| Title: | Aster, Michaelmas daisy |
| Original Title: | Aster Atticus, Oculus Christi |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 776 |
| 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. "Aster, Michaelmas daisy." 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.did2222.0001.758>. Trans. of "Aster Atticus, Oculus Christi," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Aster, Michaelmas daisy." 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.did2222.0001.758 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Aster Atticus, Oculus Christi," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:776 (Paris, 1751). |
Aster, Michaelmas daisy [1], a perennial which grows several reddish stems and pale-green, oblong leaves. It has pretty blue, violet, or sometimes white radiate flowers with yellow centres: the tips of the petals are oblong and each flower has a pappus. There are two varieties with variegated leaves. They grow in the wild and propagate from their flourishing roots. They flower in autumn and may be put into flower beds, lawns, between isolated trees, and along terrace walls and winding paths.
Notes
1. The ‘œil-du-Christ’ in French. There are about 250 species of Aster: the name ‘Michaelmas daisy’ was given to the sea aster or Aster tripolium due to its late flowering, with which Michaelmas Day coincided. It became transferred to the common garden plant, derived from North American species in the eighteenth century, only after 1752, when the adoption of the Gregorian calendar caused the feast to fall 11 days earlier, that is, on 29 September, when these species are in flower (Mabey, 1996, p. 366). See D. J. Mabberley, The Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants (Cambridge, 1997), 63.