables, or small fruits, for either utility or ornament. Gardens range in size from window boxes and small dooryard plots to the public botanical garden and commercial truck garden (see truck farming ). Garden types are also widely... Read more |
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Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll 1843-1932, British artist, landscape gardener, and crafts artist. She was associated with William Robinson and Edwin Lutyens in developing an informal and natural style of garden. Her works include Wood and Garden (1899) and Garden Ornament (1918).... Read more |
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kindergarten
kindergarten XIX. — G., ‘children's garden’, f. g. pl. of kind child + garten GARDEN.... Read more |
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garden city
Garden City and Garden Suburb. The concept of the Garden City was devised in England by Ebenezer Howard in order to combine the benefits of town and country, and involved the creation of a town built in the countryside with all facilities, places of work, etc. Influenced by the Garden Suburbs... Read more |
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Multiplier
MULTIPLIER The multiplier is a conceptual tool used to capture the complicated process by which changes in spending affect a nation's income. It is based on the idea that a small change in spending can bring about a much larger change in income. Consider the following example as an illustration of... Read more |
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Tuileries
Tuileries , former palace in Paris. Planned by Catherine de' Medici and begun in 1564 by Philibert Delorme , it occupied part of the present Tuileries gardens. It was rarely used as a royal residence until 1789, when Louis XVI was forced by the revolutionists to move there from Versailles. He and... Read more |
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botanical garden
botanical garden public place in which plants are grown both for display and for scientific study. An arboretum is a botanical garden devoted chiefly to the growing of woody plants. The plants in botanical gardens are labeled, usually with both the common and the scientific names, and they are... Read more |
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Capability Brown
Capability Brown (Lancelot Brown), 1715-83, English landscape gardener, b. Kirkharle, Northumberland. The leading landscape gardener of his time, he is known for designing gardens that broke with the French formal tradition. He favored a distinctively English style of grandly picturesque,... Read more |
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