Flowers and Herbs of Early America

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Griffith is curator of plants for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and former garden columnist for the Daily Press , Newport News, VA. He lives on the Middle Peninsula of Virginia. Barbara Temple Lombardi is a photographer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She lives in Williamsburg, VA. Klappentext In this sumptuously illustrated book, a leading historic plant expert brings the botanical heritage of colonial and early Federal gardens back to life. For each plant, an elegant period hand-colored engraving, watercolor, or woodcut is presented along with glorious new photographs. Zusammenfassung Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants! whose very names conjure up a bygone world! were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early Federal gardens. This book documents fifty-six species of flowers and herbs and provides details on how they were cultivated and used.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Griffith, Lawrence D. Griffith, GRIFFITH LAWRENCE D
• Assisted by: Barbara Temple Lombardi (Photographs), Lombardi Barbara Temple (Photographer)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2010
• EAN: 9780300164541
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16454-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Nature / Plants / Flowers, NATURE / Plants / General, United States of America, USA, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Earth Sciences