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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 459 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a
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building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in
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Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)
  , the ground enclosed and cultivated for the growth of fruit, flowers or vegetables (see HORTICULTURE) . The word is also used for grounds laid out ornamentally, used as places of public entertainment . Such were the famous
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Ranelagh and
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Vauxhall Gardens in
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London; it is similarly used in zoological gardens, and as a name in towns for squares, terraces or streets . From the fact that Epicurus (q.v.) taught in the gardens' at Athens, the disciples of his school of philosophy were known as of 6,716 r&ov KiprWV (so Diog . Laertius x. to) ; and
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Cicero (De finibus v . 1 . 3, and elsewhere) speaks of the Horti Epicuri . Thus as the " Academy " refers to the Platonic and the " Porch " (vroa) to the Stoic school, so the " Garden " is the name given to the Epicurean school of philosophy .
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Apollodorus was known as iorrorbpavvos, the tyrant of the garden .

End of Article: GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)
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