| Title: | Love-lies-bleeding; cat tail |
| Original Title: | Passe Velours ou Queues de Renard |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 12 (1765), p. 125 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
| Subject terms: |
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): | "Love-lies-bleeding; cat tail." 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.did2222.0002.240>. Trans. of "Passe Velours ou Queues de Renard," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 12. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Love-lies-bleeding; cat tail." 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.did2222.0002.240 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Passe Velours ou Queues de Renard," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 12:125 (Paris, 1765). |
Love-lies-bleeding, cat-tail, a type of amaranth to which gardeners have given the name ‘cat-tail’ because of the shape of the flowers, which are drooping spikes of a pallid red. [1] The longish leaves are almost red, as is the stem. It is little valued and scarcely ever planted in flower beds. It produces small, shiny seeds like other amaranths and springs up in the open ground.
Notes
1. Amaranthus caudatus, the flowers of which are blood-red. For contemporary usages of ‘passe-velours’ and ‘queues-de-renard’, see Glossary. See also article Amaranthus.