Author: Duke Floral GardensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climbing plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Duke Floral Gardens
Author: Duke Floral GardensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climbing plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Duke Floral Gardens
Author: The Duke Floral Gardens
Author: Duke Floral GardensPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260656933
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Excerpt from The Duke Floral Gardens: Fall of 1926 The roses we offer are strictly field grown and on own roots, and of such varieties as are best suited to this section of South for gardenculture. They are full of vitality. And free from disease. Our roses are grown from cuttings in open ground, without water and without protection of any kind. They are sturdy, vigorous and disease resistant. We offer only one year roses, but please don't confuse them with those tender hot house plants, sent out by florists and nurserymen. These plants are from one to four feet high, well branched with vigorous root system. A trial order will convince you that we send out only high grade stock, the kind that grow and bloom, making for us satisfied enthusiastic customers and friends. Price of all roses, if delivered at nursery, per dozen. Less than one dozen strictly soc each. If sent by parcel post, add soc per dozen. For one-half dozen or less add 25c for packing and postage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Flower of Empire
Author: Tatiana HolwayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911169
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
The Garden
Author: Favored Flowers
Author: Catherine ZieglerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390019
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Billions of fresh-cut flowers are flown into the United States every year, allowing Americans to choose from a broad array of blooms regardless of the season. Favored Flowers is a lively investigation of the worldwide production and distribution of fresh-cut flowers and their consumption in the New York metropolitan area. In an ethnography filled with roses, orchids, and gerberas, flower auctions, new hybrids, and new logistical systems, Catherine Ziegler unravels the economic and cultural strands of the global flower market. She provides an historical overview of the development of the cut flower industry in New York from the late nineteenth century to 1970, and on to its ultimate transformation from a domestic to a global industry. As she points out, cut flowers serve no utilitarian purpose; rather, they signal consumers’ social and cultural decisions about expressing love, mourning, status, and identity. Ziegler shows how consumer behavior and choices have changed over time and how they are shaped by the media, by the types of available flowers, and by flower retailing. Ziegler interviewed more than 250 people as she followed flowers along the full length of the commodity chain, from cuttings in Europe and Latin America to vases in and around New York. She examines the daily experiences of flower growers in the Netherlands and Ecuador, two leading exporters of flowers to the United States. Primary focus, though, is on others in the commodity chain: exporters, importers, wholesalers, and retailers. She follows their activities as they respond to changing competition, supply, and consumer behavior in a market characterized by risk, volatility, and imperfect knowledge. By tracing changes in the wholesale and retail systems, she shows the recent development of two complementary commodity chains in New York and the United States generally. One leads to a high-end luxury market served by specialty florists and designers, and the other to a lower-priced mass market served by chain groceries, corner delis, and retail superstores.
Southern Florist and Nurseryman
Author: Flowers and Flower-gardens
Author: David Lester RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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