Flower Chronicles

the long version

"First published in 1958, Flower Chronicles is brimming with literary and historical references drawn from folklore, poetry, and medicine. This compendium on the history of flowers leads readers through a virtual garden to explain how varieties of the rose, iris, lily, peony, tulip, saffron crocus, daisy, poppy, cornflower, primrose, nasturtium, dahlia, marigold, carnation, and narcissus played different roles in many civilizations. E. Buckner Hollingsworth describes how flowers were used in drugs, cosmetics, laundry products, and cooking ingredients long before they were grown simply for beauty."--BOOK JACKET.