Argentina: Discovery and settlement: …another expedition from Spain under Diego García, commander of a ship from the Solís expedition. Both Cabot and García had planned to sail for the Moluccas but altered their courses, influenced by excited tales about an “enchanted City of the Caesars” (a variant of the Eldorado legend), which later incited…

Jerry Garcia was the singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead, a San Francisco-based group that emerged from the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic-drug-and-music scene in the mid-1960s. He personified the hippie counterculture for three decades as the mellow leader of the band. Known

Chicago: Renewal: …and faced his nearest challenger, Jesús (“Chuy”) García, a longtime public servant, in the city’s first-ever mayoral runoff election. Emanuel was victorious, however, in the April contest. Emanuel’s second term was dominated by controversy surrounding the shooting of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager killed by a Chicago police officer. Video…

Luis Garcia was a Spanish right winger (midfielder) who gained fame in the sport of football (soccer) for his versatility with his body—he could use both feet equally in play and had good aerial skills. Although he was known around the world, he was especially popular in Spain and England. Garcia

Manuel García was the most renowned European teacher of singing in the 19th century. The son of the celebrated tenor Manuel del Popolo Vicente García, he began a singing career in 1825 in New York City as Figaro in his father’s company’s production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. In 1825 in

Manuel del Popolo García was a Spanish tenor and composer, one of the finest singers of his time. At age 17 García made his stage debut at Cádiz, Spain, in an operetta that included songs he had composed. In 1800 the first of his more than 90 operas, El preso, was produced in Madrid. García was

Manuel del Popolo García was a Spanish tenor and composer, one of the finest singers of his time. At age 17 García made his stage debut at Cádiz, Spain, in an operetta that included songs he had composed. In 1800 the first of his more than 90 operas, El preso, was produced in Madrid. García was

One-Eyed Jacks: …a local woman, Maria (Katy Jurado), and he prides himself on being a good stepfather to her daughter, Louisa (Pina Pellicer). Although initially wary of Rio’s motives, Dad accepts his former partner’s lies when he says that he bears Dad no malice. Rio subsequently seduces Louisa, outraging Dad. After…

Maria Malibran was a Spanish mezzo-soprano of exceptional vocal range, power, and agility. María and her mezzo-soprano sister Pauline Viardot were first instructed by their father, the tenor Manuel García, and at five years of age María sang a child’s part in Ferdinando Paer’s Agnese in Naples. She

Pauline Viardot was a French mezzo-soprano, best known for her highly dramatic operatic roles. As a child Viardot studied piano with Franz Liszt, composition with Anton Reicha, and voice with her mother. She was the sister of Maria Malibran, the celebrated soprano, and of the great voice teacher

LIV Golf League: First LIV event, players defect from PGA Tour: …Johnson, and 2017 Masters champion Sergio García. Other PGA Tour winners to participate included Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood. Shortly after Johnson hit the first tee shot in LIV history, Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, sent out a memo announcing that all players involved were suspended from the PGA…

Mia Hamm: …her husband, former baseball player Nomar Garciaparra, and numerous others—of the Los Angeles Football Club of Major League Soccer; the team began play in 2018.

Garcilaso de la Vega was the first major poet in the Golden Age of Spanish literature (c. 1500–1650). Garcilaso was born between 1498 and 1503 into an aristocratic family that had been prominent in Spanish letters and politics for several centuries. Entering court life at an early age, he

Garcilaso de la Vega was one of the great Spanish chroniclers of the 16th century, noted as the author of distinguished works on the history of the Indians in South America and the expeditions of the Spanish conquistadors. Garcilaso was the illegitimate son of a Spanish conquistador, Sebastian

Garcinia, genus in the family Clusiaceae with about 250 species of trees and shrubs found throughout the tropics but especially in the Paleotropics. Given the extreme diversity of floral structure across the genus, its taxonomy is contentious. A number of species are important in local medicine,

Garcinia: xanthochymus and G. cowa. A number of species are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and at least two, G. cadelliana and G. tanzaniensis, are critically endangered.

