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