Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
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, intending it to be made up chiefl...
I find my Pansies are coming up finely. My bed of Pansies last year from "choicest mixed seed" sown in April, began to bloom in June, and afforded me so much pleasure with their...
12. Part 12_Chalcedonicum_ or _Scarlet Martagon_ is supposed to be the "Lily of the field" mentioned in the Gospel. "It is magnificent, and its intense scarlet is one of the finest shades...
5. Part 5Here we step on disputed ground. Are Geraniums Pelargoniums? Who shall decide when florists disagree? There are eminent names on both sides of the question. Mr. Henry Cannell of...
4. Part 4There are many varieties of the Rex family; some have brilliant colors in their leaves, others are thickly covered with short hairs. These are more difficult to manage, and requ...
2. Part 2The beautiful Coleuses, Achyranthes and Alternanthera, with their richly colored leaves, and Pyrethrums with their vivid green lancelated foliage, are very effective for this pu...
9. Part 9A writer says of this plant: "The Coboea is an old favorite and it is worthy of remark that but few of the novelties introduced of late years can equal some of the old favorites...
6. Part 6The illustration of this Fuchsia in Mr. Cannell's _Floral Guide_ measures two and one-third inches in diameter, and yet we are told that when well grown, the _Champion_ produces...
10. Part 10This species is one of the most desirable of hardy-wooded plants we possess. They are admirable for the house, for the balcony, the piazza, or the border, being handsome in foli...
11. Part 11This plant is a native of tropical Asia, where it is partially parasitical, its roots penetrating the bark of the trees which support it. It was introduced into England in 1802....
7. Part 7Is the most striking and grand of the Ornamental Foliage Plants for the lawn or flower garden. It will grow in any good soil, and is very easy of cultivation. When of full size...
8. Part 8For seed sowing it can be put in pans, boxes or six inch pots. First, put in drainage--I use for this coarse sand--then the coarse siftings of the soil. On this to the depth of...
1. Part 1Encouraged 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 leadi...
13. Part 13Mrs. M. D. Wellcome of Yarmouth, Me., whose pleasant and helpful "Talks About Flowers" are familiar to the readers of _The Journal_, has published in a neat pamphlet, _An Essay...