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Tulip
Celia Fisher
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Description for Tulip
Hardback. In Tulip, Celia Fisher traces the story of this important and highly popular plant, from its mountain beginnings to its cultivation in the gardens of Mughul, Persian and Ottoman potentates, and its migration from East to West along the silk trading routes. Series: Botanical. Num Pages: 224 pages, 100 illustrations, 70 in colour. BIC Classification: WMPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Wild tulips originally grew across Asia, often on the slopes of remote mountain ranges; the malleable genes of these progenitors gave rise to tulips' unrivalled variety of colour and form. In Tulip, Celia Fisher traces the story of this important and highly popular plant, from its mountain beginnings to its cultivation in the gardens of Mughal, Persian and Ottoman potentates, and its migration from East to West along the silk trading routes. Cultivated oriental hybrids reached European gardens in the sixteenth century, and their unique, intensely saturated petal colour, combined with their rarity, meant that they rapidly became a coveted ... Read more
Wild tulips originally grew across Asia, often on the slopes of remote mountain ranges; the malleable genes of these progenitors gave rise to tulips' unrivalled variety of colour and form. In Tulip, Celia Fisher traces the story of this important and highly popular plant, from its mountain beginnings to its cultivation in the gardens of Mughal, Persian and Ottoman potentates, and its migration from East to West along the silk trading routes. Cultivated oriental hybrids reached European gardens in the sixteenth century, and their unique, intensely saturated petal colour, combined with their rarity, meant that they rapidly became a coveted ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Botanical
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237596
SKU
V9781780237596
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Ref
99-15
About Celia Fisher
Celia Fisher has lectured and written widely on the history of plants and gardens in art. She is the author of many books, including Flowers of the Renaissance (2011), Flower: Paintings by 40 Great Artists (2012), The Golden Age of Flowers (2013) and The Magic of Birds (2014).
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