During its peak in the United States, the language of flowers attracted the attention of popular female writers and editors. Sarah Josepha Hale, longtime editor of the "Ladies' Magazine" and co-editor of "Godey's Lady's Book", edited Flora's Interpreter in 1832; it continued in print through the 1860s. Catharine H. Waterman Esling wrote a long poem titled "The Language of Flowers", which first appeared in 1839 in her own language of flowers book, "Flora's Lexicon"; it continued in print through the 1860s. Lucy Hooper, an editor, novelist, poet, and playwright, included several of her flower poems in "The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry", first published in 1841. Frances Sargent Osgood, a poet and friend of Edgar Allan Poe, first published "The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry" in 1841, and it continued in print through the 1860s. Osgood edited a special gift book, "The Floral Offering", in 1847. Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo, author of several flower books, was associate editor of the Universalist monthly "The Ladies' Repository" in Boston from 1839 to 1842. Her book, "The Flower Vase", was published in 1844. She edited the books "Fables of Flora" in 1844 and "The Floral Fortune Teller" in 1846. C. M. Kirtland is probably Caroline Matilda Kirkland, editor of the "Union Magazine of Literature and Art" from 1847 to 1851 and the Unitarian weekly "Christian Inquirer" from 1847 to 1852. First published in 1848, Kirkland's "Poetry of Flowers" continued to be in print at least until 1886. One of the more comprehensive books, its 522 pages contain an extensive dictionary and numerous flower poems.