All about Flowers : James Vick's Nineteenth-Century Seed Company /

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"A nineteenth-century entrepreneur's bold, innovative marketing helped transform flower gardens into one of America's favorite hobbies. There is much in this sin-plagued world of ours; and, had we no flowers, I believe existence would be hard to be born. So states a customer's 18...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mickey, Thomas J. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Birnbaum, Charles A. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vick, James, > 1818-1882.
Vick Seed Company.
Seed industry and trade.
Flowers > Marketing.
Seeds > Marketing.
Seed industry and trade > United States.
Flowers > Varieties > Seeds.
United States.
United States > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Vick the writer
  • Flowers in the garden: Flora, Goddess of Flowers
  • The garden industry in the nineteenth century
  • Women and flowers
  • Flower garden fashion
  • Vick Seed Company: founded on flowers
  • The garden catalog: means of business
  • Promoting the seed business
  • Building his business
  • Vick lays out the flower garden
  • Vick sells same flowers year after year
  • Victorian flowers that Vick loved
  • Vick's success: we still love his Victorian flowers.

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