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Paperback A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature Book

ISBN: 0881927279

ISBN13: 9780881927276

A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature

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The author has trailed, traced, and tracked down hundreds of literary references to many of our favorite flowers.

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Rated 5 stars
plant/flower lore

Packed with a rich amount of myths, facts, history, & lore. Both scientific & mystical.If you love this sort of thing, you will not be disappointed here. So much amusing fact & fancy about each flower & plant, whether it's uses in health & cures, or said to give courage. uses in perfume, flavoring food. Legends of fairy queens, herbalists, monks, American Indians are only some of this great folk lore. the author...

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Rated 4 stars
A dipping book

A Contemplation upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature. Bobby Ward. Timber Press. 1999.In his introduction Bobby Ward, botanist and environmental scientist asserts that writers have contemplated upon flowers since the beginning of written history, and his well-researched book proves his point.This book neatly manages to balance science and art, keeping in mind both botanical accuracy and the poetic licence taken...

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Rare book that explains each flower?s role in the history

There are many books that tell gardeners the growing conditions and requirements of different flowers. However, rare is the book that explains each flower's role in the world's history and literature, as well as their medicinal uses and, the roots of each flower's botanical and common names. That is why Bobby Ward's A Contemplation Upon Flowers, which traces the history of eighty plants from the time of the Greek's to today,...

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