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Harrowsmith gardening editor Jennifer Bennett travels "the sweetly scented, dangerous, romantic path women share with plants" and discovers a world rich in myth, magic, scientific curiosity and entrepreneurial spirit.
Author : Jennifer Bennett
Publisher : Camden East, Ont. : Camden House
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Gardening
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Harrowsmith gardening editor Jennifer Bennett travels "the sweetly scented, dangerous, romantic path women share with plants" and discovers a world rich in myth, magic, scientific curiosity and entrepreneurial spirit.
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Christian fiction, English
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Literature
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Poetry
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Author : Diana Wells
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 1997-01-02
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1565126858
Illustrations by Ippy Patterson. From Baby Blue Eyes to Silver Bells, from Abelia to Zinnia, every flower tells a story. Gardening writer Diana Wells knows them all. Here she presents one hundred well-known garden favorites and the not-so-well-known stories behind their names. Not for gardeners only, this is a book for anyone interested not just in the blossoms, but in the roots, too.
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Page : 738 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 1851
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Author : Great Exhibition
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Page : 948 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Exhibitions
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Author : Rhonda Woodward
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101572892
Available Digitally for the First Time For "historically accurate writing that shines" (All About Romance) look no further than this classic Rhonda Woodward Signet Regency Romance. Miss Julia Allard is enjoying an afternoon of shopping in town when a handsome stranger catches up to her. Before she knows what's happening, she is in his arms being kissed! Miss Allard slaps her assailant, the Duke of Kelbourne, but not before her reputation is tarnished...and the memory of his passionate kiss is sealed on her lips. Cutting her Season short, she returns home to Bath to concoct an elaborate revenge. But little does she know that the duke has some rakish plans of his own... Don't miss Rhonda Woodward's classics, A Spinster's Luck and A Hint of Scandal--available in eBook from InterMix.
Author : Elizabeth Hyde
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812204069
Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, dukes and kings. Elizabeth Hyde reveals how flowers became uniquely capable of revealing the curiosity, reason, and taste of those elite men who engaged in their cultivation. The cultural and increasingly political value of such qualities was not lost on royal panegyrists, who seized upon the new meanings of flowers in celebrating the glory of Louis XIV. Using previously unexplored archival sources, Hyde recovers the extent of floral plantations in the gardens of Versailles and the sophisticated system of nurseries created to fulfill the demands of the king's gardeners. She further examines how the successful cultivation of those flowers made it possible for Louis XIV to demonstrate that his reign was a golden era surpassing even that of antiquity. Cultivated Power expands our knowledge of flowers in European history beyond the Dutch tulip mania, and restores our understanding of the importance of flowers in the French classical garden. The book also develops a fuller perspective on the roles of gender, rank, and material goods in the age of the baroque. Using flowers to analyze the movement of culture in early modern society, Cultivated Power ultimately highlights the influence of curious florists on the taste of the king, and the extension of the cultural into the realm of the political.
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Page : 594 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1885
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