Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin,
jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G.
garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]
1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of
herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
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2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
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I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak.
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Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden
walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
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Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).
Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering
gardens.
Garden glass.
(a) A bell glass for covering plants.
(b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal,
to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an
ornament in gardens in Germany.
Garden house
(a) A summer house. --Beau. & Fl.
(b) A privy. [Southern U.S.]
Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds,
fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
Garden mold or Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is
fit for a garden. --Mortimer.
Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick
walls. --Knight.
Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc.,
to protect them from birds.
Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the
grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot, a watering pot.
Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges,
pruning, etc.
Garden spider, (Zool.), the diadem spider (Epeira
diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and America.
It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and
Spider web.
Garden stand, a stand for flower pots.
Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]
Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling
them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc.
Hanging garden. See under Hanging.
Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated
for household use.
Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are
cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
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Balsam \Bal"sam\ (b[add]l"sam), n. [L. balsamum the balsam tree
or its resin, Gr. ba`lsamon. See Balm, n.]
1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or
volatile oil.
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Note: The balsams are aromatic resinous substances, flowing
spontaneously or by incision from certain plants. A
great variety of substances pass under this name, but
the term is now usually restricted to resins which, in
addition to a volatile oil, contain benzoic and
cinnamic acid. Among the true balsams are the balm of
Gilead, and the balsams of copaiba, Peru, and Tolu.
There are also many pharmaceutical preparations and
resinous substances, possessed of a balsamic smell, to
which the name balsam has been given.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) A species of tree (Abies balsamea).
(b) An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with
beautiful flowers; balsamine.
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3. Anything that heals, soothes, or restores.
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Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood?
--Tennyson.
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Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant (Momordica
balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or
orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a
walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and
poultices.
Balsam fir (Bot.), the American coniferous tree, Abies
balsamea, from which the useful Canada balsam is derived.
Balsam of copaiba. See Copaiba.
Balsam of Mecca, balm of Gilead.
Balsam of Peru, a reddish brown, syrupy balsam, obtained
from a Central American tree (Myroxylon Pereir[ae] and
used as a stomachic and expectorant, and in the treatment
of ulcers, etc. It was long supposed to be a product of
Peru.
Balsam of Tolu, a reddish or yellowish brown semisolid or
solid balsam, obtained from a South American tree
(Myroxylon toluiferum). It is highly fragrant, and is
used as a stomachic and expectorant.
Balsam tree, any tree from which balsam is obtained, esp.
the Abies balsamea.
Canada balsam, Balsam of fir, Canada turpentine, a
yellowish, viscid liquid, which, by time and exposure,
becomes a transparent solid mass. It is obtained from the
balm of Gilead (or balsam) fir (Abies balsamea) by
breaking the vesicles upon the trunk and branches. See
Balm.
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