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spring garden
[f. spring n.1 2 and 9.]
†a. A nursery for young plants. In quot. fig. Obs.
†b. A garden having concealed jets of water liable to be set in action by persons treading on the mechanism. Obs.
†c. A pleasure-garden frequented by the public. Obs.
In later use chiefly as the special name of popular resorts in Hyde Park and at Vauxhall.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xxxvi. 431 All..haue made vse of..his Bookes, as of a Seminarie, a Spring-garden or Store-house of all kinds of sufficiency and learning. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Four Plays i, Sophocles would..Like a spring garden shoot his scornfull blood Into their eyes, durst come to tread on him. a1664K. Philips Country Life Poems (1667) 90 To Hide-parke let them go, And hasting thence be full of fears, To lose Spring-Garden shew. 1685(title), The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence,..as they are managed in the Spring Garden, Hyde Park. c1700C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 181 Its a place that is used like our Spring Gardens, for the Company of the Town to walk in the Evening. 1751(title), A Sketch of the Spring-Gardens, Vaux-hall. 1752(title), The Spring-Garden Journal.
d. A garden containing many plants that bloom early in the year.
1883W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden i. p. l/1 What we should counsel those who care for their spring gardens is this: To begin and always to work with a series of nursery beds. 1914E. A. Bowles My Garden in Spring xvii. 295 If you have enjoyed strolling round the spring garden with me..I hope later on you will accompany me on a second journey to review the summer aspect of the place and plants. 1947H. Nicolson Diary May (1968) 97 Sissinghurst is lovely. The spring-garden has lost its early bloom. |