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Flower Confidential

By Amy Stewart

Flower Confidential

By Amy Stewart

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Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horitcultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2008-03-18
Publication Date:
2008-03-18
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1565126033
ISBN13:
9781565126039
Weight:
443 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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