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Subject: Re: The Irish - more Spanish than Celtic? Posted on: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:13:15 +0100

On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:49:52 +0100, B Vaughan wrote:

>On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:46:13 -0700, "Ken Blake"
> wrote:
>
>>B Vaughan wrote:
>>
>>> In Italian there are two words for the English "garden". "Orto" is
>>> where you grow your cabbages and "giardino" is where you keep your
>>> geraniums.
>>
>>
>>It's interesting, though, that in Rome (I don't know about elsewhere in
>>Italy) the Botanical Gardens are called the Orto Botanico, not the Giardino
>>Botanico. No vegetables there, as far as I can remember.
>
>They may have started as a medicinal herb garden, as many public
>gardens did.

Hortus Botanicus in Lain.
--

Martin

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