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Amy Stewart
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Thorndike Pr
Publication date
May 16, 2007
Pages
489
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780786295234
ISBN-10
0786295236
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
1.35 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$29.95
Other format details
large print
§As reported by publisher
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The Flower Farmer | The Earth Moved | From the Ground Up | The Flower Workshop | The Reason for Flowers | Wicked Plants | Girl Waits With Gun | The Drunken Botanist | Wicked Bugs
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Discusses how flower growers and sellers have changed their products to make them larger and more vibrant, and evaluates how this tinkering with nature has been both beneficial and detrimental to the cut flower industry.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has soughtâfor better or worseâto achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horitcultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.
Editions
Hardcover
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Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (May 16, 2007)
9780786295234 | details & prices | 489 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Discusses how flower growers and sellers have changed their products to make them larger and more vibrant, and evaluates how this tinkering with nature has been both beneficial and detrimental to the cut flower industry.
About: Discusses how flower growers and sellers have changed their products to make them larger and more vibrant, and evaluates how this tinkering with nature has been both beneficial and detrimental to the cut flower industry.
Paperback
from Algonquin Books (March 18, 2008)
9781565126039 | details & prices | 306 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.68 lbs | List price $13.95
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