This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... measure of fruittrees. See Xenoph. Anal., 3,12; Bophocl. (Edip. Colon. 16, sqq. Pausanias, however, (i. 21, 9, ) speaking of a grove of Apollo at Athens, says: ivQa 'A-jroXXwi/ov jcaXXiffToi' 2Xrov toipiprnv Kal lificputv Kal offa Ttov dxapTrmv irr/ni/ vapeerat Two. ij 6cas ij.' m ijV. Plato even speaks, though rather ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... measure of fruittrees. See Xenoph. Anal., 3,12; Bophocl. (Edip. Colon. 16, sqq. Pausanias, however, (i. 21, 9, ) speaking of a grove of Apollo at Athens, says: ivQa 'A-jroXXwi/ov jcaXXiffToi' 2Xrov toipiprnv Kal lificputv Kal offa Ttov dxapTrmv irr/ni/ vapeerat Two. ij 6cas ij.' m ijV. Plato even speaks, though rather problematically, of works on horticulture, Mm. p. 316: Tfomv oBv ctm Ta trepl Kt'iirtav ipyarlai ruyypdfifjuera Kal po/u/ia; If such existed, we may be sure that they treated rather of the operations of agriculture or the kitchen-garden, than of floriculture. The flowers most cultivated were those adapted for chnplets, as violets, roses, parsley, and so on; and in these perhaps there was a regular trade. Thus in Demosth. in jVicos/r. p. 1251, a rose-plantation, poSiavidv pXatrrduouaav, is kept by a man whom we should hardly suspect of doing so for pleasure only. Excepting the mjirout i rnu'.i i-. Aristoph. Aves, 1066, there appears to be no other mention made of Greek flower-gardens during the better period. At a later time, under the Ptolemies, and especially at Alexandria, great progress appears to have been made; and the gardeners there studied particularly to have roses and other flowers all the year round, an object which the climate rendered easy of attainment. Callixen. ap. Athen. v. p. 196: if yap At-yinr-rot Tijif Tow ircpie'xoirov depoy fVKpaaiav Kal Sid roue KfjTreuoirras Ta nrai/i'0s xal KaO' aipai/ &verriKviav kv Ct-poiv (pvopeva T'i'tt.jiv atpBova yevaa Kal iid irayrd?, Kal ( n p6Sovt Uuts XctfKtTtov, Out- ciXXo paSitay dvQof iKltretv "iVt'.f uiVYjTN-r' eladev. But whether the art advanced in Greece itself cannot be determined; for the parks described by Longus, Pott. iv. p. 108, and by Achill. Tat. i. 15, are ...
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Good. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); Cloth covered. Chipped top of spine. Tide mark in the gutter andmargins of the preface. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
