While Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past does provide a listing of plants by genus and pages of beautifully photographed flowers and plants, the focus of this book is on
the history of the plants’ breeders themselves--a topic which is fascinating, important, and vastly under-researched. Chapters in this book are organized by the author’s intuition, focusing
sometimes on one flower entirely or in the context of the plants they breed, like roses or azaleas, and including history on botany and horticulture, important flower breeders in Europe and the
United States, and plants by genus, including shrubs and herbaceous plants. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
