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Flower Confidential
Amy Stewart
其他書名
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
出版Hachette UK, 2008-03-18
主題Nature / Plants / FlowersGardening / Essays & NarrativesScience / Life Sciences / Botany
ISBN15651264599781565126459
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gHZ4EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A globe-trotting, behind-the-scenes look at the dazzling world of flowers and the fascinating industry it has created.

Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.