Talks About Flowers
Mary Decker Wellcome
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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 | 2:45 | Read by Christine Lehman |
| Introduction | 6:03 | Read by Rebekah Howard |
| A Talk to Farmers' Wives | 7:19 | Read by Christine Lehman |
| A Talk About "The Wild Garden" | 6:54 | Read by Lenore Vinka |
| A Talk About Stocking the Garden | 9:55 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Phlox Drummondii | 4:29 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Verbenas | 8:17 | Read by BettyB |
| Petunias | 4:54 | Read by BettyB |
| A Talk About Pansies | 6:57 | Read by Rebekah Howard |
| Asters | 3:48 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Balsams | 3:30 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| A Talk About Geraniums | 12:57 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| A Talk About Begonias | 7:50 | Read by Devorah Allen |
| Gloxinia, Tuberose | 9:14 | Read by BettyB |
| A Talk About Gladiolus | 11:58 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| A Talk About Pelargoniums | 18:31 | Read by BettyB |
| A Talk About Fuchsias | 14:09 | Read by BettyB |
| A Talk About Coleuses | 14:19 | Read by Brandon Weston |
| Ornamental Foliage Plants | 31:21 | Read by sunshinealways |
| A Talk About Primroses | 6:45 | Read by sunshinealways |
| Carnations and Picotees | 11:44 | Read by BettyB |
| A Talk About Climbers | 20:45 | Read by chocmuse |
| Thoughts in My Garden—A Poem | 2:00 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| A Talk About Several Things | 8:04 | Read by BettyB |
| The Love of Flowers | 4:38 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| A Talk About Abutilons | 10:55 | Read by BettyB |
| A Talk About Dahlias | 13:43 | Read by BettyB |
| Amaryllis | 3:48 | Read by Devorah Allen |
| Hoya Carnosa or Wax Plant | 2:04 | Read by tmeritt |
| Among My Flowers | 11:16 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| A Talk About Cyclamens and Oxalis | 8:15 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| A Talk About Lilies | 10:17 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Double Bouvardia | 3:55 | Read by BettyB |
| Camellia Japonica | 2:55 | Read by BettyB |
| Azalea | 3:23 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| The Ingathering of the Flowers | 3:05 | Read by boatharbor |
| My Window Box | 3:29 | Read by boatharbor |
| Hyacinths | 4:36 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Insects | 4:19 | Read by BettyB |
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