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† physic garden Obs.
[See physic n. 6, a. 2: cf. F. jardin de pharmacie.]
A garden for the cultivation of medicinal plants; hence, a botanic garden; also physical garden, physical 4.
1637Lease fr. Magd. Coll. to Univ. Oxford 17 Apr., [Ground] for a Physicke Garden. [Referred to in a petition of 5 July 1626 as ‘the Phisitions Garden’.] 1644Evelyn Diary 20 Oct., Pisa.—We went to the Colledge... To this the Physiq Garden lyes. 1699Phil. Trans. XXI. 63 Rare and non-descript Plants,..cultivated either in publick Physick-Gardens, or those of private curious Persons. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 314 A very curious physic-garden, which contains the choicest exotics. 1814Hist. Univ. Oxford II. 241 In 1715, John Robinson..presented many curious exotic plants to the Physic Garden. 1879Handbk. Univ. Oxford 59 The Botanic Garden, formerly known as the Physic Garden, was founded in the year 1622. |