Sweet Violets

Sweet Violets

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2012

Runtime

0h 40m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Sweet Violets

Director

Tobe Carey

Description

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.