Ladies' Southern Florist ( signed first printing of new edtion)

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MARY C. RION (1829-1901) was trained at a young age in both plant collecting and gardening. Once she married, Rion found time to indulge her interests but found few books offering advice on preparing and planting flower gardens in her region. Thus, she set out to combine her firsthand knowledge with that of northern gardeners and wrote Ladies' Southern Florist in 1860. A native South Carolinian, JAMES R. COTHRAN is a practicing landscape architect and urban planner in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds degrees from Clemson University, the University of Georgia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as adjunct professor in Georgia State University's Heritage Preservation Program. DEBRA McCOY-MASSEY is currently the vice president for research at the Arthritis Foundation's national office in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds degrees from the University of Georgia and Georgia State University in history. Her interest and research on Mary Rion is the result of graduate work at Georgia State University.