| Title: | Maltese cross, cross of Jerusalem |
| Original Title: | Ecarlate, Croix de Chevalier, Croix de Jerusalem |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 5 (1755), p. 219 |
| Author: | Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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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. "Maltese cross, cross of Jerusalem." 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.did2222.0001.942>. Trans. of "Ecarlate, Croix de Chevalier, Croix de Jerusalem," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5. Paris, 1755. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Maltese cross, cross of Jerusalem." 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.did2222.0001.942 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Ecarlate, Croix de Chevalier, Croix de Jerusalem," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 5:219 (Paris, 1755). |
Maltese cross, cross of Jerusalem, a plant which produces many buds in the form of a parasol at the tip of the stem, which on opening look like so many scarlet crosses. [1] It requires kitchen garden soil and plenty of sunshine, and propagates from seed.
Notes
1. This is the capitate inflorescence of Silene chalcedonica, which is 10-50 flowered (Huxley et al., 1992, iii. 137). See also article Cross of Jerusalem.