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Author
Publisher
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 170 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nineteenth-century entrepreneur's bold, innovative marketing helped transform flower gardens into one of America's favorite hobbies. There is much in this sin-plagued world of ours; and, had we no flowers, I believe existence would be hard to be born. So states a customer's 1881 letter-one of thousands James Vick regularly received. Vick's business, selling flower seeds through the mail, wasn't unique, but it was wildly successful because he understood...
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