I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great
Italy.
Shak.
Garden is often used adjectively or in self- explaining compounds; as,
garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or
gardenhouse.
Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina). -- Garden
engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens. -- Garden
glass. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of
dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding
objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany. -- Garden
house (a) A summer house. Beau. & Fl. (b) A privy. [Southern U.S.] --
Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits,
vegetables, etc., for sale. -- Garden mold or mould, rich, mellow earth
which is fit for a garden. Mortimer. -- Garden nail, a cast nail used,
for fastening vines to brick walls. Knight. -- Garden net, a net for
covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds. --
Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or
garden attached to a private residence. -- Garden plot, a plot
appropriated to a garden. Garden pot, a watering pot. -- Garden pump, a
garden engine; a barrow pump. -- Garden shears, large shears, for
clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc. - - Garden spider, (Zoˆl.),
the diadem spider (Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe
and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and
Spider web. -- Garden stand, a stand for flower pots. -- Garden stuff,
vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.] -- Garden syringe, a syringe
for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying
insects, etc. -- Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market.
[Colloq.] -- Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.] Mortimer. -- Bear
garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc. -- Hanging garden.
See under Hanging. -- Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are
cultivated for household use. -- Market garden, a piece of ground where
vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
Gar"den, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gardened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gardening.]
To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice
horticulture.
Gar"den, v. t. To cultivate as a garden.
Gar"den*er (?), n. One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
||Garde"ni*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of
||which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so
||called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.
Gar"den*ing (?), n. The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating
gardens; horticulture.
Gar"den*less (?), a. Destitute of a garden. Shelley.
Gar"den*ly (?), a. Like a garden. [R.] W. Marshall.