Forget-Me-Not: A Floral Treasury Sentiments and Plant Lore from the Language of Flowers - Couverture rigide

Fordham, D.

 
9780821220009: Forget-Me-Not: A Floral Treasury Sentiments and Plant Lore from the Language of Flowers
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0821220004 ISBN 13 : 9780821220009
Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 1993

Synopsis

For centuries plants and flowers have been surrounded by their own unique legends, myths and folklore. Poets and playwrights since Elizabethan times have used them to convey sentiments in the subtlest of ways but it was the Victorians who raised this symbolism to an art form. In an age of strict morals and repressed sexuality, the language of flowers served as a code between lovers and friends. This book reveals many varied and iuntriguing meanings behind a whole host of flowers, explores their special powers and properties and the myths that surround them. At a practical level, the book explains how to create a birthday posy using flowers which represent the appropriate date and which flowers of sympathy, kindness and understanding to mingle in a bouquet of condolence.

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Éditeur
Little, Brown & Company
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0821220004
ISBN 13 
9780821220009
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible