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A Contemplation Upon Flowers:

Garden Plants in Myths and Literature
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Timber Press, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 446 pages
This is a perfect bedside book for the literate gardener and makes a terrific gardener's gift book. It is an entertaining survey of 80 plant genera, with a multitude of references to, and extracts from, myth and literature from Shakespeare to the Victorian language of flowers. Based on prodigious research, it includes much literature that has fallen into undeserved obscurity, as well as selections from the great poets. It is a delightful study of the influence of the world's flora on humanity, from the mundane to the mystical.

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About the author (1999)

Bobby J. Ward is past president of the North American Rock Garden Society. He has a degree in plant physiology, received his PhD in botany from North Carolina State University, and is a retired environmental scientist. A dedicated gardener, he has long been interested in plant names and plant lore. His book A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature won the Quill & Trowel Award of the Garden Writers Association.

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TitleA Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myths and Literature
AuthorBobby J. Ward
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherTimber Press, 1999
ISBN0881924695, 9780881924695
Length446 pages
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Literary Criticism / General
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
  
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