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All about Flowers: James Vick's Nineteenth-Century Seed Company
By Mickey, Thomas J.
- ISBN
- 9780804012294
- Publisher
- Swallow
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Reviewed on June 1, 2021 | Science & Technology
A lion of 19th-century horticulture, often mentioned in the same breath as Darwin in his era, James Vick has since largely faded from public consciousness. Mickey (communication studies, Bridgewater State Univ.) describes Vick's innovations as not only a seed purveyor but a marketer, whose catalogues popularized the nascent Victorian fad for growing flowers and ed...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
