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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 1881 letter-one of tho...

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Main Author: Mickey, Thomas J. (Author)
Other Authors: Birnbaum, Charles A. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Vick, James, > 1818-1882.
Vick Seed Company.
Flowers > Marketing.
Flowers > Varieties > Seeds.
Seed industry and trade > United States.
United States > History > 19th century.
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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.

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