Flower Chronicles
Edition: University of Chicago Press Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780226349800
Subjects: Gardening: plants; Nature; Gardening / Horticulture; Nature / Field Guide Books; Nature/Ecology; Flowers - General; History; Nature / Flowers; General; Flowers
Description: "First published in 1958, Flower Chronicles is brimming with literary and historical references drawn from folklore, poetry, and medicine. This compendium on the history of flowers leads readers through a virtual garden to explain how varieties of the rose, iris, lily, peony, tulip, saffron crocus, daisy, poppy, cornflower, primrose, nasturtium, dahlia, marigold, carnation, and narcissus played different roles in many civilizations. E. Buckner Hollingsworth describes how flowers were used in drugs, cosmetics, laundry products, and cooking ingredients long before they were grown simply for beauty."--BOOK JACKET.