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The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion: Essential Writings

Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Stempien, and John Linstrom

Print publication date: 2019

Print ISBN-13: 9781501740237

Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: January 2020

DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501740237.001.0001

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Blossoms

Blossoms

Chapter:
(p.95) Blossoms
Source:
The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion
Author(s):
John A. Stempien, John Linstrom
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501740237.003.0023

This essay celebrates the joy of flowers, which are described as part of the "background" of the common day. The sense appeal of blossoms represents more than profit, botany, or gardening. It is the "fragile intimate brotherhood with the earth."

Keywords:   flowers, backgrounds, blossoms, brotherhood, gardening

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