CORAL LIVES: LITERATURE, LABOR, & THE MAKING OF AMERICA ACCESSORIES Each old-fashioned bloom is saturated

Each old-fashioned bloom is saturated with a powerful fragrance of citrus blossoms and sweet fruit

especially the ways in which the plants and structures engage the imagination of visitors

and stories from Mexico

If you grow roses you have no doubt encountered any manner of problems affecting your plants - from diseases and insects to browsing animals

from their ceremonial use in palaces and temples to their functional and decorative use in ordinary Japanese homes

CORAL LIVES: LITERATURE, LABOR, & THE MAKING OF AMERICA ACCESSORIES Each old-fashioned bloom is saturatedA literary and cultural history of coralas an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor. Today, coral and the human caused threats to coral reef ecosystems symbolize our ongoing planetary crisis. In the nineteenth century, coral represented something else; as a recurring motif in American literature and culture, it shaped popular ideas about human society and politics. In