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	History of gardening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though cultivation of plants for food long predates history, the earliest evidence for ornamental gardens is seen in Egyptian tomb paintings of the 1500s BC; they depict lotus ponds surrounded by rows of acacias and palms.
		The other ancient gardening tradition is of Persia: Darius the Great was said to have had a "paradise garden" and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were renowned as a Wonder of the World.
		In Europe, gardening revived in Languedoc and the Ile-de-France in the 13th century, and in the Italian villa gardens of the early Renaissance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_gardening (1452 words)

	Gardening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although a garden typically is located on the land near a residence, it may also be located in a roof, in an atrium, on a balcony, in a windowbox, or on a patio or vivarium.
		Gardening also takes place in non-residential green areas, such as parks, public or semi-public gardens (botanical gardens or zoological gardens), amusement and theme parks, along transportation corridors, and around tourist attractions and hotels.
		Indoor gardening is concerned with the growing of houseplants within a residence or building, in a conservatory, or in a greenhouse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gardening (894 words)

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		The earliest evidence for ornamental gardens is seen in Egyptian tomb paintings of the 1500s BC; they depict lotus ponds surrounded by rows of acacias and palmss.
		The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were renowned as a Wonder of the World, although their existence is doubted.
		Darius the Great was said to have had a "paradise garden"; and around 350 BC there were gardens at the Academy of Athens.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_gardening.html (503 words)

	Gardening History of - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Gardening, History of, development of gardening as a leisure activity from ancient history to the present day.
		Gardening, cultivation of plants in enclosed areas for ornamental purposes.
		Garden, Mary (1874-1967), American operatic soprano, noted for her dramatic talent, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and reared in the United States....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Gardening_History_of.html (109 words)

	Gardening History Timeline: From Ancient Times to the 20th Century ...
		One of the oldest surviving garden plans is for the garden of a court official in Thebes.
		Farmers and gardeners frequently keep detailed logs of their work, and decimal arithmetic is widely used to track important details, e.g., costs of plants and materials, percentage of plants in a batch of cuttings that took, quarts of berries picked, current supermarket price of fresh green beans, etc..
		Gardens of Babur (1483-1530), Mughal Emperor, in Persia and India.
	www.gardendigest.com /timegl.htm (2648 words)

	Pacific Northwest Garden History Homepage
		Gardeners and farmers, even those with little skill, were almost certain of good crops, thanks to the mild climate, rich soil, and nearly pest-free growing conditions.
		Gardening has always had a competitive side, and early gardeners were immensely proud of the giant vegetables they grew.
		A botanist by training, she has worked in public gardens, taught plant science at the community college level, and served as a consultant and speaker on garden history.
	www.halcyon.com /tmend/nwgardenhistory.htm (963 words)

	LavaCUBED \Home\Gardening\History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance - A visual tour of three Renaissance Gardens and their relationship to the art of the period.
		The History of Gardening Timeline - An account of gardening from ancient times to the twentieth century organized by time periods with links to supplementary information.
		Museum of Garden History - The recreation of a historic knot garden and the history of British gardens and plants are included as is a virtual visit to several exhibits at the museum.
	www.lavacubed.com /new.cats.php?path=/Home/Gardening/History (680 words)

	Gardening History-Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The earlist gardens were where their medicinal plants were grown, as they enlarged them they added vegetable plants for food.
		He was intrested in trees, plants, gardening, and agriculture in general.
		It was these years where the skill, devotion, and unending work of the early botanist and gardeners placed horticulture on a solid foundation.
	www.gaygardener.com /history/penn.html (723 words)

	History :: Gardening
		Knowledge of history is often said to encompass both knowledge of past events and historical thinking skills.
		Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance: A visual tour of three Renaissance Gardens and their relationship to the art of the period.
		Museum of Garden History: The recreation of a historic knot garden and the history of British gardens and plants are included as is a virtual visit to several exhibits at the museum.
	home.gourt.com /Gardening/History.html (1085 words)

	The Gardening Articles - Mini History
		Gardening has been around in one form or another for centuries, but thanks to the extensive drawings, and various artefacts left in the tombs and temples of the early Egyptians, the gardens of ancient Egypt left particular impact on later cultures.
		The Athenians planted trees in their many public meeting places, and used shrine and grotto gardens (a design idea which was later adopted by renaissance garden designers) for religious purposes.
		The Romans made their gardens an extension of the house, rather than just an external feature (sometimes to the extent of sacrificing living space).
	www.wezel.com /garden/articles/history.htm (715 words)

