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Talks About Flowers

Talks About Flowers

by Mrs. M. D. Wellcome

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Author
Wellcome, M. D., Mrs.
Title
Talks About Flowers.
Credits
Produced by Jennifer Linklater, sp1nd and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
SB: Agriculture: Plant culture
Subject
Floriculture
Category
Text
eBook-No.
40534
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40534
Release Date
August 19, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.TALKS ABOUT FLOWERS. BY MRS. M. D. WELLCOME.
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6. — THE WILD GARDEN. —
  7. 7.Untitled
  8. 8. — VERBENAS. — PETUNIAS. —
  9. 9. — MODE OF CULTURE. — ASTERS. — BALSAMS.
  10. 10.Untitled
  11. 11. — BEGONIAS, NOT REX. — TUBEROUS ROOTED BEGONIA. — GLOXINIA. — TUBEROSE.
  12. 12. — NEW HYBRID GLADIOLUS. — GLADIOLUS PURPUREO-AURATUS. — GLADIOLUS GANDAVENSIS. — MODE OF CULTURE. —
  13. 13. — REGAL PELARGONIUMS — FRINGED AND STRIPED PELARGONIUMS. — HYBRID PERPETUAL PELARGONIUMS. — MODE OF CULTURE. —
  14. 14. — ITS HISTORY AND CULTURE. — FUCHSIAS IN THE ISLE OF MAN. — PROPAGATING FUCHSIAS.
  15. 15. — BY ONE OF THEMSELVES.
  16. 16. — CROTONS. — FANCY CALADIUMS. — CALADIUM ESCULENTUM, — ERANTHEMUMS. — MARANTAS. — CANNAS. — DRACÆNA. — DRACÆNA GOLDIANA. — A BIG BEAN STORY.
  17. 17. — THE CHINESE PRIMROSE, — CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. — PERPETUAL BLOOMERS, — THE ORIGIN OF THE FLORIST'S PINK. — DIANTHUS.
  18. 18. — HONEYSUCKLE. — CANARY BIRD FLOWER. — COBŒA SCANDENS. — CLEMATIS. — WISTARIA. — CHINESE WISTARIA AS A STANDARD. —
  19. 19.Untitled
  20. 20. — LAST WORDS OF THE POET HEINE. — THE OLD MAN AND THE FLOWERS. — CONVERTED BY A FLOWER.
  21. 21.Untitled
  22. 22. — SINGLE DAHLIAS. — AMARYLLIS. — HOYA CARNOSA, OR WAX PLANT.
  23. 23. — HELIOTROPE.
  24. 24. — OXALIS.
  25. 25. — "CONSIDER THE LILIES." — LONGIFLORUM LILIES. — DOUBLE WHITE BOUVARDIA, "ALFRED NEUNER." — CAMELLIA JAPONICA.
  26. 26. — MY WINDOW BOX. — HYACINTHS. — INSECTS.
  27. 27.INDEX OF FLORISTS.
  28. 28.AUTHOR'S NOTES.
  29. 29."AN ESSAY ON ROSES." — NOTICES OF THE PRESS. — Transcriber's Note:

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