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Our Vanishing Wildflowers and Other Essays (Second Edition)

Henry S. Salt, Sir Maurice Abbot-Anderson (Preface)

  • Edition: Second Edition
  • Publisher: Watts & Co., London
  • Published: 1928
  • Length: 86
  • Format: Paperback
  • First Edition
  • Sir Maurice Abbot-Anderson (Preface)
  • 1928 Watts & Co., London, Paperback, 86 pages

Summary

The first edition was published in May 1928 and the second edition was published in September of the same year.

The book is dedicated to Sir Maurice Abbot-Anderson, C.V.O, M.B., ‘True Friend of the Wildflowers”.

Content

  • Preface
  • Our Vanishing Wildflowers
  • The Cure?
  • The Need of Sanctuaries
  • New Introductions
  • The Bump of Destructiveness
  • A Botanist's Garden
  • Fortune's Freaks
  • Treasures of a Sandpit
  • Pastures New
  • The Well-Beloved
  • The Long-Sought
  • Some Lowly Kinds
  • Conradeship of the Wild
  • Botanical Literature
  • The Sensibility of Plants
  • The Art of Collecting
  • An Afterword