Rabbits: Health, Husbandry and Diseases

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Rabbits are the third most popular pet in the world and the trend to keep them indoors will make the "house rabbit" the pet of the next century. Owners expect the same standard of care for their rabbit as their dog or cat. This book will provide a practical and concise guide to the health, husbandry and diseases of pet and house rabbits and will be an invaluable resource for busy vets in practice.

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1994 North American Coins & Prices: A Guide to U.S., Canadian, and Mexican Coins (North American Coins & Prices)
Jim Lenzke
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0873412664

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In a large garden live the Flower Fairies™ and their many friends. There's mischievous Periwinkle, shy Daffodil, Poppy, who likes to give parties for Flower Fairy™ children, and Marigold, who loves the sun. Seventeen fairies in all are featured in this book that's chock full of the details young readers and listeners love to know about the Flower Fairies and their secret lives.

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Our girls LOVE this fairy book.......2006-01-28

The illustrations are really nice. Beautiful. Our 3 preschool daughers are very into fairies right now and they LOVE this book. They love the stories associated with all the flowers. Part of me would think the book would be a bit old for them, but not at all. They love it and want to read it over and over and over.

Enhanced pictures, cute text.......2004-12-16

My 5-year old enjoyed this introduction to the flower fairy friends. It takes the lovely drawings of Cicely Mary Barker and places them with photographs of flowers, and combines them in different ways. It is neatly done. The text describes the different fairies and what their personalities are like. It is sweet but uninspired. We're looking forward to reading others id the Flower Fairy Friends series.

Mary's Flowers: Gardens, Legends & Meditations (Living Legends of Our Lady)

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St. Martha Parish-Wide Bulletin Book Club December Selection
this book costs more here than at barns and noble!
A must book for gardeners in need of inspiration
Calming, inspiring, can't wait for spring
A Gorgeous Meditative Tribute

Mary's Flowers: Gardens, Legends & Meditations (Living Legends of Our Lady)
Vincenzina Krymow , and M. Jean Frisk
Manufacturer: Saint Anthony Messenger Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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St. Martha Parish-Wide Bulletin Book Club December Selection.......2001-12-02

The monks of the middle ages can be heard singing Ave Maria, Ave Maria from the glossy, A. Joseph Barrish, S. M. illustrated pages of the St. Martha Parish-Wide Bulletin Book Club December Selection. Barrish, working with Schoenstatt Sister of Mary, M. Jean Frisk, has created a brilliant reminiscence of the time of incense and flowers in the Roman Catholic Church. Frisk, who holds a masters in Theology with Marian Concentration and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology, gives us legends and meditations to ponder as we look at Barrish's stunning, full-page illustrations of dozens of flowers that bear a name or a mythical relationship to the Mother of Christ.
This selection leads us through our shared Christian spirituality in the natural beauty around us through a history of flower legends and names using flowers of the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Presentation, Flight into Egypt, Maternity of Mary, Mary as Homemaker, Mary at the Cross, and Devotion Rewarded.
Among the legends told in mystery plays of the medieval times is that of Madelon who having nothing to give the Babe Jesus was led by the Angel Gabriel to roses blooming at the girl's feet. "The French poet, Emile Blemont, ended his story of Madelon with this quotation: Though thou art poor and hast no gold to bring, Though ice-bound earth no Heaven-sent flowers bestows, Yet give thy heart this Noel to thy King. This is the Legend of the Christmas Rose." (p. 48)
In addition to an excellent appendix, index, and bibliography of gardens and plant listings, this book also is a personal Mary Garden planner. Just in time for Chistmas gift exchanges to allow you to give more knowledge of Faith in a vibrant, beautiful, and interesting way. This quality publication gives artistically, as Christian art has, to those who enjoy studying the nobility of the world around them, as well as to those who plant gardens! (St. Martha, Okemos, Michigan Foundations in Adult Education, Fr. Jon Wehrle, Pastor)

this book costs more here than at barns and noble!.......2000-05-11

why cant you make this book cheeper or at the same price this book is called mary's flowers, please if you want more people to by your books make them cheeper!

