Lecture 38
Tropical Landscape Ornamentals

Tree Representations, Assyria

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Primitive drawing (left) - Date palm (right)

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"Symbolic" palm

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Oasis, Sinai

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Dates, Sinai peninsula

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Oasis at El Tor, Sinai peninsular

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Oasis in Sinai

Ancient Egyptian Garden Scenes

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Harvesting pomegranates in formal planting interspersed with ornamental columns next to a T-shaped pool.

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Four workers transporting trees.

Ancient Egyptian Garden Scenes

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Tree with earth raised around the roots.

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Randomly-placed trees within a square enclosure surrounding square pool. Carving from the tomb of Akhnaton (18th dynasty).

Garden Plan for a Wealthy Egyptian Estate

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Note two types of palms: single trunk = date palm, bifurcated trunk = doum palm.

Formal Egyptian garden (Thebes ca. 1450 BCE)

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The lotus pool, on which statue of the vizier Rekhmire is being towed by boat, faces a pavilion or summerhouse. Around the pool grow doum palms, date palms, acacias, and other trees and shrubs.

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A late 19th century impression (1883) of a bird's eye view of a high official's garden.

Ancient Egyptian Garden Scenes (Thebes, ca. 1300 BCE)

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Garden planted with fig, olive trees and flowering plants containing a pavilion
with steps leading down to the water, being irrigated by a row of shadufs.

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Present day garden at Neve Firan, Sinai showing irrigation channels.

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon. A 19th century conception.

Bambouseraie de Prafrance, Anduze, France

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Reconstructed house on stilts

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Allée d'entrée

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Elephant pod, Hawaii

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Elephant pod

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Bogor Botanical gardens, Java, Indonesia

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Trinidad Botanical gardens

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Vista at Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Miami, Florida

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Cannonball Tree

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Cannonball Tree

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Date, Sinai

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Desert Inn, Beersheba, Israel

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Federal station at Mayaguez, Royal Palm, Puerto Rico

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Travelers Palm, Ecuador

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Travelers Palm, Ecuador

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Norfolk Pine Plantation

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Palms, Belize

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Chinese Banyan, Ficus retuse

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Bamboo

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Bamboo

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Cycad cone, Hawaii

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Ipe in Bloom

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Flamboyant Vicosa

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Ylang-ylang, Costa Rica

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Bougainvillea, Hawaii

Papyrus and lotus symbols of upper and lower Egypt

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Hunting scene showing lotus and papyrus.

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Offering of lotus and papyrus to Isis.

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Bougainvillea, Hawaii

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Croton, Puerto Rico

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Interiorscape

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Puerto Rico, Philodendron

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Inner Garden, American Consulate Brasilia

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Double Poinsettia

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Poinsettia

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Parking garage, Brazil

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