Wells, Diana

Provides a short history and illustrations of one hundred common flowers, from abelias to zinnias.

This work is an "uncommon history" of trees. Alphabetical entries cover tree and leaf descriptions, their products, where the trees are located geographically, where they got their common names, people who described the trees or transported them and made them popular, and folklore and stories about the particular trees.

Selections from the works of twenty-eight African-American writers reflecting their dreams of civil rights and freedom.