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The Family Kitchen Gardener
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Robert Buist
The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically Am…
Letters from a Prairie Garden
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Edna W. Underwood
The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about th…
Little Wanderers
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Margaret Warner Morley
This book discusses a great variety of plants and their seeds in a simple, yet interesting way that children will enjoy. As the books says, …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050
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Various
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--the …
The World That Couldn't Be
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Clifford D. Simak
Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of natives but they were genderless. How could tribes form with…
The Circular Study
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Anna Katharine Green
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…
The Indian Corn Planter
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indian Corn Planter by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 2…
Seed-Babies
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Margaret Warner Morley
Seed Babies piques the child's interest about how seeds grow. It provides interesting information about seeds in a conversational style bet…
Andrea Wulf The Brother Gardeners Reading
Andrea Wulf The Brother Gardeners Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession 1/5. The Merchant's Tale. Andrea Wulf explores …
Under The Sky In California
Read by David Wales
Charles Francis Saunders
This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This…
Talks About Flowers
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Mary Decker Wellcome
To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonia…
The Basket of Flowers
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Christoph Von Schmid
James is the king's gardener and he deeply enjoys caring for and cultivating flowers. He teaches his daughter Mary many principles of godlin…
Weed or Flower
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Helen Leah Reed
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Weed or Flower by Helen Leah Reed.This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 22, 2019. …
Coffee Break Collection 019 - Plants and Flowers
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Various
The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes lon…
The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2
Read by Peter Dann
Katherine Mansfield
The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042
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Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammett…
The Green World
Read by Phil Chenevert
Hal Clement
The planet was an enigma. Among the thousands of inhabitable planets that had been discovered and visited, Veridis alone seemed to defy the…
The Flowers and the Weeds
Dr. Jeffrey F. Evans
Just as weeds will grow with no work and a good garden needs much gardening so in the Christian life sin grows by doing nothing. Practicing …
The Dust Flower
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…
Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
Read by Peter Yearsley
William Chambers
A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…