Table of Contents:
  • Tastes, traditions, and trade, 1870-1970
  • Favored flowers : growers and traders, 1870-1970
  • Fresh flowers : global flower growing, 1970-2005
  • State and structure : floriculture in a global system
  • Cultivating the global garden : local growers in a global system
  • Specialty and abundance : middlemen in a changing system
  • Risk and relationships : middlemen strategies
  • Self and signs : flower consumers.