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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers

By Amy Stewart

Book information

Publisher
Algonquin Books
Year
2007
ISBN
1565124383, 9781565124387
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2609340 bytes)
Pages
306\0
Time added
2012-11-06 00:31:51

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 sought—for better or worse—to 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

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