Geranium
Boddy tells the story of the geranium's inexorable rise to floral domination, uncovering its role in botanical exploration and commercial cultivation, and considering its uses for pharmacists, philanthropists, poets and painters
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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London
Reaktion Books
2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | Reaktion's botanical series
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| Zusammenfassung: | Boddy tells the story of the geranium's inexorable rise to floral domination, uncovering its role in botanical exploration and commercial cultivation, and considering its uses for pharmacists, philanthropists, poets and painters |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction -- Out of Africa -- New familiars -- Bedding and breeding -- The geranium in the window -- Brief fall, then inexorable rise -- Postscript |
| Beschreibung: | 216 p ill. (chiefly col.) 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781780230481 1780230486 |