Books: Flower Love

FLOWER PHANTOMS—Ronald Fraser—Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Delicate, sensuous Judy made her lover liken her to the loveliest flowers, exotic ones with iridescent stems and golden caps rather than the sturdy blossoms of the fields. She drank in his literary phrases as the plants in her hothouse drank the warm, steamy air under glass. Until she really believed that her true relations should be with fern and tree and flower, not with her practical family and tiresome, boreal Roland. After charmingly imagined conversations with a philosophical water-lily and passionate adventures with an Oriental...

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