amylsacks

amylsacks club

Posted: 17 Dec 2012


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Garden Bulbs In Color (16), 1938/45

Garden Bulbs In Color (16), 1938/45
"The introduction of many of our garden plants is closely tied up with human progress. In fact, we are greatly indebted to the explorers of the sixteen and seventeenth centuries for a large number of the flowers which now bloom in our dooryards... It was not until the year 1789 that Dahlias were grown on the continent. At that time seed was sent to the Royal Gardens at Madrid. The Marchioness of Bute, wife of the English ambassador to Spain, obtained some of these seeds, and germinated them in an English greenhouse..."

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