Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In horticulture, the use of foliage-plants set in ribbons or stripes of contrasting shades as a border; also, a border thus formed.
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About the time when ribbon-bordering "came in," he changed his residence, and, in the garden where he had cultivated countless kinds of perennials, his son reigned in his stead.
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About the time when ribbon-bordering "came in," he changed his residence, and, in the garden where he had cultivated countless kinds of perennials, his son reigned in his stead.
Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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