Wild Flower Guide: Northeastern and Midland United States

Doubleday & Company / The American Garden Guild, 1948. First Edition. Leather . Collectible Very Good/Fair. Signed by Author. 1st Edition (Doubleday - 1948) No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. From private collection, dust cover is in archival mylar. . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Introduction -- * Wild Flower Conservation -- * Glossary -- * Flower Parts -- * Classification ------ 1.) Monocots -- 2.) Illustrations of Monocots -- 3.) Free-Petal Dicots -- 4.) Illustrations of United-Petal Dicots ------ * APPENDIX 1.) Flowers According to Color -- * APPENDIX 2.) Introduced Wild Flowers -- * APPENDIX 3.) An Outline of Plant Ecology -- * APPENDIX 4.) Wild Flower Literature -- * INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . Edgar Theodore Wherry (1885–1982) was an American mineralogist, soil scientist and botanist. He had a deep interest in ferns and Sarracenia. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University preserves many botanical specimens that he collected in Pennsylvania in the 1940s and 1950s. A crowd-sourcing initiative, organized by the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium, was digitizing these records in 2020. In 1964, he was awarded the Mary Soper Pope Memorial Award in botany. The Edgar T. Wherry Award was established in 1989 by the Botanical Society of America for the best paper presented each year in the pteridological section. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.