Talks About Flowers
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1881
- Pages
- 140
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Preface
2:45 -
Introduction
6:03 -
A Talk to Farmers' Wives
7:19 -
A Talk About "The Wild Garden"
6:54 -
A Talk About Stocking the Garden
9:55 -
Phlox Drummondii
4:29 -
Verbenas
8:17 -
Petunias
4:54 -
A Talk About Pansies
6:57 -
Asters
3:48 -
Balsams
3:30 -
A Talk About Geraniums
12:57 -
A Talk About Begonias
7:50 -
Gloxinia, Tuberose
9:14 -
A Talk About Gladiolus
11:58 -
A Talk About Pelargoniums
18:31 -
A Talk About Fuchsias
14:09 -
A Talk About Coleuses
14:19 -
Ornamental Foliage Plants
31:21 -
A Talk About Primroses
6:45 -
Carnations and Picotees
11:44 -
A Talk About Climbers
20:45 -
Thoughts in My Garden - A Poem
2:00 -
A Talk About Several Things
8:04 -
The Love of Flowers
4:38 -
A Talk About Abutilons
10:55 -
A Talk About Dahlias
13:43 -
Amaryllis
3:48 -
Hoya Carnosa or Wax Plant
2:04 -
Among My Flowers
11:16 -
A Talk About Cyclamens and Oxalis
8:15 -
A Talk About Lilies
10:17 -
Double Bouvardia
3:55 -
Camellia Japonica
2:55 -
Azalea
3:23 -
The Ingathering of the Flowers
3:05 -
My Window Box
3:29 -
Hyacinths
4:36 -
Insects
4:19
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About this book
Small flower beds tended by their owners are the starting point for Mrs. M. D. Wellcome's informal gardening handbook. Addressing beginners and amateurs, she explains her plans to discuss seeds, garden arrangement, bulbs, climbing plants and window gardens. Close observation matters as much as cultivation: a simple magnifying glass reveals the details of blossoms, while aphids attract her patient attention. Her advice to farmers' wives presents a few minutes among plants as welcome recreation during household work.
Published in 1881, the volume brings growing advice together with verse and reflections on the religious meaning of flowers. The discussion of ornamental foliage describes leaf shapes, colors and contrasting markings, with notes on soil, warmth and watering for plants such as Dieffenbachia. These pages offer readers of gardening history a view of the plants admired in a home garden and the practical language used to explain their care.
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Book facts
- Author
- Mrs. M. D. Wellcome
- First published
- 1881
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 140
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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- BettyB, Kathleen Moore, Larry Wilson and others