| Title: | Winter cherry |
| Original Title: | Amomum [abridged] |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 366 |
| Author: | Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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Gardening
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Winter cherry." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.744>. Trans. of "Amomum [abridged]," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Winter cherry." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.744 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Amomum [abridged]," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:366 (Paris, 1751). |
Winter cherry. [1] [2] A shrub with brown wood, yellow, green-black leaves, white flowers, and fruit which is red and round like a cherry. Amomum retains its leaves and fruit while overwintering in the orangery, and sheds them only in spring. It is propagated from seed.
Notes
1. Naturalis Historia, book XII, ch. 28. Amomum and Solanum are separate genera.
2. Solanum pseudecapsicum.