Frank Kingdon-Ward the Last of the Great Plant Hunters.

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Frank Kingdon-Ward the Last of the Great Plant Hunters.Charles Lyte. Frank Kingdon Ward combined botany with the exploration of the wild mountain regions of North Burma, China and Tibet. Many well known garden plants were found and introduced by him, most famously the Tibetan blue poppy, Meconopsis betonicifolia, as well as many beautiful lilies and fine rhododendrons. This is his story. John Murray Publishers, London, 1989. ISBN 9780719547355 Hardback with dust jacket. 218 pages. SECONDHAND. Fine

status and cultivation

and by the shifting fortunes of the principal export crops

Photography by Juliet Nicholas

It features many of the well known personalities involved

A comprehensive account of all the vascular New Zealand native plants except the monocotyledons

Edited by D

Demonstrates the place of wild plants in urban vegetation and how they impinge on urban life

Line illustrations and colour photographs

The story of life on earth is always compelling

There are drawings of the fruit and seeds of all species

Includes foldout panoramic photographs bound in at the rear

The complex story of the introduction of the myriad of plants and animals since the arrival of the first human settlers in the country