Of Rectangles and Centuries. A History of the Use of a Garden Pattern from Romanesque Europe to Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
David Lewis
Settlers of New Orleans brought with them ideas gardens that influenced the way they shaped in colony. Although influence those has been acknowledged studies gardens, specific connections between and have not made. To illuminate some connections, this study focuses on one garden pattern — a composition long, rectangular planting beds -- is common to at least fifty European dating from ninth century. A developmental history chronicles use ninth-century Europe nineteenth-century constructed used show group which contain can be identified as distinct tradition. In past containing grouped other geometric patterns described such terms formal, French or parterre. This shows predates development formal parterre suggests through more careful it possible identify traditions also gardens.
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