Clusiaceae, the garcinia family (order Malpighiales), comprising about 14 genera and some 800 species of tropical trees and shrubs. Several are important for their fruits, resins, or timbers, and a number of species are cultivated as ornamentals. Members of the Clusiaceae family usually have

Garcinia: Bacupari (G. gardneriana) is native to South America and produces an edible aril. Garlic fruit, or bitter garcinia (G. spicata), is planted as an ornamental in tropical salt-spray oceanfront areas. Orange dyes (gamboge) are extracted from the bark of G. xanthochymus and G. cowa. A…

Clusiaceae: Waika plum, or lemon drop mangosteen (G. intermedia), native to Central America, has a small, oval, yellow fruit. There are about 250 species in the tropics, especially common in Indo-Malesia.

Garcinia: Imbe, or African mangosteen (G. livingstonei), has stiff leaves and small, thick-skinned, orange fruits with a juicy, acid, fragrant pulp. Rata, or yellow mangosteen (G. tinctorea), produces a peach-sized yellow fruit with a pointed end and acid-flavoured buttery yellow flesh. Bacupari (G. gardneriana) is native…

mangosteen, (Garcinia mangostana), handsome tropical tree (family Clusiaceae) native to Southeast Asia and cultivated for its tart-sweet fruit. The mangosteen fruit is highly valued for its juicy, delicate texture and slightly astringent flavour and is commonly eaten fresh, canned, or dried. The

Garcinia: Garlic fruit, or bitter garcinia (G. spicata), is planted as an ornamental in tropical salt-spray oceanfront areas. Orange dyes (gamboge) are extracted from the bark of G. xanthochymus and G. cowa. A number of species are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of

Garcinia: Rata, or yellow mangosteen (G. tinctorea), produces a peach-sized yellow fruit with a pointed end and acid-flavoured buttery yellow flesh. Bacupari (G. gardneriana) is native to South America and produces an edible aril. Garlic fruit, or bitter garcinia (G. spicata), is planted as an ornamental…

Garcinia: …extracted from the bark of G. xanthochymus and G. cowa. A number of species are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and at least two, G. cadelliana and G. tanzaniensis, are critically endangered.

French literature: Secular drama: Le Garçon et l’aveugle (“The Boy and the Blind Man”), a simple tale of trickster tricked, could have been played by a jongleur and his boy and ranks for some scholars as the first farce. At the end of the century, the Arras poet Adam…

Languedoc-Roussillon: …the southern départements of Lozère, Gard, Hérault, Aude, and Pyrénées-Orientales and was roughly coextensive with the former province of Languedoc. In 2016 the Languedoc-Roussillon région was joined with the région of Midi-Pyrénées to form the new administrative entity of Occitanie.

Pont du Gard, giant bridge-aqueduct, a notable ancient Roman engineering work constructed about 19 bce to carry water to the city of Nîmes over the Gard River in southern France. Augustus Caesar’s son-in-law and aide, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, is credited with its conception. It is listed as a

Iron Guard, Romanian fascist organization that constituted a major social and political force between 1930 and 1941. In 1927 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu founded the Legion of the Archangel Michael, which later became known as the Legion or Legionary Movement; it was committed to the “Christian and

Ireland: Security of Ireland: The Guardians of the Peace (An Garda Síochána), established in 1922, is a nationwide force headed by a commissioner who is responsible to the minister for justice. A few hundred members of the force are assigned to detective duties; they are usually plainclothes officers and, when…

Lake Garda, the largest (area 143 square miles [370 square km]) of the Italian lakes, bordering Lombardy (southwest and west), Veneto (east and southeast), and Trentino-Alto Adige (north). It is surpassed in area in the Alpine region only by Lakes Geneva and Constance. Lying at an elevation of 213

Lake Garda, the largest (area 143 square miles [370 square km]) of the Italian lakes, bordering Lombardy (southwest and west), Veneto (east and southeast), and Trentino-Alto Adige (north). It is surpassed in area in the Alpine region only by Lakes Geneva and Constance. Lying at an elevation of 213

Húsavík: …named because a Swedish seafarer, Gardar, blown off course, built a house and wintered there in 864. In the 1880s one of Iceland’s first cooperatives was organized there. Húsavík is a fishing port and serves as a market centre for a dairy-farming and sheep-raising area. Pop. (2006 est.) 2,296.

