A Garden of Words, Paperback - Martha Barnette
" --Calvin Ahlgren, San Francisco Chronicle. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet--but why do we call it a rose? With loving cultivation, the author shows how flower names yield up the fragrance and light stored from the past and tell us whence we came and who we are.Barnette begins with the flower's name and immediately jumps off the neat garden path into the wild underbrush of mythology, history, folk tales and scientific investigation." --Linda Yang, The New York Times Book Review "Martha Barnette's anthology (literally, 'a gathering of flowers') is more than just a garden-variety book of word origins.