Chapter ID: CBB169261382

Green Rubies from the Ganges: Eighteenth-Century Gardening as Intercultural Networking (2021)

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A network most broadly defined is a structure made from various types of interlacing material. The term is also used more meta phorically for complex patterns of communicating objects as in road systems or communication systems. Last but not least, it may describe groups of interconnected people “who exchange information, contacts, and experience for professional or social purposes,” as in the term “trade network” or “support network.”¹ All three aspects of networks come into play in the creation of gardens. Every garden is quite literally a network: Its vegetal components are physically linked or interwoven above and below ground by

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Authors & Contributors
Hickman, Clare
Christina Harrison
Schmiedel, Irina
Brixius, Dorit
Laurence Lippi
Smith, Elise Lawton
Concepts
Botany
Gardens
Horticulture
Natural history
Plants
Medicinal plants
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Early modern
17th century
16th century
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Italy
Philadelphia, PA
England
Mediterranean region
London (England)
Institutions
Paris. Jardin Royal des Plantes
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Chelsea Physic Garden
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