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This interesting and slightly unusual book takes up the subject of the effect that changes in the relationship between humans and plants have had in the wider cultural sphere. Essays range all over the world, from the relgious symblism of the rose in medieval Spain, to the political significance of cherry gardening in Ancient Japan via the economic and cultural importance of qat and coffee in the Yemen. The book is divided into 3 sections: Ancient linkages between culture, botany and horticulture; Linkages between Horticultural and political changes; and horticultural contributions to economic and cultural changes.