{"product_id":"2940014917063","title":"Talks about Flowers","description":"Talks about Flowers by Mrs. M. D. Wellcome\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eDexter Smith Poem\u003cbr\u003ePreface.\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. A Talk to Farmers’ Wives.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. A Talk About “The Wild Garden.”\u003cbr\u003eThe Wild Garden.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Make Home Beautiful.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. A Talk About Stocking the Garden.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Phlox Drummondii.\u003cbr\u003eVerbenas.\u003cbr\u003ePetunias.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Pansies.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. A Talk About Pansies.\u003cbr\u003eMode of Culture.\u003cbr\u003eAsters.\u003cbr\u003eBalsams.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. A Talk About Geraniums.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. A Talk About Begonias.\u003cbr\u003eBegonias, Not Rex.\u003cbr\u003eTuberous Rooted Begonia.\u003cbr\u003eGloxinia.\u003cbr\u003eTuberose.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. A Talk About Gladiolus.\u003cbr\u003eNew Hybrid Gladiolus.\u003cbr\u003eGladiolus Purpureo-Auratus.\u003cbr\u003eGladiolus Gandavensis.\u003cbr\u003eMode of Culture.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. The Use of Flowers.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. A Talk About Pelargoniums.\u003cbr\u003eRegal Pelargoniums\u003cbr\u003eFringed and Striped Pelargoniums.\u003cbr\u003eHybrid Perpetual Pelargoniums.\u003cbr\u003eMode of Culture.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. The Rhodora.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. A Talk About Fuchsias.\u003cbr\u003eIts History and Culture.\u003cbr\u003eFuchsias in the Isle of Man.\u003cbr\u003ePropagating Fuchsias.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. A Talk About Coleuses.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Ornamental Foliage Plants.\u003cbr\u003eCrotons.\u003cbr\u003eFancy Caladiums.\u003cbr\u003eCaladium Esculentum.\u003cbr\u003eEranthemums.\u003cbr\u003eMarantas.\u003cbr\u003eCannas.\u003cbr\u003eDracæna.\u003cbr\u003eDracæna Goldiana.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. A Talk About Primroses.\u003cbr\u003eCarnations and Picotees.\u003cbr\u003ePerpetual Bloomers.\u003cbr\u003eThe Origin of the Florist’s Pink.\u003cbr\u003eDianthus.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. A Talk About Climbers.\u003cbr\u003eHoneysuckle.\u003cbr\u003eCanary Bird Flower.\u003cbr\u003eCoboea Scandens.\u003cbr\u003eClematis.\u003cbr\u003eWistaria.\u003cbr\u003eChinese Wistaria as a Standard.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. Thoughts in My Garden.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. A Talk About Several Things.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. The Love of Flowers.\u003cbr\u003eLast Words of the Poet Heine.\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Man and the Flowers.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. A Talk About Abutilons.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. A Talk About Dahlias.\u003cbr\u003eSingle Dahlias.\u003cbr\u003eAmaryllis.\u003cbr\u003eHoya Carnosa, or Wax Plant.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. Among My Flowers.\u003cbr\u003eHeliotrope.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25. A Talk About Cyclamens and Oxalis.\u003cbr\u003eOxalis.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 26. A Talk About Lilies.\u003cbr\u003eLongiflorum Lilies.\u003cbr\u003eDouble White Bouvardia, “Alfred Neuner.”\u003cbr\u003eCamellia Japonica.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 27. The Ingathering of the Flowers.\u003cbr\u003eMy Window Box.\u003cbr\u003eHyacinths.\u003cbr\u003eInsects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEncouraged 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, intending it to be made up chiefly of those articles revised and enlarged for this purpose; but after entering upon this work, we found so little that was adapted for use, nearly every page has been written while the sheets were passing through the press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore we were aware, the printed matter had exceeded our proposed limits, and we were obliged to enlarge the work by additional pages, and even then omit our chapter of “Floricultural Notes,” for we wished to put the book at a low price, that it might reach the masses. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt may be deemed strange that we should omit from a work of this character a “Talk” about the Queen of Flowers, but the subject was so full that we thought best to devote the space to other varieties and refer our readers to our recently published “Essay on Roses,”--advertised in another part of this work--in which they will find the subject fully treated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe would here acknowledge our obligation to Mr. James Vick for the beautiful Bouquet of Flowers which constitutes our Frontispiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMRS. M. D. WELLCOME.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYarmouth, Me., June 9, 1881.","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152922886384,"sku":"2940014917063","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014917063","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}