num_pages: 128
description: Comprehensive archive by two of the world's foremost collectors of pictorial symbols. Their pictures, rendered from rare illustrations, extend from ancient Chinese lotus buds to a basket of flowers in a 19th-century Valentine silhouette. Includes the symbolic meaning of every known species — from absinth to zinnia. Over 200 black-and-white designs and illustrations.
language: English
title: Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, plants
titlecomplete: Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, plants
genres: History, Mythology, Reference, Nature, Plants, Gardening, Witchcraft, Folklore, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 227
publisher: Tudor Publishers Inc