Flowers and herbs of early America. 2008. illus. col. photogr. XI, I, 292 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal.These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in Americas colonial and early Federal gardens. Drawing on years of archival research and field trials in Colonial Williamsburgs gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, Lawrence Griffith documents fifty-six species of flowers and herbs and provides details on how they were cultivated and used. For each plant, an elegant period hand-colored engraving, watercolor, or woodcut is presented along with glorious new photographs by Barbara Temple Lombardi.The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a not-for-profit educational institution that operates the worlds largest living history museum. Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.