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The reason for flowers : their history, culture, biology, and how they change our lives / Stephen Buchmann.
Title:
The reason for flowers : their history, culture, biology, and how they change our lives / Stephen Buchmann.
ISBN:
9781476755526
(hardcover)
1476755523
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Info:
New York :
Description:
x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
pt. 1. Sexuality and origins -- pt. 2. Growing, breeding, and selling -- pt. 3. Foods, flavors, scents -- pt. 4. Flowers in literature, art, and myth -- pt. 5. Flowers in the service of science and medicine.
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