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pleasure garden

1. A decorative place outside, usually where plants are grown for food (vegetable garden) or ornamental purposes (flower garden).
2. in plural gardens Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
3. The grounds at the front or back of a house.
4. In slang Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

Namesakes

• The Torture Garden (novel)
• The Garden of Forking Paths
• The Garden of Earthly Delights

Gardens in literature

• The Garden of Eden
• Romance of the Rose
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's short-story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
• Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera La finta giardiniera
• John Steinbeck's short-story "The Chrysanthemums"
• Ernest Hemingway's The Gardener

See also

• Folly
• Pleasure garden
• Pastoral