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About Orchids
- Author: Boyle Frederick
- Genre: Flowers
Frederick Boyle is known as the researcher of plants whose studies are popular all over the world and have been republished a number of times. This book of his is devoted to orchids and describes everything concerning these flowers including their origin, types, conditions for growing and a number of other interesting and useful things which would fascinate all lovers of gardens and flowers.
The Rose-Garden Husband
- Author: Widdemer Margaret
- Genre: Roses
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office.
florence
- Author: adolf philippi
- Genre: Flowers
Fig. I. Cathedral with Campanile, from the South.I. CONDITIONS OF FLORENTINE CULTURE.LORENCE, the City of Flowers, is wonderfully situated. Climb up toFiesole in the early Spring, when nature is bare and grey in our coldNorth-up the green slopes between laurel and silvery olives and pointed, black cypresses, until you look down upon the marble-town with its cupolas and roofs, buried in a sea of blossoms,-and you will understand the name. From the opposite south-side, from S. Miniato across the Arno, you get the view of Florence against this wall of blossoming green. This town, enjoying all the blessing of nature, also takes first place in Italy as a habitation of modern man, especially since the changes of the last thirty years; it offers rest and enjoyment like no other town. Though without industries and noisy turmoil, Florence is not dead, like Venice and Pisa; she lives on the recollections of a glorious past and guards the treasures of her unique culture. What would ItTable of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; I I; II History of the Town until about 1300 P- 5; III The three Walls The Squares Impressions of the Town P- 19; I/ P- 24; V P- 31; I P- 38; Vl P- 42; VIII Gothic Secular Architecture P- 58; IX The Fifteenth Century P- 64; X The Early Renaissance P- 77; XI Churches of the Renaissance P- 100; XII P- 112; XIII P- 120; XIV P- i3>; XV The Exile of the Medici (1494) and their Return (1512)' P- 157; XVI 168; XVII 179About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page wh