Gardasil, trade name of human papillomavirus (HPV) quadrivalent (types 6, 11, 16, and 18) vaccine, recombinant, the first HPV vaccine used primarily to prevent cervical cancer in women. Developed by Scottish-born Australian immunologist Ian Frazer, the vaccine works against four types of HPV—6, 11,

Carlos Gardel was an Argentine singer and actor, celebrated throughout Latin America for his espousal of tango music. Some uncertainty exists concerning Gardel’s early life. While most sources indicate that he was born in France, Gardel occasionally cited Tacuarembó, Uruguay, as his birthplace.

ballet: The age of Gardel: Until the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the Paris Opéra remained closely linked to the court. The revolution put an end to such support. The turn of the 19th century was a time of confusion for the arts, during which ballet gained…

garden, Plot of ground where herbs, fruits, flowers, vegetables, or trees are cultivated. The earliest surviving detailed garden plan is Egyptian and dates from about 1400 bc; it shows tree-lined avenues and rectangular ponds. Mesopotamian gardens were places where shade and cool water could be

garden and landscape design, the development and decorative planting of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other types of areas. Garden and landscape design is used to enhance the settings for buildings and public areas and in recreational areas and parks. It is one of the decorative arts and is

rock cress: Wall rock cress, or garden arabis (Arabis caucasica), is a perennial from southeastern Europe. It reaches 30 cm (1 foot) in height and bears fragrant white flowers in early spring; it has double, pink, dwarf, and variegated varieties. Alpine rock cress (A. alpina) also produces…

asparagus: Garden asparagus: Garden asparagus, the most economically important species of the genus, is cultivated in most temperate and subtropical parts of the world. As a vegetable, it has been prized by epicures since Roman times. It is most commonly served cooked, either hot or in…

Western painting: Impressionism: …from 1866 onward, notably the Terrace (1866), in which he chose a subject that allowed use of a full palette of primary color. The decisive development took place in 1869, when Monet and Renoir painted together at the resort of La Grenouillère on the Seine River. The resulting pictures suggest…

Impatiens: The garden balsam (Impatiens balsamina) is native to the tropics of Asia but has long been cultivated in temperate regions of the world. The plant is an annual that grows about 75 cm (30 inches) in height and has many horticultural forms with flowers of almost…

beet, (Beta vulgaris), one of the four cultivated forms of the plant Beta vulgaris of the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae), grown for its edible leaves and taproot. Beetroots are frequently roasted or boiled and served as a side dish. They are also commonly canned, either whole or cut up, and often

burnet: …garden, or salad, burnet (Sanguisorba minor) and the great burnet (S. officinalis)—are eaten in salads or used as an ingredient in fines herbes, a mixture of herbs commonly used in French cuisine. The dried leaves are also used to make tea.

carnation: …are two general groups, the border, or garden, carnations and the perpetual flowering carnations. Border carnations include a range of varieties and hybrids, 30 to 75 cm (1 to 2.5 feet) tall; the flowers, in a wide range of colours, are usually less than 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter…

garden carpet, floor covering designed as a Persian garden seen from directly above. The design consists of a central watercourse, with tributary canals of various sizes, interrupted by islands or by ponds containing waterfowl and fishes, lined by avenues of stylized small trees and shrubs that

symphylan: The so-called garden centipede (Scutigerella immaculata) of North America, Europe, and Hawaii damages beets, celery, lettuce, and other crops. Scolopendrella is common in North America.

Sir Ebenezer Howard: In the 1880s Howard wrote To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform. Not published until 1898, this work was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow. In this book he proposed the founding of “garden cities,” each a self-sufficient entity—not a dormitory suburb—of 30,000 population, and each ringed by…

Singapore, city, capital of the Republic of Singapore. It occupies the southern part of Singapore Island. Its strategic position on the strait between the Indian Ocean and South China Sea, complemented by its deepwater harbour, has made it the largest port in Southeast Asia and one of the world’s

garden city, the ideal of a planned residential community, as devised by the English town planner Ebenezer Howard (q.v.) and promoted by him in Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform (1898). Howard’s plan for garden cities was a response to the need for improvement in the quality of urban life,

Garden City, city, seat (1883) of Finney county, southwestern Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Arkansas River. Founded in 1878, it acquired its name through the suggestion of a visitor who admired a local flower garden. The city is the centre of an irrigated agricultural area of the Arkansas River

