A Contemplation upon Flowers
Subtitle: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature
Contributors: Ann Lovejoy (Foreword)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Published: September 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780881927276
Subjects: Flowers; Literary studies: general; Myths & mythology; Wildflowers; Gardening; Gardening / Horticulture; Gardening/Plants; Essays; Nature / Flowers; Flowers in literature; Folklore; Plants in literature
First sentence: The thirty species of the perennial Acanthus were originally distributed across the Mediterranean, into Asia Minor, and throughout tropical Africa and Australia.