Parsleys, Fennels & Queen Anne's Lace by Barbara Perry Lawton (9780881928228)
Barbara Perry Lawton Release Date: 01 Jul 2007 Format: Hardcover Pages: 176 Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 9780881928228 ISBN-10: 0881928224
"Parsleys, Fennels, and Queen Anne's Lace" is the gardener's introduction to the characteristics, cultivation, and history of one of the most distinctive families of the plant kingdom. These plants were well known to the Greeks and Romans it was the juice of a member of the umbel family that Socrates was forced to drink and the family was the first to be studied as such botanically, by Robert Morison in 1672. Yet even today the many herbs and ornamentals of this family are not as well known or appreciated as they should be. "Parsleys, Fennels, and Queen Anne's Lace" is for anyone interested in herbs, whether for their culinary value or as ornamentals.