Garden City, residential village, town (township) of Hempstead, Nassau county, New York, U.S. It is located on western Long Island. One of the nation’s first planned communities, it was the aspiration of textile merchant Alexander Turney Stewart, who bought a 7,000-acre (2,800-hectare) tract of

list of birth month flowers: October: Cosmos (usually Cosmos bipinnatus) are popular garden flowers with airy blooms in pinks and whites. Other varieties are a bit more moody and come in fall colors such as burgundy and orange. Musky marigolds (namely Tagetes erecta) are perfect for harvest time and have long been associated…

cress: Common garden cress, or peppergrass (Lepidium sativum), a fast-growing, often weedy native of western Asia, is also widely grown, especially in its curl-leaved form, and the seedlings are used as a garnish. Cress seedlings, used in sandwiches and salads, usually come from white mustard (Sinapis alba).…

ribes: Major species: …and common, or garden or red, currant (R. rubrum).

dahlia: Physical description: …the common garden dahlia (D. pinnata) have shortened ray flowers.

Suddenly Last Summer, drama in one act by Tennessee Williams, published in 1958. It concerns lobotomy, pederasty, and cannibalism. It is the melodramatic yet horrific story of Sebastian Venable, a self-involved sadistic gay man with an overprotective mother. Suddenly Last Summer was performed in

plant bug: The garden fleahopper (Halticus bractatus) is a small, shiny black jumping bug about 2 mm long. The forewings of this short-winged leaf bug lack a membrane and resemble the hard forewings of a beetle. The fleahopper sucks the juices from garden plants. There are usually five…

folly, (from French folie, “foolishness”), also called Eyecatcher, in architecture, a costly, generally nonfunctional building that was erected to enhance a natural landscape. Follies first gained popularity in England, and they were particularly in vogue during the 18th and early 19th centuries,

Garden Grove, city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. Adjacent to the cities of Santa Ana (southeast) and Anaheim (northeast), Garden Grove is 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Los Angeles. The area was explored by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769 and was part of Rancho Los Nietos, a Spanish land grant

Dipsacales: Valeriana clade: Garden valerian, also called garden heliotrope (Valeriana officinalisj), is a perennial herb prized for its spicy fragrant flowers; it is native in Europe and western Asia. Its dried rhizome yields valerian, a natural sedative. Spikenard (Nardostachys grandiflora) is a perennial herb of the Himalayas that…

heliotrope: …members of the genus is garden heliotrope (H. arborescens), a shrubby perennial up to 2 metres (over 6 feet) tall but usually smaller. It has fragrant, purple to white, flat-clustered, five-lobed flowers in coiled sprays, similar to forget-me-nots.

Garden Island, Australian island in the Indian Ocean, just off the southwest coast of Western Australia, 30 mi (48 km) southwest of Perth. With Green and Penguin islands, it shelters Cockburn Sound (east) and the approaches to the ports of Fremantle, Kwinana, and Rockingham. Measuring 6 mi by 1 mi,

Kauai, volcanic island, Kauai county, Hawaii, U.S. It lies 72 miles (116 km) northwest of Oahu island across the Kauai Channel. The northernmost and geologically the oldest of the major Hawaiian islands, it is also the most verdant and one of the most scenic and is known as the Garden Isle; the

Dry Tortugas: A lighthouse was constructed on Garden Key in 1825, and another was built on the largest key, Loggerhead, in 1856. Fort Jefferson is the largest all-masonry fortification in the Americas. It remained in Union hands during the American Civil War and served as a prison until 1873. Among the prisoners…

mignonette: Major species: The popular garden mignonette (Reseda odorata) assumes the form of a low dense mass of soft green foliage studded freely with the racemes of flowers. This species is widely grown for its flowers’ delicate musky fragrance and for an essential oil that is used in perfumery.

