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ll-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak.

One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

duce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.

The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.

Destitute of a garden. Shelley.

Like a garden. [R.] W. Marshall.

Horticulture. [Obs.]

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

f mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

rson. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

n the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. "This fair tree amidst the garden." "Unseen amid the throng." "Amidst thick clouds." Milton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

e excitement; that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

s of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.

right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye,…