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Taming the Potted Beast: The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-So-Humble Houseplant Eugenia Bone But in a world dominatedThe colorful, peculiar history of the houseplant from ancient Rome to Victorian England to Instagram a botanical adventure full of histrionic highs, devastating lows, and sensational turning points along the way. From the hanging gardens of Babylon to that fiddle leaf fig in your living room, houseplants have been humanity's companions for a millennia. Taming the Potted Beast explores the history of our air purifying friends with an entertaining