| Title: | Cross of Jerusalem, Maltese cross |
| Original Title: | Croix de Jerusalem ou de Malte |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 4 (1754), p. 512 |
| Author: | Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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Gardening
Botany
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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. "Cross of Jerusalem, Maltese cross." 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.did2222.0001.893>. Trans. of "Croix de Jerusalem ou de Malte," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4. Paris, 1754. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Cross of Jerusalem, Maltese cross." 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.did2222.0001.893 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Croix de Jerusalem ou de Malte," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 4:512 (Paris, 1754). |
Cross of Jerusalem. Maltese cross, a species of Lychnis to which these names have been given. [1] Its stem grows to two feet and divides into several small branches bearing long, pointed leaves. Flowers appear at the tips of the branches forming parasols. They have five petals, as though they were so many crosses, and are scarlet, white, or diversely-coloured. The flowers turn into conical fruits containing many seeds which propagate the species. These crosses appear in summer in all soil types: they thrive in bright sunshine and are planted in flower beds.
Notes
1. Now Silene chalcedonica . See D. J. Mabberley, The Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants (Cambridge, 1997), 662.