| Title: | Fig orchard |
| Original Title: | Figuerie |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 6 (1756), p. 745 |
| 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. "Fig orchard." 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.did2222.0002.032>. Trans. of "Figuerie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 6. Paris, 1756. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Fig orchard." 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.did2222.0002.032 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Figuerie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 6:745 (Paris, 1756). |
Fig orchard, the area reserved for figs. In large kitchen gardens, there is always a small, separate garden for these trees, as there is an area reserved for melon beds. [1]
Notes
1. See article Melon ground. The melon was the ‘prestige fruit’ of the eighteenth century: it was assigned to a small enclosed melon ground inside the kitchen garden and grown on raised beds of manure (article ‘Kitchen garden’, Helen Leach, in Jellicoe et al., 1991, p. 315). In article ‘Melon (Agriculture)’, Jaucourt criticizes Bradley and Miller for advocating methods of raising melons which were ‘contrary to the laws of nature’, and states that no one in France had improved upon La Quintinie’s methods of melon culture (translated from article ‘Melon (Agriculture)’, Encyclopédie, x.320).