Our Vanishing Wildflowers and Other Essays

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