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Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming

Henry Ward Beecher

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The apple has a political economy, and flowers are easier to raise than you fear. Henry Ward Beecher offers warm, wide-ranging talk about fruits, flowers, and farming from a lifelong garden lover. Genial essays that make horticulture feel like conversation. Talk fruit and flowers with one of the era's most beloved voices.

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209 chapters

  1. 1PLEASANT TALK
  2. 2FRUITS, FLOWERS AND FARMING.
  3. 3HENRY WARD BEECHER.
  4. 4PREFATORY.
  5. 5PREFACE
  6. 6TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  7. 7CONTENTS.
  8. 8LATE PAPERS.
  9. 9I.
  10. 10POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE APPLE.
  11. 11II.
  12. 12A FEW FLOWERS EASILY RAISED.
  13. 13III.
  14. 14FLOWER-FARMING.
  15. 15IV.
  16. 16A LETTER FROM THE FARM.
  17. 17V.
  18. 18THE COST OF FLOWERS.

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