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Webster 1913 Edition
Garden
Gar′den
(gär′d’n; 277)
, Noun.
[OE.
gardin
, OF. gardin
, jardin
, F. jardin
, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto
, G. garten
; akin to AS. geard
. See Yard
an inclosure.] 1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
2.
A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant
The pleasant
garden
of great Italy. Shakespeare
☞ Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
Garden balsam
, an ornamental plant (
– Impatiens Balsamina
). Garden engine
, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
– Garden glass
. (a)
A bell glass for covering plants.
(b)
A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; – much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
– Garden house
(a)
A summer house.
Beau. & Fl.
(b)
A privy.
[Southern U.S.]
– Garden husbandry
, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
– Garden mold
or Garden mould
rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden.
Mortimer.
– Garden nail
, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls.
Knight.
– Garden net
, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
– Garden party
, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
– Garden plot
, a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot
, a watering pot.
– Garden pump
, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
– Garden shears
, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
– Garden spider
, (Zool.)
, the diadem spider (
– Epeira diadema
), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider
, and Spider web
. Garden stand
, a stand for flower pots.
– Garden stuff
, vegetables raised in a garden.
[Colloq.]
– Garden syringe
, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
– Garden truck
, vegetables raised for the market.
[Colloq.]
– Garden ware
, garden truck.
[Obs.]
Mortimer.
– Bear garden
, Botanic garden
etc. See under
– Bear
, etc. Hanging garden
. See under
– Hanging
. Kitchen garden
, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
– Market garden
, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
Gar′den
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gardened
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gardening
.] To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
Gar′den
,Verb.
T.
To cultivate as a garden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Garden
G`ARDEN
,Noun.
1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers and shrubs is called a flower garden; and that to fruits, is called a fruit garden. But these uses are sometimes blended.2.
A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. The intervals on the river Connecticut are all a garden. Lombardy is the garden of Italy.Garden, in composition, is used adjectively, as garden-mold, a rich fine mold or soil; garden-tillage,the tillage used in cultivating gardens.
G`ARDEN
,Verb.
I.