A Contemplation Upon Flowers

出版者:Workman Pub Co

作者:Ward, Bobby J.

页数:447

出版时间:2009-8

价格:$ 39.49

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780881927276

图书标签:植物外国文学

This is a perfect bedside book for the literate gardener and makes a terrific gardener's gift book. It is an entertaining survey of 80 plant genera, with a multitude of references to, and extracts from, myth and literature from Shakespeare to the Victorian language of flowers. Based on prodigious research, it includes much literature that has fallen into undeserved obscurity, as well as selections from the great poets. It is a delightful study of the influence of the world's flora on humanity, from the mundane to the mystical.