The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore, credited to Ida Dandridge Bennett, 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 The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore, by Ida Dandridge Bennett. Read by Librivox volunteer readers. This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and explains how to grow and care for the traditional garden flowering plants, bulbs, trees, and shrubs. There are sections covering all aspects of ornamental gardens including water gardens and caring for house plants in the winter. The author has lots of unexpected but good advice in her chapter of Don’ts, for example: "Don’t supply with cut flowers, plants and the like, people who spend more money for unnecessary luxuries than you do for your whole garden, and then tell you how foolish you are to spend so much time and money, and work so hard for your flowers." As this shows, the author is at times as colorful as the flowers in this informative book (Summary by A.L. Gramour)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore
• Author credits: Ida Dandridge Bennett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 6:26:11

Catalogue topics

• gardening
• flowers
• horticulture
• landscaping
• perennials
• houseplants

Track guide

1. 01- The Location and Arrangement of the Garden — 21:41
2. 02-Soils — 9:51
3. 03-Fertilizers — 10:03
4. 04-The Hotbed, Cold-Frame and Sand-Box — 17:09
5. 05-Purchasing of Seeds — 18:32
6. 06-Starting Seeds in Flats — 7:11
7. 07-Transplanting and Repotting — 14:17
8. 08-House-Plants from Seeds — 37:40
9. 09-Outside Window-Boxes — 13:38
10. 10-Various Annuals from Seed — 45:28
11. 11-Vines — 24:04
12. 12-Ornamental Foliage Plants from Seed — 6:57
13. 13-Bulbous and Tuberous-Rooted Plants — 29:49
14. 14-Aquatics — 11:22
15. 15-The Care of the Summer Rose-Bed — 8:40
16. 16-The Hardy Lily-Bed — 9:47
17. 17-The Care of Cannas, Caladiums, Dahlias, and Other Bulbs During Winter — 16:53
18. 18-Hardy Shrubs and Plants for Fall Planting — 11:22
19. 19-Winter Protection — 6:50
20. 20-The Care of House-Plants in Winter — 13:04
21. 21-Common and English Names of Flowers — 21:52
22. 22-Blooming Season of Various Trees, Shrubs, and Plants — 10:00
23. 23-A Chapter of Odds and Ends — 11:07
24. 24-A Chapter of Don'ts — 8:59

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