"I am not a skilled florist, my experience is limited; I am only a student in the lower classes of floriculture, but I dearly love my lessons."
Originally serialized in the Boston Journal, Portland Transcript, and leading floricultural journals — then gathered into this volume. Twenty-nine pages covering every flower from the Wild Garden to Lilies, including the remarkable Dreer's New Hybrid Coleuses. Public domain text from Project Gutenberg #40534.
"So superb are some of the recent Coleuses, Verschaffeltii, we fear, will have to retire still further into private life. Being quite advanced in years, we presume he will not regret this."
— The plant Verschaffeltii, speaking in first person · 1881