	Gardens Through History \| Gardening Feature \| Abbeville Press
		With its sumptuous color plates, comprehensive scope, and fascinating text, this ground-breaking international history of the garden as an art form is easily the most ambitious and rewarding work of its kind.
		Although there have been garden histories, there has never been one of this historical and global scope, a history that is solidly based in the author's vast learning, both in the worlds of literature and art as well as gardening, and graced by its masterful prose.
		The author develops this section of the book through an extensive coverage of the history of garden culture in the Western Hemisphere, beginning with the worldwide exchange of new plant discoveries starting in the seventeenth century as European plantsmen scoured the world for exotic additions to the plantings in fledgling botanical gardens.
	www.abbeville.com /gardening/history.asp (416 words)

	Gardening - The Consumer - UK
		For gardening as a hobby to be fashionable, and for the design of even modest suburban gardens to be influenced by fashion, is by no means far-fetched when one considers that everything from children's clothing, cars and home décor through to mobile phones, holiday destinations and kitchen gadgets are now prone to this influence.
		Media coverage of gardening - and other home design matters - exploded in the 1990s and continues to exert a crucial influence on garden style, and the outdoor room phenomenon, extending the kitchen and/or living room into the garden area, is by no means fading away.
		It is a familiar irony of the garden market that the keener the gardener is on traditional gardening methods, the lower the amount spent on the garden.
	www.marketresearch.com /researchindex/1060262.html (352 words)

	Economic history: Farm-gardening and market gardening \| British History Online
		By 1600 garden crops formerly imported into London from East Anglia were being grown closer to the city, particularly in the south-western parishes of Middlesex, where the easily-cultivated gravels together with use of dung from London made intensive commercial cultivation of vegetable crops possible.
		Profitable though market gardening was, from the middle of the 19th century onwards it could not keep pace with the escalating value of land for building, as suburban London continued to expand westwards.
		The nursery was distinguished for the first real display of the garden chrysanthemum in Britain in 1795, and later for hybridization of pelargoniums, gladioli, and hippeastrums; by 1811 it specialized in rare exotics and forced flowers, having between 30,000 and 40,000 sq.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=28707 (4093 words)

	History Gardening Home
		Hear a brief history of the Mayfield Park property and tour gardens and nature trails.
		- The recreation of a historic knot garden and the history of British gardens and plants are included as is a virtual visit to several exhibits at the museum.
		Garden history, information about some of the plants.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Home/Gardening/History/... (906 words)

	History of Gardening In Lubbock
		As is seen in the detailed history of the Lubbock Garden Club, they subscribed to the programs and objectives of federated garden clubs and continued to be the dominant garden group in the area.
		Other garden clubs had been formed by this time and joined the Council of Garden Clubs in anticipation of a place to meet, and some soon after the Center was dedicated.
		Although "gardening" remained a popular hobby, the perception was that there simply wasn't time anymore for involvement in gardening organizations that might require volunteering time for their projects.
	www.lubbockgardenclubs.org /history.html (5713 words)

	history of gardening horticulture
		A god and goddess had two male children who, for their pleasure, planted a garden with trees, flowers, roses, and many kinds of herbs." Learn about how ancient gardens were related to various creation legends and more.
		The layout of a medieval garden usually consisted of a square or slightly elongated rectangle.
		The Museum of Garden History was founded in 1977 at the former church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, next to Lambeth Palace.
	www.archaeolink.com /history_of_gardening_horticultur.htm (1005 words)

	A potted history of gardening
		Susan Tamulevich, a garden historian and author, is seeking to raise the appreciation for pots and other plant cradles with an unusual exhibition that came to Washington on Saturday.
		She picks up the replica of a Dutch greenhouse pot, a smallish eight-inch terra-cotta gem with a shell ornament, but well balanced and with ample handles to keep it safe in the gardener's grubby hand as it moves from outdoors to greenhouse.
		On the east terrace, for example, the show tracks how the Romans, Renaissance Tuscans and gardeners for Louis XIV used different containers to achieve the same goal of growing large citrus trees in pots, to be brought indoors in winter.
	www.azcentral.com /home/garden/articles/0617potted17.html (858 words)

	Rock Gardening -- History and Plants
		The Fosters also discuss the history of the plant in cultivation along with the individual responsible for introducing the plant to gardeners.
		This book is extremely valuable for rock gardeners since it brings together species of bulbs which fit easily into rock garden situations including trough gardens.
		Chapters 1 and 2 discuss climate, habitat, pests and diseases and the use of bulbs in frames, under glass, in peat gardens, in grasslands, in the shade or even in dry shade.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/enabling_garden/52955 (420 words)

