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Coffee Break Collection 019 - Plants and Flowers

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Read by BettyB, Garth Burton, Lynne T, Craig Campbell, KevinS, Josh Kibbey, Stefan Von Blon, Patrick Wallace and Colleen McMahon · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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