"New England poet... Emily Dickinson died... in May 1886... she was laid in her coffin... with vanilla-scented heliotrope, a lady's slipper orchid...
her garden at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, was locally famous... Judith Farr explains in 'The Gardens of Emily Dickinson'. She was... a knowledgable gardener... Farr's book includes... chapter identifying the flowers Dickinson cultivated, with instructions for growing them... Dickinson... as a teenager assembled her own herbarium of pressed flowers, in which 424 specimens were labelled in... Latin. The herbarium survives in the Houghton Library at Harvard University; a facsimile has now been published, and the images from it are available online. ... 'Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: A Facsimile Edition' is published by the Belknap Press... 'The Gardens of Emily Dickinson' by Judith Farr, with Louise Carter, is published by Harvard University Press... Emily Dickinson's Herbarium online: - start at the Harvard College Library website hcl.harvard.edu and click "Hollis Catalog". In the new window, click "Expanded search" and search on "Emily" and "Dickinson" and "Herbarium". In the results page, click "Internet Link" and scroll through the book. " URL : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/main.jhtml?xml=/gardening/2007/06/29/gemily29.xml ************* Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
