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Carnation.
Carnations permeate our culture from the wedding bed to the funeral wreath. Derided in Shakespeare as 'nature's bastards', they challenged the tulip as the florist's favourite flower, and went on to give their blessing to both a military coup and a Soho night club. Spanning the w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2016.
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| Colección: | Botanical.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Carnation ; Imprint Page; Contents; One: The Divine Flower ; Two: What's in a Name? ; Three: Nature's Bastards: From Divinity to Blasphemy ; Four: Florists, Weavers and Cottagers ; Five: Fit for Royalty: Empresses and Queens ; Six: A Rainbow of Pinks ; Seven: A Picture of Pink ; Eight: A Strengthener of the Heart and Brain ; Nine: Crossing Continents: The Tangled Web of the Perpetual Carnation ; Epilogue: The Everlasting Carnation ; An Explication of Carnation Types and Common Terms ; Timeline ; References ; Further Reading ; Associations and Websites ; Acknowledgements.