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Geranium

DATE: 2017-11-16  SIZE: 8.8 MB     DISKS: 1x 10MB     PAGES: n/a

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books                    GENRE:

AUTHOR: Kasia Boddy

FORMAT: PDF   PROTECTION: DRM  EDITION: n/a

URL: https://is.gd/LnK6yL

LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9781780230481

: Reaktion's new 'Botanical' series is the first of its kind, integrating    :
: horticultural and botanical writing with a broader account of the cultural :
: and social impact of plants. In that sense, the South African geranium (th :
: enduring, if confusing, common name for the genus Pelargonium) is perhaps  :
: the perfect plant to inaugurate the series. The story of the geranium's    :
: inexorable rise encompasses many other historical narratives: from plant   :
: hunting to commercial cultivation; from the role of plants in alternative  :
: medicine and the philanthropic imagination to changing styles in           :
: horticultural fashion. Geraniums were first collected by seventeenth-      :
: century Dutch plant hunters on the sandy flats near present-day Cape Town, :
: and before long wealthy collectors and enterprising nurserymen were        :
: competing for this latest rarity to grace their hothouses. But the geraniu :
: was not destined to be a fashionable exotic for long: scarlet hybrids were :
: soon to be found on every cottage windowsill and in every park bedding     :
: display, and the horticultural backlash began. Today geraniums can be foun :
: throughout the world, their widespread use in food and perfume manufacture :
: as well as floral display exemplifying the global industrialization of     :
: plant production. In Geranium, Kasia Boddy details how the cheerful and    :
: amenable geranium remains a plant that many love and others love to hate,  :
: but above all it is a flower that is seldom ignored. Featuring numerous    :
: fine illustrations, Geraniumexplores the ever-changing image of the plant  :
: as portrayed in painting, literature, film and popular culture worldwide.  :

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