| Title: | Ornamental grove |
| Original Title: | Bosquet |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 2 (1752), pp. 337–2:338 |
| Author: | Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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Gardening
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| 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. "Ornamental grove." 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.did2222.0001.792>. Trans. of "Bosquet," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 2. Paris, 1752. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Ornamental grove." 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.did2222.0001.792 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Bosquet," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 2:337–2:338 (Paris, 1752). |
Ornamental grove, bosquet , a small wood in a private garden. It is like saying a ‘bouquet’ of verdure or an ornamental wood, in the centre of which there is usually a salle de verdure decorated with fountains and sunken parterres, and fitted with seats for resting. [1]
Ornamental groves embellish gardens and form one of their principal decorations. They enhance other garden features and conceal distasteful views. They are themselves decorated with every conceivable ornament, with rond points, quincunxes, cloisters, salles de verdure, covered walks, labyrinths, Saint Andrew’s crosses, branching crossroads, enfilades, guilloches, culs-de-sac, crossroads, cabinets de verdure, etc. [2]
The bosquet represented in plate VI is a rectangle indented at the four corners, with diagonal walks leading into an extended octagonal figure. [3] There are supports for vases or statuettes opposite each walk. Four walks lead to the central chamber, where there is an ornamental lake arched at each end and a bubbling fountain at the centre. [4] The four seats fitted into the hedgerow of the octagon opposite each walk offer a view of the fountain while remaining hidden. There are four more seats in the small arched cabinets de verdure fitted into the corners of the central chamber.
One may find the methods of tracing out and planting this bosquet in articles To trace out and To plant.
Notes
1. ‘Bosquets are groves so called from “bouquet”, a nosegay in French’ (article ‘Bosquets’, Miller, 1724, i.B113). A salle de verdure, or garden room, is an open area at the centre of a bosquet (article ‘Salle de verdure’, Alice Park, in Jellicoe et al., 1991, p. 497).
2. A cabinet de verdure is a small enclosed garden in a bosquet (article ‘Cabinet de verdure’, Woodbridge, in ibid., p. 88).
3. Agriculture and Rustic Economy, Gardening, plate VI: Bosquet with an ornamental lake, above, p. 127.
4. The French for ornamental lake is ‘pièce d’eau’, and ‘piece of water’ was an acceptable term in English in the eighteenth century: ‘when they [basins] exceed a certain size, they are called pieces of water’ (article ‘Basons of fountains’, Miller, 1724, i.B116). Guy translates ‘pièces d’eau’ as ‘sheets of water’ or ‘ornamental lake’ (Ligne, 1991, p. 64).