Book ID: 30113
STUART, David and James SUTHERLAND
Plants from the Past. Old Flowers for New Gardens. 1987. 52 colour photographs. many black & white illu- strations. 255 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
This book describes the often astonishing beauty of the flowers grownin earlier ages, the 'antiques' of the garden. Surprising numbers oflovely old varieties survive, so that even the tiniest and most moderngarden can be full of history. It can easily contain flowersdomesticated by the earliest civilizations of Mesopotamia, or plantsonce food crops of the Incas long before Columbus discovered theAmericas. Any gardener can grow plants bred and loved by the artisansof eighteenth-century England, admired by the princes of RenaissanceItaly, or collected in the Himalayas for Victorian millionaires.-Good second hand copy.