Richard Boleslavsky: The Garden of Allah (1936) was a lavish picture, in Technicolor, with Charles Boyer as a monk fleeing his vocation who falls in love with a woman (Marlene Dietrich) wandering the Algerian desert on a voyage of self-discovery. Boleslavsky’s final film was The Last of…

Sir Thomas Browne: …lately found in Norfolk, and The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall Lozenge, or Net-Work Plantations of the Ancients. Around the theme of the urns he wove a tissue of solemn reflections on death and the transience of human fame in his most luxuriant style; in The Garden, in which…

The Garden of Earthly Delights, painting by Hiëronymus Bosch, completed c. 1490–1500, that depicts the earthly paradise with the creation of woman, the first temptation, and the Fall. It is representative of Bosch at his mature best. The Garden of Earthly Delights is a masterwork that marks a

Carlos Saura: …jardin de las delicias (1970; The Garden of Delights) was delayed, then mutilated by Spanish censors. Ana y los lobos (1972; Anna and the Wolves) was also delayed by the censors; in it a governess in a crumbling mansion is beset by brothers who symbolize, according to Saura, “the three…

American literature: New fictional modes: In her early work, especially A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) and them (1969), Joyce Carol Oates worked naturalistically with violent urban materials, such as the Detroit riots. Incredibly prolific, she later experimented with Surrealism in Wonderland (1971) and Gothic fantasy in Bellefleur

The Garden of Earthly Delights, painting by Hiëronymus Bosch, completed c. 1490–1500, that depicts the earthly paradise with the creation of woman, the first temptation, and the Fall. It is representative of Bosch at his mature best. The Garden of Earthly Delights is a masterwork that marks a

Hubert Ogunde: Ogunde’s first folk opera, The Garden of Eden and the Throne of God, was performed with success in 1944 while he was still a member of the Nigerian Police Force. It was produced under the patronage of an African Protestant sect, and it mixed biblical themes with the traditions…

houseplant: Historical background: …the 17th century, when, in The Garden of Eden (1652), Sir Hugh Platt, an English agricultural authority, wrote of the possibility of cultivating plants indoors. Shortly thereafter, glasshouses (greenhouses) and conservatories, which had been used during Roman times to force plants to flower, were built in England and elsewhere to…

Andy Goldsworthy: Permanent artworks: For Garden of Stones (2003)—a Holocaust memorial for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City—Goldsworthy planted dwarf oak tree saplings in 18 boulders. He also created a major installation called Roof (2004–05) for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which consists of…

Ki Hadjar Dewantoro: …was the founder of the Taman Siswa (literally “Garden of Students”) school system, an influential and widespread network of schools that encouraged modernization but also promoted indigenous Indonesian culture.

Giorgio Bassani: …Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1962; The Garden of the Finzi-Continis; film 1971). The narrator of this work contrasts his own middle-class Jewish family with the aristocratic, decadent Finzi-Continis, also Jewish, whose sheltered lives end in annihilation by the Nazis.

Vittorio De Sica: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970; The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), winner of an Oscar for best foreign film, was an extremely successful adaptation of Giorgio Bassani’s classicnovel about the destruction of the Jews in the city of Ferrara during the Holocaust. Una breve vacanza (1973;…

Colorado Springs: The Garden of the Gods, a 1,350-acre (546-hectare) natural park with red sandstone monoliths, now a national landmark, is one of many scenic attractions in the area. Of cultural and historical interest are the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the…

Chinese architecture: The Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12): …while the small and delicate Garden of the Master of Nets (Wangshi Yuan), also in Suzhou, provides knowledgeable viewers with a remarkable series of sophisticated visual surprises, typically only apparent on a third or fourth visit to the site.

Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae: Garden orach (A. hortensis) was at one time used as a cure for gout. Another interesting ornamental genus is Bassia, which includes summer cypress (B. scoparia) and burning bush (B. scoparia trichophylla); the leaves of the latter turn a beautiful red in autumn.

pansy: Major species: The garden pansy (Viola ×wittrockiana) is a hybrid, one of whose parents is V. tricolor, which is a weed of European grainfields, the other parents being V. lutea and V. altaica. The tufted pansy, or horned viola (V. cornuta), is the parent of numerous forms of…

Rick Nelson: His final hit, “Garden Party” (1972), described Nelson’s frustration with the hostile reaction of the audience at an “oldies” concert. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, two years after his death in a plane crash.