A must book for gardeners in need of inspiration.......2000-03-01

An inspiring book for gardeners who til their soil this spring. I plan to replant a section of my garden because of this book. I will devote this land to Mary and St. Francis...

Calming, inspiring, can't wait for spring.......2000-02-03

Mary's Flowers was a keeper from the time I opened the box. The cover drew me to the book, and as I skipped through the pages I knew for once in my life I had to begin on page one and continue.........not my usual way......I begin in the back........the drawings are magnificent, the stories fascinating and the relativity between the flowers and the Blessed Virgin truly inspiring. The book is one of the highlights of my collection. I only wish I had written it.... JoKay Miltenberger Arcanum OH

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A Gorgeous Meditative Tribute.......2000-01-15

Beautifully written and illustrated, this book inspired me to plan my own garden with some of the flowers it mentions. The botanical watercolors are practically a garden in themselves! A great resource for gardeners.

Sweet Pea's Garden: Special Things to Make and DoA Flower Fairies Friends Book (Flower Fairies Friends)

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Wonderful ideas
Beautiful Book

Sweet Pea's Garden: Special Things to Make and DoA Flower Fairies Friends Book (Flower Fairies Friends)
Cicely Mary Barker
Manufacturer: Warne
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0723256705

Book Description

This activity book is filled with fun fairy crafts to make and includes more than fifty flowery stickers.With clear directions, helpful illustrations, and some magic from your favorite Flower Fairies, you can make a mini indoor flower garden, lavender sachets, birthday cards, garlands, and even special Flower Fairy fruit juice.Templates and color photos of the finished projects are included.

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Wonderful ideas.......2007-08-09

My girls (ages 4 and 5) love this book and all the sweet fairy crafts they can make. Our personal favorite is the fairy garden and the minuscule decorations for it. I want to make one for myself!

Beautiful Book.......2007-02-14

I got this, along with How to Host a Flower Fairy Tea Party to use for decorating ideas at my daughters birthday party. The items are very simple to make and most required items that are easily found around the house. And you don't necassarily have to be having a birthday, or an kind of party, to have fun with this book. The fun projects include items suchs as planting and decorating a fairy garden, making you own wings, fairy dust, etc. There are 14 projects in all. The stickers are wonderful and I almost hate to use them. A beautiful book that's worth owning just for the illustrations.

A Contemplation upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature

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A dipping book
Rare book that explains each flowerýs role in the history
Dainty young thing....

A Contemplation upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature
Bobby J. Ward
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0881924695

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"The snowdrop, in purest white arraie,
First rears her hedde on Candlemas daie;"
From an early church calendar of English flowers, ca. 1500

As you pick up spade and shovel and head out into the garden, you might want to offer up a prayer for sunny days and rainy nights to one of the patron saints of gardening described by Bobby Ward in this fascinating compilation of horticultural wit and whimsy.

Have you ever wondered how flowers get their names, both common and scientific, or what Shakespeare or Milton had to say about roses or honeysuckle? Collected in this fat, satisfying volume are quotations from poetry, plays, and stories written by the ancient Greeks up through the Victorians that trace the rich history of the natural world as captured in myth and literature. Symbolism, traditional medicinal uses, and most of all lyrical tributes to favorite plants from acanthus to zinnia fill the pages of this book, to be read for sheer pleasure or dipped into for information about specific flowers. The book is easy to use compared to many such compilations, in part because it is arranged by type of plant, and because Ward has masterfully woven it all together with a blend of historical and botanical commentary for context.

You won't learn from this book how to plant a bulb or grow a tomato, but there are more than enough books on the practical matters of gardening. Rather, folk tales, myths, legends, and lore of the flowers, in the words of sages, saints, herbalists, and poets provide inspiration, humor, and fine reading. --Valerie Easton

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An entertaining survey of 80 plant genera, with a multitude of references to, and extracts from, myth and literature throughout the ages. This delightful book will inspire you to look at your own garden in a new light, based on what William Blake or the ancient Romans said about them.

