17:59 May 26, 2008 |
Dutch to English translations [PRO] Science - Botany / Soorten | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Kate Hudson (X) Netherlands Local time: 18:49 | ||||||
Grading comment
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Summary of answers provided | ||||
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4 +1 | exotics |
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3 +1 | onvertaald / introduced (escaped) non-native plants |
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4 | heritage vegetation |
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3 -1 | naturalized cultivar |
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Discussion entries: 2 | |
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exotics Explanation: Normally such plants would be called exotics in England http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5066549/quot-Hothous... Dixon's claims seem particularly applicable to a reading of the nineteenth-century garden, since the period contained such dramatic shifts in the social and cultural landscape, and since gardens demonstrated technological and industrial innovation at the same time as they evoked a nostalgic desire for an English past. Of the Victorian garden, Joan Morgan and Alison Richards have claimed that "environments were contrived which imitated as closely as possible those of the native homeland, and Nature was permitted to enhance the effect. Exotics such as rhododendrons could be allowed to self seed in the woodland glades and narcissi and snowdrops to multiply among the wild primroses. [...] The distinctive style of Victorian gardens was, therefore, both formal and eclectic. They were to borrow promiscuously from the English past and from an exotic present" |
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35 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
40 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -1
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