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Talks About Flowers

To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonials of favor with which our Flower Sketches have been received, which have appeared in the Boston Journal, Portland Transcript, and the leading Floricultural journals, we were induced to prepare this volume,..As it is, we are sure that we have given you a great amount of valuable information, and just such as amateurs need, respecting the habits and requirements of those flowers which are best adapted for general cultivation, and in a form specially new and attractive, combining the history and literature of flowers, with description and mode of culture. - Summary by Mrs. Mary D. Wellcome (5 hr 25 min)

Chapters

Preface

Introduction

A Talk to Farmers' Wives

A Talk About "The Wild Garden"

A Talk About Stocking the Garden

Phlox Drummondii

Verbenas

Petunias

A Talk About Pansies

Asters

Balsams

A Talk About Geraniums

A Talk About Begonias

Gloxinia, Tuberose

A Talk About Gladiolus

A Talk About Pelargoniums

A Talk About Fuchsias

A Talk About Coleuses

Ornamental Foliage Plants

A Talk About Primroses

Carnations and Picotees

A Talk About Climbers

Thoughts in My Garden—A Poem

A Talk About Several Things

The Love of Flowers

A Talk About Abutilons

A Talk About Dahlias

Amaryllis

Hoya Carnosa or Wax Plant

Among My Flowers

A Talk About Cyclamens and Oxalis

A Talk About Lilies

Double Bouvardia

Camellia Japonica

Azalea

The Ingathering of the Flowers

My Window Box

Hyacinths

Insects