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• Bed
  as hot bed, cold bed, kitchen bed, nursery bed, or flower bed. The form and techniques of making specialized utilitarian beds, such as hot beds, changed
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• Edging
  “On Flower Beds” (Magazine of Horticulture 6: 52–53) “It is probably as difficult to fix upon the most suitable plant for the edging of a flower bed, as it
  30 KB (4,314 words) - 10:44, April 6, 2021
• Geometric style
  1848, “Design for a Small Flower Garden” (Horticulturist 2: 503) “The old geometric flower gardens, laid out with long beds, bordered with box, and separated
  29 KB (4,176 words) - 11:57, March 16, 2021
• Flower garden
  “irregular” flower garden, the “English” flower garden, and the “old French” flower garden. The 19th century witnessed another style of flower gardening:
  123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
• Noah Webster
  1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1: n.p.) “BED, n. [Sax. bed; D. bed; G. bett or beet; Goth. badi. The sense is a lay or spread, from
  55 KB (8,122 words) - 21:48, October 5, 2021
• Border
  Thomas Jefferson, Plan of serpentine walk and flower beds at Monticello, May 23, 1808. Anonymous, “English Flower-Garden,” in A. J. Downing, A Treatise on the
  49 KB (6,996 words) - 20:56, March 29, 2021
• Parterre
  kind of flower in a bed so as that each bed shall be a mass of one colour, and the other is to plant flowers of different colours in the same bed. It is
  62 KB (8,610 words) - 10:50, April 6, 2021
• Monticello
  of Monticello with oval and round flower beds [detail], 1807. Thomas Jefferson, Sketch of the garden and flower beds at Monticello, June 7, 1807. Thomas
  78 KB (10,171 words) - 00:22, August 25, 2021
• Plot/Plat
  no. 11 (May 1848; 503-504) "DESIGN FOR A SMALL FLOWER GARDEN" ". . .The following little plan of a flower garden, of this kind, on a small scale, is adopted
  54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
• Walk
  arabesque bed, set in turf." Downing, A. J., May 1848, “Design for a Small Flower Garden” (Horticulturist 2: 503–4) “The following little plan of a flower garden
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Lawn
  Jackson, May 1848, “Design for a Small Flower Garden” (Horticulturist 2: 503–4) “The following little plan of a flower garden, of this kind, on a small scale
  108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
• English style
  May 1848, “Design for a Small Flower garden” (Horticulturist 2: 503) “The old geometric flower gardens, laid out with long beds, bordered with box, and separated
  33 KB (4,627 words) - 14:28, February 17, 2021
• Terrace/Slope
  occasionally also ornamented with statuary, vases, urns, and plantings such as flower beds or, more rarely, topiary. Charles Lyell recorded his observations of a
  72 KB (10,105 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
• Alcove
  dining room is towards the garden. Directly beneath is the parterre, or flower beds cut into the turf on the lawn, at k; beyond this is the light archway
  13 KB (1,538 words) - 10:29, February 4, 2021
• Temple
  Schuylkill, verso, 1840. Thomas Jefferson, Plan showing the rectangular flower beds and proposed temples at the corners of the terrace walks at Monticello
  44 KB (5,866 words) - 14:29, April 1, 2021
• Gardenesque
  “On Flower Beds” (Magazine of Horticulture 6: 52) “A living margin, therefore, becomes the next and last expedient [in making a flower knot or bed]; and
  30 KB (4,397 words) - 16:03, July 14, 2020
• Hermitage
  acre and half of ground, and was neatly laid out in lawns, arbours, and flower-beds, with two prettily ornamented open octagonal arcades, each supporting
  21 KB (2,795 words) - 15:21, November 12, 2020
• Statue
  f; g and h are gravel walks; i, beds, with pedestal and statue in the centre; k, small oval beds, separated from the bed, l, by a border or turf; m, n,
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Shrubbery
  (1840), vol. 2, pl. 11. Anonymous, The Flower-Garden, in Joseph Breck, The Flower-Garden: or, Breck’s Book of Flowers (1841), frontispiece. John Warner Barber
  81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
• Avenue
  Yards—Shrubbery—Flowers,” Horticultural Register, and Gardener’s Magazine 4 (April 1, 1838): 136–39, view on Zotero. M. A. W., “On Flower Beds,” Magazine of
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021

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