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Gardens and Plant Collections in France and Italy in the Seventeenth Century
Antoine Schnapper
The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day
In gardening, making a collection tends to be a paradoxical idea, since flowers and fruits, though they are capable of reappearing the following year, are transient. There is a difference between the scientific sort of collection, herbaria (hortus siccus) or botanic gardens, where the purpose is to gather together the greatest possible number of vegetable species, and gardens which aim to...
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Antoine Schnapper
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MIT Press
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© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Subjects:
Gardens, French
Gardens, Italian
Gardens, Baroque
Botanical gardens
Flowers--Breeding
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