Václav Havel: …solo play, Zahradní slavnost (1963; The Garden Party), typified his work in its absurdist, satirical examination of bureaucratic routines and their dehumanizing effects. In his best-known play, Vyrozumění (1965; The Memorandum), an incomprehensible artificial language is imposed on a large bureaucratic enterprise, causing the breakdown of human relationships and their…

The Garden Party, short story by Katherine Mansfield, published as the title story in The Garden Party, and Other Stories (1922). The story centres on Laura Sheridan’s response to the accidental death of a neighbourhood workman; Laura suggests that, out of respect for the man’s family, Laura’s

pea, (Pisum sativum), herbaceous annual plant in the family Fabaceae, grown virtually worldwide for its edible seeds. Peas can be bought fresh, canned, or frozen, and dried peas are commonly used in soups. Some varieties, including sugar peas and snow peas, produce pods that are edible and are

Green Bay: …from Lake Michigan by the Garden Peninsula (northeast) and Door Peninsula (southeast). The Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal cuts across the Door Peninsula to provide a short route to the ports of Green Bay and Marinette, Wisconsin, and Menominee, Michigan. Another important port is Escanaba, Michigan, located on…

pepper, (genus Capsicum), genus of more than 30 species of flowering plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae), several of which are extensively cultivated for their edible, often pungent fruits. The genus comprises all the varied forms of fleshy-fruited peppers, including the mild bell peppers

Caryophyllaceae: Major genera and species: …cottage, or grass, pink (D. plumarius). See also baby’s breath; campion; chickweed.

Moscow: The inner city: …part of Moscow, within the Garden Ring, are buildings representative of every period of Moscow’s development from the 15th century to the present day. Scattered through the inner city are several fine examples of 17th-century church architecture, notably the Church of All Saints of Kulishki, built in the 1670s and…

arugula, (subspecies Eruca vesicaria sativa), annual herb of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), grown for its pungent edible leaves. Native to the Mediterranean, arugula is a common salad vegetable in many parts of southern Europe and has grown in popularity around the world for its peppery, nutty

Garden Route National Park, national park in Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces, South Africa. The park, established in 2009, covers more than 450 square miles (1,200 square km) of land and comprises the former Wilderness and Tsitsikamma national parks as well as additional nearby areas. It

sage, (Salvia officinalis), aromatic herb of the mint family (Lamiaceae) cultivated for its pungent edible leaves. Sage is native to the Mediterranean region and is used fresh or dried as a flavoring in many foods, particularly in stuffings for poultry and pork and in sausages. Some varieties are

scabious: Major species: Pincushion flower, also called sweet scabious, mourning bride, or garden scabious (Scabiosa atropurpurea), a southern European annual with deeply cut basal leaves and feathery stem leaves, produces fragrant 5-cm (2-inch) flower heads in white, rose, crimson, blue, or deep mahogany purple. It is about 1…

metalwork: Renaissance to modern: …with the introduction of lead garden sculpture—figures, vases, and urns—in the late 17th century. An example of that work is a pair of garden vases 15 feet high at Schloss Schleissheim in Bavaria. The silvery gray color of such sculpture and its resistance to the weather made it suitable for…

garter snake, (genus Thamnophis), any of about 35 species of nonvenomous North American snakes having a striped pattern suggesting a garter: typically, one or three longitudinal yellow to red stripes, between which are checkered blotches. Forms in which the stripes are obscure or lacking are often

sorrel: Other common species are garden sorrel (R. acetosa), French sorrel (R. scutatus), and red-veined sorrel (R. sanguineus), all of which are hardy perennials distributed throughout Europe and Asia. Garden sorrel, like sheep sorrel, has become naturalized in North America.

garden spider, (Araneus diadematus), a member of the orb weaver family Araneidae (order Araneida) characterized by white marks arranged in the form of a cross on the abdomen. A fairly common species, the garden spider occurs throughout the Northern Hemisphere and is often found in grassy areas and

Danny DeVito: Career: … (1999), and the coming-of-age film Garden State (2004).

New Jersey, constituent state of the United States of America. One of the original 13 states, it is bounded by New York to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, and Delaware and Pennsylvania to the west. The state was named for the island of Jersey in the English

Secretariat: Breeding and early years: …Champagne Stakes, Laurel Futurity, and Garden State Stakes. The winner of those races, or at least the majority of them, is considered to have won the “title” of best two-year-old. Secretariat had wins in the first two of the five races, and he consequently approached the Champagne Stakes at Belmont…