horticulture

Love in all its forms has been depicted by the image of the rose and fascination in the flowers symbolism has been admired by poets and captured by painters for centuries. This magic flower became especially popular in the 17th century.  This image rich book contains famous paintings and still life’s depicting roses, many quotes and poems written about them, and images of the earliest botanical prints. The Romance of the Rose describes images of the 13,000 varieties of roses depicted as early as a 4000 year old fresco in the Minoan place in Knossos on Krete.  Many famous paintings overlook the

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Dongen tells the story of the tulip from ancient times, when the tulip was first admired as early as the 1050s in the area of what is now China, Tibet and Russia. Tulips are also mentioned frequently in Arabic and Persian poetry.

The tulip was once a greatly desired plant. In the 1520s gardens devoted purely to tulips first appeared in Europe and tulip bulbs were introduced to the French court, where they became highly fashionable flowers. By 1630 there were 300 florists in Istanbul trading tulip bulbs.  By 1636 tulips traders made the current equivalent