Garden history
Subtitle: garden plants, species, forms and varieties from Pompeii to 1800 : symposium held at the European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello, June, 1991
By: edited by Dagfinn Moe, James H. Dickson and Per Magnus Jørgensen
Series: PACT -- 42 (1994); PACT (European Study Group on Physical, Chemical, and Mathematical Techniques Applied to Archaeology) -- 42
Publisher: Council of Europe, Division of Scientific Cooperation; PACT Belgium
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Strasbourg; Rixensart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Gardens; History; Congresses; Cultivated Plants; Plant remains (Archaeology)
Notes: Language note: English; 1 paper in French, with 1 summary in Italian.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The gardens of Pompeii / A. Ciarallo; title: Archaeological evidence for plants in ancient Vesuvian gardens / W.F. Jashemski; title: Evidence of food plants of ancient Pompeii and other Vesuvian sites / F.G. Meyer; title: Archaeopalynological thoughts on Vicia faba type pollen from ancient Mendes (Tel El Roba area, Egypt) / S. Ayyad and K. Krzywinski; title: The Greek herbal of Dioscurides illustrated by a Byzantine A.D. 512 / D. Moe; title: The plants used in a Viking Age garden A.D. 800-1050 / M. Eggen; title: Macroscopic fossils of garden plants from British Roman and Medieval deposits / C. Dickson; title: Baldassare Peruzzi and the garden design of the Renaissance / A. Tagliolini; title: Researches on the induced modifications in the vegetation of historical gardens / P. Bastioni ... [et al.]; title: Plants and gardens in the 16th century / M. Szafranska; title: The dried plant collection made by the Scottish student John Snodgrass at Leiden in 1678 / J.H. Dickson; title: Useful plants in Clusius' garden (1594) / L.T.S. Fat; title: The oldest Danish book abouit gardening / J. Abel; title: Centaurea cyanus in urban cultural layers in southern Finland / I. Vuorela; title: Vegetables and befetable garden in north-west Europe / A.C. Zeven; title: Damsgard Garden, the plants used in a restored and reconstructed Baroque garden from 1780 / P.M. Jorgensen and D. Moe; title: The history of plant cultivation in the botanic garden of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Poland) in the years 1783-1800 / A. Zemanek; title: Living garden plants used in research to ancient gardens as demonstrated by box (Buxus sempervirens) and elm (Ulmus glabra) / D. Moe; title: Purposes and manners of representation of plants in the European art of the 13th-17th century / E. Pacini; title: La statue de Venus dans le vieux jardin / E. Leonardy.