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A dipping book.......2003-05-07

A Contemplation upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature. Bobby Ward. Timber Press. 1999.

In his introduction Bobby Ward, botanist and environmental scientist asserts that writers have contemplated upon flowers since the beginning of written history, and his well-researched book proves his point.

This book neatly manages to balance science and art, keeping in mind both botanical accuracy and the poetic licence taken by some of the more fanciful Victorian poets. Mr Ward has researched some 82 varieties of flowers and arranged them alphabetically by their common name. You can read it in sequence if you like an orderly approach. I found myself picking out my favourite plants and discovering their ancient history as well as the way in which poets and playwrights had portrayed them. You'll always find treasures:

- the name `lilac' comes from Persian and Arabic words describing its color. Its Latin name `syringa' comes from a Greek word meaning `pipe' and refers to its hollow stem. Our word `syringe' comes from the same root.

- an ancient legend says that peonies were only to be picked at night. The woodpecker guarding them would attack the eyes of anyone picking them during the day.

This is that rare treat, a "dipping book". You pick out the parts that grab your interest immediately, then keep it beside your armchair to dip into as time goes on. If you enjoy discovering more about the lore and literature of the plants in your garden you'll find "A Contemplation upon Flowers" a treasure to be added to your bookshelf.

Rare book that explains each flowerýs role in the history.......2001-02-18

There are many books that tell gardeners the growing conditions and requirements of different flowers. However, rare is the book that explains each flower's role in the world's history and literature, as well as their medicinal uses and, the roots of each flower's botanical and common names. That is why Bobby Ward's A Contemplation Upon Flowers, which traces the history of eighty plants from the time of the Greek's to today, is such a treasure.

This book is a must have for any serious gardener. Bobby Ward reveals long lost secretes about some of the world's favorite gardening plants that until now where lost and hidden in books and manuscripts that have been out of print for ages. Just when I thought I knew almost everything about some of my favorite plants, this book revealed a wealth of information about their long lost histories.

Dainty young thing...........2000-10-08

Bobby Ward, a retired environmental scientist who now edits and writes books on gardening, has assembled a nice compendium on selected literature and folk lore associated with some of our most beloved flowers. He covers Daffodils (Wordsworth) and Pansies (that's for thoughts) and other familiar blossoms, as well as a few not so familiar plants.

My favorite essay is about the Honeysuckle, literally a flower from which one sucks honey. Also known as Woodbine, this little plant has over 180 species, primarily native to the Northern Hemisphere, but there is at least one that grows in England ... "I know a place where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite overcanopied with luscious Woodbine.." where of Tatania the Queen of the Fairies sleeps. The Honeysuckle belongs to the genus "Lonicera" in the family "Caprifoliaceae" literally goat's leaves--probably because they loved to eat them.

We learn of the patron saints of gardeners, and specific flowers, like Saint John's Wort named for saints. The Crocus is the Queen, with it's many religious associations ranging from Lupercalia to Saint Valentines Day. Many poets and writers have created verse and prose to honor the little Crocus, harbinger of spring.

Mr. Ward used secondary material to develop his book, so he perpetuates some myths -- pagans were not likely to have built fires to ward off witches and devils since Christians invented the latter long after the pagens came into being. If the local country folk built fires to ward off witches and devils they were practicing a 'Santaria' type religion (mixture of Christian and pagan beliefs).

Mr. Ward edited a book of essays by Elizabeth Lawrence entitled, "A Garden of One's Own" and is a fellow North Carolinian. So I was quite surprised to see that he did not include her very fine book "Through the Garden Gate" in his bibliography. Lawrence's book covers much of the same material found in Ward's book, and she wrote it some 20-30 years earlier.

All in all, this is a nice book, and since it brings together material from a variety of sources it's a good place to start if you're interested in the connections between flora, folk tales, English literature, and Latin names.

