# gardenry
## English
### Etymology

From garden +‎ -ry.

### Noun

gardenry (plural not attested)
* The art or skill of gardening.
** 1694 June 17, James [Drummond, 4th] Earl of Perth, “Letter IX”, in William Jerdan, editor, Letters from James Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, &c., to His Sister, the Countess of Erroll [Mary Hay, 14th Countess of Erroll], and Other Members of His Family, London: […] for the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, […], published 1845, page 29:But 2 or 3 lay brothers who understood gardenry had made their garden (which is very large) one of the noblest things one could see.
** 1752, “Preface”, in [Archibald Pitcairne], The Assembly: or, Scotch Reformation. A Comedy. As It Was Acted by the Persons in the Drama. Done from the Original Manuscript Written in the Year 1692., page v:That we make him take Plantations of Gardens for Plantations of Kirks, is natural enough for a Man who underſtands nothing but Gardenry, and frequently uſes to miſtake.
** 1875, Henry James, Jr., “Darmstadt”, in Transatlantic Sketches, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], pages 368–369:The gardens have very few flowers, and the sound of the rake nowadays is seldom heard on the gravel; but there are plenty of fine trees—some really stupendous poplars, untrimmed and spreading abroad like oaks, chestnuts which would make a figure in Italy, beeches which would be called “rather good” in England; plenty of nooks and bowers and densely woven arcades, triumphs of old-fashioned gardenry; and a large dull-bosomed pond into which the unadorned castle-walls peep from above the trees.
** 1921, Bulletin of the Garden Club of America, page 13:The Gentle Art of Gardenry / This has been a year to discourage the most eager gardener; a mild, soft winter breaking into an early spring, cold and snow in May and drought and heat all through the summer.
** 2011, Nigel Pennick, Witchcraft & Secret Societies of Rural England: The Magic of Toadmen, Plough Witches, Mummers, and Bonesmen, Destiny Books, published 2019, →ISBN:In 1873, John Hamilton, Master of the Glasgow Olive Lodge, defined its spiritual purpose: “Gardenery may be defined as the art of disposing the earth in such a manner as to produce whatever vegetables and fruits we desire, in large quantities and the greatest perfection of which their natures are capable. […]” […] The secret of gardenry was revealed only to Adam, not Eve, as in this questioning of the postulant: “What did you come here upon?” “My mother, Earth.” “What are you?” “A man.” “How do you know yourself to be a man?” “By having that revealed to me which was never revealed to woman.” The candidate is then shown the emblems of Free Gardenry; the square, the compass, and the grafting knife, “the simplest tool of gardening,” and the initiate is exhorted to “prune the vices and propagate the virtues by cuttings.”
** 2019, Cometan, The Omnidoxy, Astronist Institution, page 1804:Rand, in Astronist Architecture, as part of gardenry, is any border, or margin that separates a pathway from a lawn, or flowerbed, especially one that features ornamental designs.
* An area that is cultivated into gardens.
** 1884 September, Consular Reports on Commerce, Manufactures, Etc., number 45, page 122:Gardenry was much extended and improved, and great attention was paid to the training of young gardeners in cultivating market plants, flowers, trees, and in making ornamental beds and gardens.
** 1886, Notes on the Plan of Franklin Park and Related Matters, […] the Department, page 33:There is no better example of a very small public ground than one in Paris, where a beautiful church tower, decorated by centuries of superficial decay and mossy incrustations, has been taken as the centre of the work, the body of the church being removed and its place occupied by seats and gardenry.
** 1996, Tracy Hickman, Requiem of Stars, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 95:He smelled the flowers of the Gardenry and their scent was Ornth blessed.