<p>Completely new: a translation of the Italian book Il Libro delle Peonie in which, for the first time in the West, 152 varieties of tree peonies are described and illustrated In the Far East the tree peony is the flower at the head of the floral hierarchy, and is an important part of Chinese and Japanese cultural heritage: it is portrayed with very great frequency in lacquers, paintings, textiles, and porcelain as well as in poetry. In the wild it is found only in the mountains of China that border Tibet, India and Burma. This is the first time that photographs and descriptions of tree peonies found by the author growing wild on the Chinese mountains have been published. Following in the steps of the great plant hunters of the Victorian era, he found tree peonies in their natural habitat where they had not been seen by westerners since the beginning of the twentieth century. The tree peony is difficult to propagate but, once established, it is practically indestructible, with flowers among the most spectacular that nature has given us. Greatly fashionable at the end of the nineteenth century, it was defined as the noblest of plants. 128 pages, 242 colour photographs</p>

The Book of Tree Peonies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Osti, Gian Lupo

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The Book of Tree Peonies

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