1001 Questions About Flowers - Norman Taylor

Fascinating, authoritative, easy-to-follow guide to flower form and function, orchids, Eastern and Western wildflowers, older cultivated varieties, today’s perennials, annuals and biennials; flowering trees and shrubs, and tropical and subtropical flowers. Includes botanical and common names, places of origin, outstanding characteristics, and practical advice on planting and cultivation.

What flower is almost inflammable?  What beautiful native shrub produces poisonous honey?  What fragrant floral is the world's only source of vanilla?  Answers to these and hundreds of other intriguing questions are found in this fascinating, authoritative and easy-to-follow guide to flowers. 

Following an introductory section on flower form and function and a special discussion of orchids, one of America's foremost botanical authorities provides a delightful excursion through the fascinating world of flowering plants.

The inviting question and answer format provides nature lovers with a wealth of data, including botanical and common names, places of origin and outstanding characeristics, and also offers practical advice on planting and cultvation.  Over 75 illustrations enhance this illuminating, fact filled guide.

Unabridged Dover (1996) republication of the work published by Dodd, Mead & company, New York, 1963.  60 black and white illustrations.  16 halftones.
Index.  335 pages. 5 3/8 x 8 1/2. Paperback