| 单词 | picturesque gardening |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspicturesque gardening picturesque gardening n. Horticulture (now historical) the arrangement of a garden so as to make it resemble a picture; a romantic style of gardening, aiming at irregular and rugged beauty. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > types of gardening curtilagec1430 kitchen gardening?1700 landscape-gardeninga1763 picturesque gardeninga1763 window gardening1801 landscape architecture1840 rock gardening1840 market gardening1852 water gardening1870 wild gardening1870 olericulture1886 market work1887 trucking1897 tub-gardening1904 landscaping1930 greenswardsmanship1936 godwottery1937 sand gardening1960 xeriscaping1987 a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 125 Gardening may be divided into three species—kitchen-gardening—parterre gardening—and landskip, or picturesque-gardening: which latter..consists in pleasing the imagination by scenes of grandeur, beauty, or variety. 1783 W. Burgh in W. Mason Eng. Garden (new ed.) 236 There is nothing in picturesque Gardening which should not have its archetype in unadorned Nature. 1805 T. Percy Let. May in T. Gray Wks. (1843) V. 193 (note) The value or merit of what is now called picturesque gardening. 1951 Times 9 Oct. 10/2 This was, of course, the period of natural but also of picturesque gardening. 1994 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 May vi. 52/1 The esthetic of the natural garden would appear to represent an extreme version of the 18th-century picturesque-gardening style. < as lemmas |
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