Talks About Flowers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Talks About Flowers, credited to Mary Decker Wellcome, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Talks About Flowers by Mary Decker Wellcome. Read in English by Christine Lehman; Rebekah Howard; Lenore Vinka; Kathleen Moore; Larry Wilson; BettyB; Devorah Allen; Brandon Weston; sunshinealways; chocmuse; tmeritt; boatharbor 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Talks About Flowers
• Author credits: Mary Decker Wellcome
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 5:25:06

Catalogue topics

• plants
• Gardening
• horticulture
• perennials
• houseplants
• floriculture

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 00 - Preface — 2:45
2. 01 - Introduction — 6:03
3. 02 - A Talk to Farmers' Wives — 7:19
4. 03 - A Talk About — 6:54
5. 04 - A Talk About Stocking the Garden — 9:55
6. 05 - Phlox Drummondii — 4:29
7. 06 - Verbenas — 8:17
8. 07 - Petunias — 4:54
9. 08 - A Talk About Pansies — 6:57
10. 09 - Asters — 3:48
11. 10 - Balsams — 3:30
12. 11 - A Talk About Geraniums — 12:57
13. 12 - A Talk About Begonias — 7:50
14. 13 - Gloxinia, Tuberose — 9:14
15. 14 - A Talk About Gladiolus — 11:58
16. 15 - A Talk About Pelargoniums — 18:31
17. 16 - A Talk About Fuchsias — 14:09
18. 17 - A Talk About Coleuses — 14:19
19. 18 - Ornamental Foliage Plants — 31:21
20. 19 - A Talk About Primroses — 6:45
21. 20 - Carnations and Picotees — 11:44
22. 21 - A Talk About Climbers — 20:45
23. 22 - Thoughts in My Garden—A Poem — 2:00
24. 23 - A Talk About Several Things — 8:04

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