Our Vanishing Wildflowers and Other Essays

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

• Edition: First Edition
• Publisher: Watts & Co., London
• Published: 1928
• Length: 86 pages
• Format: Paperback

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

Reviews

• Our Vanishing Wild Flowers The Guardian, July 23, 1928
• Our Vanishing Wildflowers, and Other Essays Times Literary Supplement, June 28, 1928