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Informationen zum Autor Sara L. Van Beck, horticulturist and plant historian, is an officer of the American Daffodil Society and serves on the board of the Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center. Van Beck has worked as a museum curator with the National Park Service and is the former president of the Georgia Daffodil Society. She is co-author of Daffodils in Florida: A Field Guide to the Coastal South and has written articles for the Daffodil Journal, the Magnolia bulletin of the Southern Garden History Society, and Florida Gardening. Klappentext Since their earliest identification in the mid-1500s! more than twenty-eight thousand hybrid daffodils have been named and registered with the Royal Horticulture Society of England. Sara L. Van Beck traces the history of the garden daffodil including its early days in Europe! especially the Netherlands; the importation of flowering bulbs to colonial America; and plant breeding and the dissemination of plants throughout the US until World War II. Zusammenfassung A multifaceted history of daffodils and the historic and modern gardens they have called home