Flowers and Herbs of Early America (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

by Barbara Temple Lombardi (Author), Lawrence D Griffith (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2010

  $30.80

  Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early Federal gardens. This book documents fifty-six species of flowers and herbs and provides details on how they were cultivated and used.