Download or read book Myths and Legends of Flowers Trees Fruits and Plants in All Ages and in All Climes written by Charles Montgomery Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myths and Legends of Flowers Trees Fruits and Plants written by Charles M. Skinner and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1911, this early work by Charles M. Skinner is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It delves deep into the mythology of the natural world and uncovers legends of times long forgotton. This is a fascinating work and highly recommended for all folklore enthusiasts. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Myths and Legends of Flowers Trees Fruits and Plants written by Charles M. Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arbor Day Annual written by University of the State of New York and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arbor Day Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plants of Life Plants of Death written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Hackley Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearts Cupids and Red Roses written by Edna Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Valentine's Day and the little-known stories behind its symbols.
Download or read book Symbols in Arts Religion and Culture written by Farrin Chwalkowski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are a product of nature. Every single cell of our body is made of, and depends, on nature. Our inner soul is heavily influenced by nature. We feel sad if the sun is not shining for a few days, and feel pleasure when drawn to the wonder of flowers and uplifted by the song of birds. We came from nature; we are part of nature. In short, we are nature. Nature has been an intimate part of the human experience from the earliest times. Different religions and cultures, from all corners of the world, have honoured and worshipped nature in art, ritual and literature in their own unique ways. This book shows how we learn about our own human nature, our own sense of identity and how we fit into the larger scheme of life and spirit when we come to better understand how our human ancestors, through art, symbol and myth, expressed their relationship with the natural world.
Download or read book Willow written by Alison Syme and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drooping lazily over waterways, shading gardens, guarding hedgerows—the willow tree is a poetically formed plant, but also a practical one. For millennia, the wood of the willow has been used for baskets, furniture, fences, and toys, while finding its place in the watercolors of Monet, Shakespearean tragedies, Hans Christian Andersen, and The Lord of the Rings. Telling the willow’s rich and multilayered tale, Alison Syme explores its presence in literature, art, and human history. Syme examines the manifold practical uses of the tree, discussing the application of its bark in medicines, its production as an energy crop that produces biofuel and charcoal, and its employment for soil stabilization and other environmental protection schemes. But despite all the functional uses of willows, she argues, we must also heed the lessons they teach about living, dying, and enriching our world. Looking at the roles that willows have played in folklore, religion, and art, she parses their connections to grief and joy, toil and play, necessity and ornament. Filled with one hundred images, Willow is a seamless account of the singular place the willow holds in our culture.
Download or read book Gardening with Heirloom Seeds written by Lynn Coulter and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heirloom seeds are more than the promise of next summer's crookneck squash or jewel-colored zinnias. They're living antiques handed down from one generation to the next, a rich inheritance of flavor and beauty from long ago and, often, far away. They are sometimes better adapted to pests and harsh conditions than many modern varieties and often simply smell or taste better. Gardening with Heirloom Seeds serves as a resource for gardeners, cooks, and plant lovers of all levels of expertise who want to know more about finding, sharing, and propagating the seeds of heirloom flowers, fruits, and vegetables. In these beautifully illustrated pages, Lynn Coulter describes fifty treasured heirloom species, from Frenchman's Darling, a flowering herb whose seeds were pocketed by Napoleon Bonaparte when he invaded Egypt in 1798, to Snow White beets, an old Dutch favorite that will not stain the cook's fingers red. Most of the plants included here will grow all across the United States; a few are best suited for warmer climates. The text is sprinkled throughout with practical advice from heirloom gardeners and lists sources for finding the seeds of many old varieties. Because it also provides ample room for making notes, Gardening with Heirloom Seeds can be used year after year and can become an heirloom in its own right--a personal journal to pass along to the next generation of gardeners.
Download or read book Springfield City Library Bulletin written by Springfield City Library Association (Springfield, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions from the Lloyd Library Cincinnati Ohio Bibliography relating to the floras of Austria Bohemia Poland Hungary Belgium Luxemburg Netherlands and Switzerland July 1911 written by Lloyd Library and Museum and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions from the Lloyd Library written by Lloyd Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions from the Lloyd Library Cincinnati Ohio written by Lloyd Library (Cincinnati, Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food in China written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a study of Chinese food from a cultural and historical perspective. Its focus is on traditional China before establishment of the People's Republic. It identifies and provides comprehensive information on a broad range of Chinese food plants and animals for general readers, as well as for specialists whose interests have led them to
Download or read book Scents and Sensibility written by Catherine Maxwell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. Concentrating on aesthetic and decadent authors, Scents and Sensibility introduces a rich selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility. A key theme is the emergence of the olfactif, the cultivated individual with a refined sense of smell, influentially represented by the poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne, who is emulated by a host of canonical and less well-known aesthetic and decadent successors such as Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, John Addington Symonds, Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Field, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, Theodore Wratislaw, and A. Mary F. Robinson. This book explores how scent and perfume pervade the work of these authors in many different ways, signifying such diverse things as style, atmosphere, influence, sexuality, sensibility, spirituality, refinement, individuality, the expression of love and poetic creativity, and the aura of personality, dandyism, modernity, and memory. A coda explores the contrasting twentieth-century responses of Virginia Woolf and Compton Mackenzie to the scent of Victorian literature.
