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All about flowers James Vick's nineteenth-century seed company /

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mickey, Thomas J. (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Birnbaum, Charles A. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [2021]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.