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100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names

Flowers that grow on you (Test)

By Wells, Diana & Szamatulski, Mark & Winner, Lauren F. & Abbie, Salny F & Dorcas Adkins & Alvarez, Julia

Publishers Summary:
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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978-1-56512-138-6
Publisher
Algonquin Books


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Reviewed on February 1, 1997

The title of this book is somewhat misleading, as Wells (contributing editor of the gardening magazine Greenprints) does not focus strictly on the simple derivation of plant names. (Another recent book on plant names, Martha Barnette's A Garden of Words, Times Bks., 1992, provides much more ety...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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