	History of Gardening (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For over a century, and across five generations, the Veitch family pioneered the introduction of hundreds of new plants into gardens conservatories and houses and were amongst the foremost European cultivators and hybridisers of their day.
		Realising that horticultural mania had begun to spread throughout the social classes, John’s son, James, opened a nursery in Exeter and began to send some of the first commercial plant collectors into the Americas, Australia, India, Japan, China and the South Seas.
		They became key figures within the gardening establishment and were involved in the Royal Horticultural Society from its early beginnings and the great Chelsea Flower Show.
	www.sirreadalot.org /arts/historygardeningR.htm (207 words)

	USTINET Open Diectory Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A visual tour of three Renaissance Gardens and their relationship to the art of the period.
		The recreation of a historic knot garden and the history of British gardens and plants are included as is a virtual visit to several exhibits at the museum.
		A history of garden vegetables, oirginally published in National Geographic (1949), and reprinted here as a special feature.
	news.usti.net /home/search/od/dir.cgi?d=/Home/Gardening/History (542 words)

	Short History of Water Gardening
		The design tended to include four water features in the form of a cross, thought to stem from the four rivers of the Garden of Eden and the concept of "flowing to the four corners of the earth".
		Roman gardens were largely utilitarian though the gardens of the affluent during the Roman Empire assimilated Islamic design, the use of fountains in particular.
		Renaissance brought with it a resurgence of formal gardens in Europe, in Italy especially.
	www.victoria-adventure.org /water_gardening/history/short_history.html (1029 words)

	Gardening History
		The Classical Chinese Garden Society page - The City of Portland, the City of Suzhou, and the Classical Chinese Garden Trust are working together to build the largest Suzhou style garden outside of China.
		Garden Visit and Travel Guide - Places of interest to gardeners: public gardens, parks open for visits, historic estates and botanic collections.
		U.K. Database of Historic Parks and Gardens - A searchable database of Historic Parks and Gardens in the UK Copyright of: Ability All Rights Reserved:1990 Webmaster.
	www.ability.org.uk /gardening_history.html (378 words)

	HGI Online Gardening Courses - Our History
		Our gardens cover a total of 26 acres on campus and are part of MSU’s mission to provide outdoor “classrooms” for the public and the university community alike for teaching, conservation, research, and enjoyment.
		We’re home to the oldest continuously operated university botanical garden in the United States; demonstration trial gardens for bedding plants and roses—both part of the All-America Selections program; a uniquely interactive children’s garden with 56 individual themes; a six-acre arboretum; demonstration gardens for perennials; a foyer garden; and an idea garden.
		The gardens, thirteen teaching greenhouses, and a conservatory for indoor plant displays form the nucleus of the gardening and horticulture expertise nurtured at MSU, and enlivened through MSU Extension, and Extension’s youth division—its network of 4-H Clubs.
	www.gardeninginstitute.com /dnav/32/page.htm (304 words)

	Gardening History Timeline: 1700 - 1799 ...
		Tours of famous 15th to 18th century gardens in England, Scotland, Wales, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
		Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The mother of King George III, Augusta, helps establish Kew Gardens on part of her estate.
		Ladies of Langollen garden, Plas Newydd, England, by Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby.
	www.gardendigest.com /timel18.htm (751 words)

	A Potted History of Gardening
		Flowerpots have been central to the enjoyment and advance of gardening for at least 10,000 years, and yet our regard for the pot seems as fragile and fleeting as the containers themselves.
		As the show has evolved, Tamulevich, formerly of Bethesda, now a resident of Branford, Conn., has discovered that the dull and dusty topic of flowerpots is anything but dreary.
		At the Whichford Pottery in England, founder Jim Keeling and his potters create reproductions of British and European pots such as the rhubarb forcer (http://www.whichfordpottery.com/).
	www.aplacetotakeroot.com /potted.html (850 words)

	Trexle - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Garden History, Garden Tours and Garden Visit Guide - A guide to garden history, garden tours historic parks, 1000+ gardens and botanic collections open to the public in the UK, USA, Europe, America, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Japan, India, Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland.
		Gardens of the Mughal Empire - An interactive journey through twelve Mughal Gardens including Shalamar.
		Our Vegetable Travelers - A history of garden vegetables, orginally published in National Geographic (1949), and reprinted here as a special feature.
	www.trexle.com /Directory/Top/Home/Gardens/History (513 words)

	85search - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts.
		HIStory: Past, Present and Future – Book I is a double-disc album by Michael Jackson released in 1995 by the Epic Records devision of Sony Music.
		Includes history and the education resources available to students and Colonial history enthusiasts.
	www.85search.com /History (415 words)

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