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Sweet Violets

Sweet Violets Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 01/01/2012
  • Duration : 40 minutes
  • Director: Tobe Carey

Overview:

In the Gilded Age and beyond, high fashion decreed that violets were the flower of choice for Valentine's Day, Easter, and a fragrant corsage. At its height, in the years before World War I, Rhinebeck, New York, growers shipped millions of sweet violets (viola odorata) to New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and beyond.

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