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Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming

by Henry Ward Beecher

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  1. 1Prefatory
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Late Papers
  4. 4II — A Few Flowers Easily Raised
  5. 5III — Flower-Farming
  6. 6IV — A Letter From the Farm
  7. 7V — The Cost of Flowers
  8. 8VI — Haying
  9. 9VII — The Value of Robins
  10. 10VIII — Sounds of Trees
  11. 11IX — Unveiled Nonsense
  12. 12X — Natural Order of Flowers
  13. 13XI — Roses
  14. 14XII — Chestnuts
  15. 15XIII — Green Peas
  16. 16XIV — Hens
  17. 17XV — Farming
  18. 18XVI — Gardening Under Difficulties
  19. 19XVII — Corn
  20. 20XVIII — Dandelions
  21. 21XIX — How to Beautify Homes
  22. 22XX — Birch and Aspen
  23. 23XXI — Autumn
  24. 24XXII — Plant Trees!
  25. 25XXIII — Farewell to “Summer Rest”
  26. 26Fruit, Flowers and Farming
  27. 27Almanac for the Year
  28. 28Educated Farmers
  29. 29An Acre of Words About Aker
  30. 30Farmers’ Library
  31. 31Nine Mistakes
  32. 32Agricultural Societies
  33. 33Shiftless Tricks
  34. 34Electro-Culture
  35. 35Single-Crop Farming
  36. 36Improved Breeds of Hogs and Cattle
  37. 37Absorbent Qualities of Flour
  38. 38Portrait of an Anti-Book-Farmer
  39. 39Good Breeds of Cows
  40. 40Cutting and Curing Grass
  41. 41Country and City
  42. 42Lime Upon Wheat
  43. 43Culture of Hops
  44. 44White Clover
  45. 45Plowing Corn
  46. 46Clean Out Your Cellars
  47. 47When Is Haying Over?
  48. 48Laying Down Land to Grass
  49. 49Theory of Manure
  50. 50Fodder for Cattle
  51. 51The Science of Bad Butter
  52. 52Cincinnati, the Queen City
  53. 53Care of Animals in Winter
  54. 54Winter Nights for Reading
  55. 55Feathers
  56. 56Nail Up Your Bugs
  57. 57Ashes and Their Use
  58. 58Hard Times
  59. 59Acclimating a Plow
  60. 60Scour Your Plows Bright!
  61. 61Plow Till It Is Dry, and Plow Till It Is Wet
  62. 62Stirring the Soil
  63. 63Subsoil Plowing
  64. 64Fire-Blight and Winter Killing
  65. 65Winter Talk
  66. 66“Shut Your Mouth”
  67. 67Spring Work on the Farm
  68. 68Spring Work in the Garden
  69. 69Fall Work in the Garden
  70. 70Guarding Cherry-Trees From Cold
  71. 71Shade-Trees
  72. 72A Plea for Health and Floriculture
  73. 73Keeping Young Pigs in Winter
  74. 74Sweet Potatoes
  75. 75Management of Bottom-Lands
  76. 76Cultivation of Wheat
  77. 77Practical Use of Leaves
  78. 78Spring Work for Public-Spirited Men
  79. 79Farmers and Farming Scenes in the West
  80. 80Ornamental Shrubs
  81. 81Garden Work for August
  82. 82Pulling Off Potato Blossoms
  83. 83Blading and Topping Corn
  84. 84Maple-Sugar
  85. 85Geological Definitions
  86. 86Draining Wet Lands
  87. 87O Dear! Shall We Ever Be Done Lying?
  88. 88Care of Stock in Winter
  89. 89Deep Planting
  90. 90Corn and Millet for Fodder
  91. 91Seed Saving
  92. 92Rhubarb
  93. 93Peas
  94. 94Plant Shade-Trees
  95. 95Hot-Beds
  96. 96Original Recipes
  97. 97Cooking Vegetables
  98. 98Farmers, Take a Hint
  99. 99Mixing Paint, and Laying It on
  100. 100Garden Weeds
  101. 101Lucerne
  102. 102Family Government
  103. 103Garden Seeds
  104. 104Farmers’ Gardens
  105. 105Early Days of Spring
  106. 106Parlor Flowers
  107. 107A Salt Recipe
  108. 108Culture of Celery
  109. 109Culture of Pie-Plant
  110. 110Sun-Flower Seed
  111. 111April Garden-Work
  112. 112Getting Poor on Rich Land and Rich on Poor Land
  113. 113Getting Ready for Winter
  114. 114Esculent Vegetables
  115. 115Field Root Crops
  116. 116Cultivation of Fruit-Trees
  117. 117A List of Choice Fruits
  118. 118The Nursery Business
  119. 119The Breeding of Fruits
  120. 120Pruning Orchards
  121. 121Slitting the Bark of Trees
  122. 122Downing’s Fruit and Fruit-Trees of America
  123. 123Letter From a. J. Downing
  124. 124Attention to Orchards
  125. 125Wine and Horticulture
  126. 126Do Varieties of Fruit Run Out?
  127. 127The Strawberry Controversy
  128. 128Strawberries
  129. 129Raspberries, Strawberries, Gooseberries and Currants
  130. 130Spring Work in the Orchard
  131. 131Miracles in Fruits
  132. 132Protecting the Roots of Fruit-Trees
  133. 133Pruning Grape Vines
  134. 134Mildew on Grapes
  135. 135How to Obtain Grape Vines
  136. 136Autumnal Management of Fruit-Trees
  137. 137Pears Grafted Upon the Apple Stock
  138. 138Seedlings From Budded Peaches
  139. 139Care of Peach-Trees
  140. 140Renovating Peach-Trees
  141. 141An Apologue or Apple-Logue
  142. 142Select List of Apples
  143. 143Origin of Some Varieties of Fruit
  144. 144The Quince
  145. 145Cutting and Keeping Grafts
  146. 146Frost-Blight
  147. 147Seedling Fruits
  148. 148Time for Pruning
  149. 149Plums and Their Enemies
  150. 150Root Grafting
  151. 151Blight and Insects
  152. 152Apples for Hogs
  153. 153The Flower Garden
  154. 154Preparation of Seed for Sowing
  155. 155Sowing Flower Seeds — Transplanting
  156. 156Parlor Plants and Flowers in Winter
  157. 157Parlor Flowers and Plants in Winter — (Art. 2.)
  158. 158Protecting Plants in Winter
  159. 159To Preserve Dahlia Roots
  160. 160Hedges
  161. 161Watering Trees, etc.
  162. 162Labels for Trees
  163. 163Transplanting Evergreens
  164. 164Flowers, Ladies, and Angels
  165. 165Horticultural Curiosities
  166. 166The Corn Crop
  167. 167Potato Crop
  168. 168Potting Garden Plants for Winter Use
  169. 169Mary Howitt’s Use of Flowers
  170. 170What Are Flowers Good for?
  171. 171The Blight in the Pear-Tree
  172. 172Progress of Horticulture in Indiana
  173. 173Browne’s American Poultry Yard
  174. 174Reflections on the Close of the Year

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