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One who cultivates a garden.

Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards.

The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.

Belonging to a garden. [Obs.] Evelyn.

atform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. -- Hot wall (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit. -- Hot well (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air…

other species or stock. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids. J. D. Hooker.

s and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.

A machine for throwing water by hand power, as a garden engine, a fire extinguisher, etc.

ot, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.

of Calotropis and Faramea. [Written also jessamine.] Cape jasmine, or Cape jessamine, the Gardenia florida, a shrub with fragrant white flowers, a native of China, and hardy in the Southern United States.

n or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.

kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. [Scot.] Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]

d upon; to have the care of; to tend. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. Gen. ii. 15. In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.

A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. Kitchen garden. See under Garden. -- Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] " A brazen tub of kitchen lee." Ford. -- Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.

A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. "Garden knots." Bacon. Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

Having intersecting lines or figures. The west corner of thy curious knotted garden. Shak.

rly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. Milton.

intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

dium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).