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Author(s): Celia Fisher Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 1780237596   Pages: 224 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: alex21s Upload Date: 10/11/2023 2:39:56 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description A long time ago, you could only find them on the slopes of remote mountain ranges in Asia, but today they are the very symbol of modern genetics, a species unrivalled for the variety of colors and forms that breeders can create: tulips. In this book, Celia Fisher traces the story of this important and highly popular plant, from its mountain beginnings to its prevalence in the gardens of Mughal, Persian, and Ottoman potentates from its migration across the Silk Road to its explosive cultivation in the modern European world. Fisher looks at how tulips intensely saturated color has made them an important species for botanists and gardeners. Initially rare in sixteenth century Netherlands, tulips sparked such frenzy among aristocratic collectors that they caused the first economic bubble and collapse. Exploring the ways cultivators have created one hybrid after anotherin an astonishing range of colors and shapesFisher also shows how tulips have inspired art and literature throughout the centuries, from Ottoman Turkey to the paintings of the Dutch Masters, from Alexandre Dumass novel Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3206037 Book https://nitroflare.com/view/F8A0FC24BF4E...   0.00 alex21s Tags: Botanical Tulip Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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