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Seed to Elegance
Kevin Williams
其他書名
Kentia Palms of Norfolk Island, South Pacific
出版Studio Monarch Books, 2007
主題Gardening / GeneralHouse & Home / Decorating & FurnishingsScience / Life Sciences / Botany
ISBN09775121189780977512119
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Yz5yAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋70% of the worlds supply of Kentia Palms comes from a three by five mile territory of Australia. This book tells the story of a tree and the people associated with it that makes a fascinating history as well as explaining its famous present appreciation. "Romantic" is not a word often associated with a plant book. Usually the how to and where-from information is succinct and sufficient. "Seed to Elegance" is different. Its story includes mutiny and love for an island princess, brutish servitude in a penal colony, intervention by a stylish Queen Victoria and the dreams of a returned Norfolk Island serviceman after World War Two. Isolated for much of its history by a thousand miles of balmy, blue South Pacific, Norfolk Island has made its own place in the sun with successful ventures. Kentia Palms have much to do with this. Queen Victoria was especially fond of Kentia Palms. What she had decorating her royal residences became what everyone else wanted. Kevin Williams has written the story of the Kentia Palms from Norfolk Island that encompasses island history, when Kentia seed arrived on Norfolk Island, the trees life cycle, establishment of Island plantations, introduction of seedlings into Europe and North America in the late 1880s, the procedures of the industry, and the care of the Kentia Palm at home. Over 100 illustrations from around the globe demonstrate the Kentias unique place in the foliage world.