Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herb gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Herbs and Herb Gardening
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Includes Part 1A: Books
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2446
Book Description
Establishing and Operating a Restaurant
Author: United States. Business and Defense Services Administration. Office of DistributionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Restaurants
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Acreage-marketing Guides
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
The Passion for Pelargoniums
Author: Anne WilkinsonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496069
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Quick and reliable to grow for summer colour, and well marketed, most gardeners will have at least one pelargonium in their garden or conservatory, without realising either the number or variety of species available, nor the plant's extraordinary history. The Passion for Pelargoniums reveals the fascinating and dramatic tales of those who have been involved in finding, classifying, collecting and breeding the plants. It explodes the myth that all modern versions of the plant are descended from the oldest known variety - the seventeenth-century drab-coloured P. triste, literally translated as the sad pelargonium, and reveals that 2,000 hybrids have been developed from less than a dozen plants originally imported from the East. From the contribution of L'Heritier, whom Sir Joseph Banks named 'an impudent Frenchman', to collectors like Masson and the Marquess of Blandford (known for his 'elegant emporium'), competing nurserymen determined to make both fortunes and reputations, and the burgeoning Victorian varieties as growers searched for the holy grail of the scarlet geranium, the book recounts the plant's extraordinary history. Today, while traditional white ones, doubles, 'nosegays' and 'rosebuds' still flourish, the 'lemon-scented geranium' is only one of a number of scented varieties, while pelargoniums can have flowers of pink, red, purple, yellow or black. This is the story of how the passion felt by gardeners for their plants stirred them to bitter rivalry and criminal obsession, scandal, fraud, and fast dealing, and saw polite society being rather less than polite.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.