Coffee Break Collection 19 - Plants and Flowers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Coffee Break Collection 19 - Plants and Flowers, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Coffee Break Collection 19 - Plants and Flowers by Various. Read in English by BettyB; Garth Burton; Lynne T; Craig Campbell; KevinS; Josh Kibbey; Stefan Von Blon; Patrick Wallace; Colleen McMahon The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes long, or less -- perfect for coffee breaks, commutes and work outs. Essays, prose, fiction, non-fiction, poetry -- who knows what gems will be uncovered? Spring is the time we see plants and flowers, dormant over the cold winter months, burst into life; and they make their appearance here. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Coffee Break Collection 19 - Plants and Flowers
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 1:12:17

Catalogue topics

• plants
• pollen
• flowers
• garden
• fruit

Track guide

1. 01 - A-B-C of Vegetable Gardening by Eben E. Rexford — 5:47
2. 02 - A Beautiful Fruit Garden by Gertrude Jekyll — 8:03
3. 03 - The Beauty of the Pollen by S. Leonard Bastin — 8:10
4. 04 - The Crocus's Song by Hannah Flagg Gould — 1:38
5. 05 - The Differences of Sexes in Plants by Francis Bacon from Sylva Sylvarum — 2:14
6. 06 - Experiment Solitary Touching The Melioration of Tobacco, From Sylva Sylvarum; or, A natural history in Ten Centuries Francis Bacon — 2:52
7. 07 - 'Farewell to Spring,' a chapter from Stories of Wild Flowers Children Love by Katherine Chandler — 7:45
8. 08 - Fern Life by Willis Boyd Allen — 4:07
9. 09 - The Flower by Alfred Tennyson — 2:00
10. 10 - Flower in the Crannied Wall by Alfred Tennyson — 1:13
11. 11 - The Garden by Andrew Marvell — 4:18
12. 12 - On Peonies by Arthur Gray Staples — 5:39
13. 13 - Prayer of the Flowers by Lord Dunsany — 1:55
14. 14 - Talks about Flowers by Mrs. M.D. Wellcome — 9:56
15. 15 - Do Vegetables Have Ideas of External Things? By Erasmus Darwin — 6:40

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