This book provides a complete pictorial list of plants and flowers mentioned and
used by Tagore in his lyrics as enlisted in unabridged edition of
'Gitabitan'(Akhanda Gitabitan). Plants are arranged in this volume in Bengali
alphabetical order with English names in parenthesis. A short description of
each plant and its floral characters, its use in public welfare, literary and
mythological background, if any, and its values in public life have been
incorporated in the text in simple style instead of going into serious, weighty
scientific names and detailed background. To meet botanical and horticultural
curiosities about such families, flowering time and flower color are given in a
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