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Garden flower folklore
Laura C Martin
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0871067668

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The Ultimate Book of Small Gardens
Graham Rice
Manufacturer: Cassell Illustrated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Big Ideas for Small Gardens

ASIN: 1844035093

Book Description

From an internationally famous writer on horticulture comes the bible on cultivating small gardens. This reference tackles all the problems faced by those whose big ideas keep colliding with the reality of limited space. It provides a master class on design, hard landscaping, choosing essential plants, growing fruits and vegetables, combating pests and diseases, and other common difficulties. Work with a new garden or transform an existing one; learn fresh techniques for improving and fertilizing the soil; plant with a “garden theme”; and use the illustrated directory to choose the best trees, shrubs, and flowers—all to create your own miniature Eden.

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A book of garden flowers,
Margaret McKenny
Manufacturer: The Macmillan Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Flower children: The little cousins of the field and garden

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The old version is better
Flower Children: The LIttle Cousins of the Field and Garden
Fantastic Flower Children

Flower children: The little cousins of the field and garden
Elizabeth Gordon
Manufacturer: P.F. Volland
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

ASIN: B0008APAES

Book Description

Facsimile editions of classic children's books from the beginning of the 20th century, featuring four-color paintings and poetry that teaches children about nature.

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The old version is better.......2005-05-04

I saw an copy of the 1912 edition (my grandmother's) and wanted to get a copy for my children. I was so happy to find that it was in print again, but so disappointed when the book arrived: the colors in the modern version are off, sometimes entirely wrong, and the quality of the pictures is not as good. The original cover was better, and I wonder how the publisher could make so many mistakes with the colors. A real disappointment, but I hope that another publisher takes it up and reissues it with true colors.
The text is still charming and the basic drawings are fine.

Flower Children: The LIttle Cousins of the Field and Garden.......2001-05-23

This is a very sweet book with wonderful artwork. I purchased the book because of the beautiful cover -- I was looking for ideas on how to decorate my new daughters bedroom. I was delighted when the book came and I read the sweet poetry which describes all the different flowers.

Fantastic Flower Children.......2001-03-23

This is a beautiful little book for any parent or grandparent. First published in 1912 and out of print for a very long time, it is wonderful to see this book again. The illustrations are of flowers with childrens faces and a short verse about each flower. Charming pictures and poetry. I loved this book as a child and love sharing them with my kids.

Flower Fairies of the Garden (Flower Fairies)

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Flower Fairies of the Garden
Revisit the Garden From Your Armchair

Flower Fairies of the Garden (Flower Fairies)
Cicely Mary Barker
Manufacturer: Warne
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0723259933
Release Date: 2008-03-13

Book Description

First published in the 1920s, Cicely Mary Barker's original Flower Fairies books have been loved for generations. Like the pre-Raphaelite painters whom she so admired, Barker believed in re-creating the beauty of nature in art and drawing from life. Her Flower Fairies watercolors have a unique combination of naturalism and fantasy that no imitators have matched. Now newly rejacketed in the style of bestseller Fairyopolis, this new edition makes a perfect gift for a new generation of Flower Fairy fans. The book features poems and full-color illustrations of over 20 flowers and their guardian fairies.

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Flower Fairies of the Garden.......2007-07-27

My granddaughters who are 5 and 7 years are very intrigued with Fairies and their stories. They love the poetry in this whole series of books by Cicely Barker. I love reading these books with and to them. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful and inspire their imaginations.

Revisit the Garden From Your Armchair.......2000-04-13

I love Cicely Mary Barker's work. The drawings are botanically accurate, with a subtle artistic softness that makes them very pleasurable. I've been an avid gardener for over 15 years. Working in the garden regularly, you see the flowers, feel the seasons, and become part of the cycle of nature. The art and poetry in Flower Fairies of the Garden captures the essence of that experience.

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1890. This work contains a series of essays which might prove acceptable to many readers, whether of grave or lively temperament. What are called "instructive" books, meaning thereby "morally" instructive, are generally dull reading as is proverbially a book containing nothing but jests. In these pages, Clouston believed wisdom and wit, the didactic and the diverting, will be found in tolerably fair proportions.

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