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is the book for you
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Natural history,
folklore, historic and modern uses of plants, name origins,
horticulture, literature, and even a bit of humor.
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74 chapters covering
hundreds of North American wildflowers, both natives and aliens.
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More than 90 color
photographs illustrating interesting and popular wildflowers.
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Huge bibliography with
comments on each book and tips on how to find out-of-print titles.
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Guide to World Wide Web
sites on wildflowers.
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Extensive index.
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320 pages, hardbound,
published April 2003 by Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe-Pequot.
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Jack Sanders’s
colorful tribute to wildflowers is bursting with odd facts, ingenious
uses, and bizarre superstition about some of North America’s most
beautiful and common plants. There are more than 10,000 varieties of
wildflowers in North America, some rare, some incredibly plentiful. Each
has a unique story.
There’s Bouncing Bet, a perennial common along roads and railroad
tracks,. It’s a beautiful plant, but also a useful one. Its sap makes a
fine soap. Colonial beer makers used to put a dab in to help the head on a
brew. Doctors used it to wash wounds.
Or Coltsfoot, which pops up almost alone in winters, and was used in New
England as a cure for coughs. Asthmatics used to smoke it for relief. For
many. years, apothecaries in France used Coltsfoot as a symbol, a
surprising pedigree; for a neglected “weed.”
More a companion than a field guide, The Secrets of Wildflowers is
must-have for anyone who enjoys a walk in a meadow or a gaze outside.
--from the publisher
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Jack Sanders is a
former editor for Wildflower
magazine and has written about wildflowers for The
New York Times. The editor of The
Ridge field Press, he lives with his wife, Sally, in Ridgefield,
Connecticut.
$24.95
TRADE CLOTH;
$39.95 IN CANADA ISBN
1-58574-668-1 |