| Title: | Viola, pansy |
| Original Title: | Pensée |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 12 (1765), pp. 310–311 |
| 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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| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.251 |
| Citation (MLA): | "Viola, pansy." 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.did2222.0002.251>. Trans. of "Pensée," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 12. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Viola, pansy." 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.did2222.0002.251 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Pensée," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 12:310–311 (Paris, 1765). |
Viola, pansy , a small flower which is tricoloured like the violet. Its trailing stems are covered with leaves which are almost round and divide into flower-bearing twigs. Each flower is composed of five tricoloured petals coloured white or yellow, purplish, and blue, with a calyx divided into five sepals. The flower is succeeded by a coccus enclosing seeds which are sown in heat. Pansies are transplanted into borders running along terraces and are used to form the flower beds and scallops of large parterres. They require no particular cultivation and flower in spring.