amylsacks

amylsacks club

Posted: 12 Jan 2013


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1945
1940s
1938
1930s
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Garden Bulbs In Color (18), 1938/45

Garden Bulbs In Color (18), 1938/45
"...In the second century the Greek doctor Dioscorides described several varieties of 'Corn lilies' which we have since learned were species of Gladiolus. Alfred M.S. Pridham, of Cornell University, reminds us that these familiar garden flowers were used, together with fragrant herbs, for strewing paths in the time of Queen Elizabeth..."

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