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history of horticulture relies on much poorer database in comparison to
that of architecture and town planning. The reasons for this phenomenon
are evident: whereas architectural monuments are built of solid materials
which preserve their shape, outlook and color over the centuries, gardens
and parks are composed chiefly of vegetation – trees, shrubs, grass, flowers
which keep changing all the time. And what is more, they live and die!
That is why studies of gardens and parks from the remote past (Egypt, Assyro-Babylon,
Greece) are based mainly on descriptive texts, prints, reliefs, papyruses
and not on actual observations of these green areas. Only the architectural
set-up (the steps, terraces, caves, alleys, fountains and cascades), which
marks the constructional frame of the garden, is durable. And it was exactly
that architectural framework which made possible the preservation of some
unaltered trends in horticulture. |
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