In the United States the first appearance of the language of flowers in print was in the writings of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, a French-American naturalist, who wrote on-going features under the title "The School of Flora", from 1827 through 1828, in the weekly Saturday Evening Post and the monthly "Casket; or Flowers of Literature, Wit, and Sentiment". These pieces contained the botanic, English, and French names of the plant, a description of the plant, an explanation of its Latin names, and the flower's emblematic meaning. However, the first books on floriography were Elizabeth Wirt's "Flora's Dictionary" and Dorothea Dix's "The Garland of Flora", both of which were published in 1829, though Wirt's book had been issued in an unauthorized edition in 1828.