The lunch menu offers something called jardiniere of seasonal vegetables.

It began with an assiette jardiniere - 12 little dishes, each no more than a bite, of perfect vegetables.

After the photographer left, the newsman sat at the desk and opened the pack of letters he had filched from the jardiniere.

One fascinating piece is a curved metal jardiniere with terra-cotta containers that fit into the top, side by side.

He managed to send the Jardiniere's cargo of natural history specimens to the island of Trinidad.

Cellen, the jardiniere, spoke lovingly about landscaping.

Its French-oriented restaurant La Jardiniere has a terrace.

"It is a blue porcelain jardiniere of uncertain function, decorated with a border of white and gold marguerites.

Elizabethan jardiniere.

Gothic jardiniere.

Italian jardiniere.

Scaled jardiniere.

Victorian jardiniere.

I've found some old letters and notebooks stuffed away in a dusty jardiniere," Joy told Basil Penniman.

"It's impossible to pair with wines," said Doug Washington, a managing partner and a wine director at Jardiniere in San Francisco.

He told her about the love letters he'd found in the jardiniere, the uncanny brilliance of Dan's exhibition pottery, and the trapdoor in the clay room.

The cat also showed interest in a large ceramic jardiniere containing papers and small note- books and a packet of dusty envelopes tied with faded ribbon.

'La Belle Jardiniere.'

Gertrude Jekyll's own design of a terra-cotta jardiniere with scroll handles fetched over $5,000 at Sotheby's Sussex last spring.

Diners at Jardiniere can begin with Traci Des Jardin's parfait of roasted beets and creamy goat cheese.

Printed lace shades at the Phippses', Diane Von Furstenberg's fat satin couch, the sink sunk in a jardiniere.

To Traci des Jardins, the chef at Jardiniere in San Francisco, the flavors of the seed varieties "are not as intense and they're more watery."

She suddenly had an image of an antique jardiniere with flowers and cupids painted in reserves on its sides and embellished with gold against a distinctively pink background.

I was impressed with Jardiniere, bowled over by the transformation of the old Trader Vic's into Le Colonial, stunned by the decor at Loongbar.

Traci des Jardins, who worked at Montrachet, is one of those who moved to San Francisco, where she is now an acclaimed chef at her own restaurant, Jardiniere.