All about flowers James Vick's nineteenth-century seed company
"A nineteenth-century entrepreneur's bold, innovative marketing helped transform flower gardens into one of America's favorite hobbies. There is much in this sin-plagued world of ours; and, had we no flowers, I believe existence would be hard to be born. So states a customer's 18...
| Main Author: | Mickey, Thomas J. (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Birnbaum, Charles A. (writer of foreword.) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ohio :
Swallow Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Vick the Writer
- Flowers in the Garden: Flora, Goddess of Flowers
- The Garden Industry in the Nineteenth Century
- Women and Flowers
- Flower Garden Fashion
- Vick Seed Company: Founded on Flowers
- The Garden Catalog: Means of Business
- Promoting the Seed Business
- Building His Business
- Vick Lays Out the Flower Garden
- Vick Sells Same Flowers Year after Year
- Victorian Flowers That Vick Loved
- Vick's Success: We Still Love His Victorian Flowers.