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Long before Google and Facebook, young women had no trouble finding out if the new man in town had a wife. They just looked at his buttons. In medieval times, buttons were made of cloth, and if they ...

Common names for plants often lead us astray. Go shopping in seed catalogs for bachelor’s buttons and you are liable to end up with a cool-season, northern European weed also known as corn flower ...

DOUBLE daisies, also known as bachelor's buttons, are flowering away merrily these days, doing their best to brighten gardens. This is a really old-fashioned cottage garden flower, but still popular ...