About this book
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
Chapters (38)
1Introduction
2A Talk to Farmers' Wives
3A Talk About "The Wild Garden"
4A Talk About Stocking the Garden
5Phlox Drummondii
6Verbenas
7Petunias
8A Talk About Pansies
9Asters
10Balsams
11A Talk About Geraniums
12A Talk About Begonias
13Gloxinia, Tuberose
14A Talk About Gladiolus
15A Talk About Pelargoniums
16A Talk About Fuchsias
17A Talk About Coleuses
18Ornamental Foliage Plants
19A Talk About Primroses
20Carnations and Picotees
21A Talk About Climbers
22Thoughts in My Garden—A Poem
23A Talk About Several Things
24The Love of Flowers
25A Talk About Abutilons
26A Talk About Dahlias
27Amaryllis
28Hoya Carnosa or Wax Plant
29Among My Flowers
30A Talk About Cyclamens and Oxalis
31A Talk About Lilies
32Double Bouvardia
33Camellia Japonica
34Azalea
35The Ingathering of the Flowers
36My Window Box
37Hyacinths
38Insects
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