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BOSQUETS

Volume 5 · 81 words · 1842 Edition

in Gardening, groves so called, from boschetto, an Italian word which signifies a little wood. They are compartments in gardens formed by branches of trees disposed either regularly in rows, or wildly and irregularly, according to the fancy of the owner. A bosquet is either a plot of ground inclosed with palisades of horn-beam, the middle filled with tall trees, the tops of which form an unbranched covering; or it consists only of high trees, as horse-chestnut, elm, and the like.