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Myths and legends about flowers

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Myths and legends about flowers
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In the book of the famous writer and botanist N. Zolotnitsky, written at the beginning of the last century, full-fledged and most interesting legends about flowers, covering the history of different peoples and different centuries. Here you will find ancient myths and beliefs of the northern Germans and Slavs, legends of China and Japan, the love story of Napoleon and Josephine, Henry IV and a simple shepherdess, learn about the war of the Scarlet and White Rose, about the tulip fever in Holland, about the "cult of the White Rose", invented by Nicholas I for his wife Alexandra Fedorovna, read tales of elves sleeping in the cups of flowers, mermaids, weaving water lilies into their tresses... - many beautiful myths and legends, in which, as in a drop of water, reflects the history of mankind. This book presents selected chapters from the work of N. Zolotnitsky, telling about the most popular flowers: roses, lilies, carnations, peonies, tulips ...
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