This is a scarce and highly collectible:

" The Book of Wild Flowers", An introduction to the ways of plant life, together with biographies of 250 representative species and chapters on Our State Flowers and Familiar Grasses. With color plates of 250 Familiar Wild Flowers and Grasses.

In NEARLY MINT condition!!

First Edition, First Printing - Published in 1924 by The National Geographic Society.

Chapter 1: Exploring the mysteries of plant life, by William Joseph Showalter, Assistant editor, National Geographic Magazine.

Chapter 2: Our State Flowers, by Gilbert Grosvenor, President, National Geographic Society.

Chapter 3: Familiar Grasses and thier Flowers, by E.J. Geske and W.J. Showalter.

Chapter 4: Plant Biographies, by William Joseph Showalter.

The AMAZING PLATES: Color Plates from Life, by Mary E. Eaton, of the New York Botanical Garden, and E.J. Geske.

Table 1: The State Flowers and how they have been chosen.

Table 2: The Flower Calendar.

Table 3: Key to flower colors.

Table 4: List of color plates and flower biographies.

Types and Parts of flowers & Index.

This book is an incredible repository of a vast amount of plant information and biographies, as well as 250 AMAZINGLY done, art quality color plates taken from life.

There is not enough room here to show all the plates, so the photos below represent but a scant few and do not do justice to the incredible amount of wondeful plates this book is teeming with.

The VAST list of beautiful Color Plates include: Alfalfa, Amaranth Common, Amsonia Willow, Apple and Blossom, Arbutus Trailing, Arethusa, Arrowhead Common, Aster Eastern Silvery, Aster New England, Aster New York, Avens Purple, Azalea Flame, Barberry European, Bayberry Northern, Beechdrops, Beggar-ticks, bindweed Field, Bindweed Hedge, Bitterroot, Bittersweet American, Black-eyed-susan, Blackhaw, Bladdernut American, Bladderwort Zigzag, Blooming Sally, Bluebells Virginia, Blueberry Early Highbush, Blueberry Highbush, Bluebonnet, Blue-eyed-grass Eastern, Bluegrass Kentucky, bluets, Buckthorn Glossy, Bugloss Vipers, Bunchberry, Burnet American, Bur-reed Branching, Buttercup Swamp, Butterflyweed, Buttonbush Common, Cactus, Cactus Giant, Cardinalflower, carnation Red, Carrionflower, Carrot Common, Cattail Common, Charlock, Checkerbloom, Cherry Black, Chicory, Chokeberries, Clover Red, Cohosh blue, Columbine American, Columbine Colorado, Coneflower Purple, Coralbells, Coralberry, Corncockle, Corydalis Pink, Cranberry, Cranberrybush American, Currant Wax, Daisy Oxeye, Dandelion, Dayflower Common, Daylily tawny, Devilsbit, Dock Curly, dodder Common, Dogwood Flowering, Dogwood Silky, Dutchmans-breeches, Elder American, Evening-primrose Common, Flax Stiff Yellow, Flytrap Venus, Forget-me-not True, Foxglove Fernleaf False, Foxtail Yellow, Garlic Field, Gayfeather, Gentian Closed, Gentian Fringed, Gentian: see Rosegentian, Geranium Wild, Gerardia Holms, Ginseng Dwarf, Goldenclub, Goldenrod Oldfield, Goldmoss, Grass Barnyard, Grass:  see Bluegrass, Grass Goldeye, Grass Orchard, Grass: see Purpletop, Grass: see Redtop, Grass: see Ryegrass, Grass: See Timothy, Grass: see Yellow Foxtail, Greenbrier Blueleaf, Greenbrier Roundleaf, Groundcherry Clammy, Hardhack, Harebell, Hawkweed Orange, Hawthorn Downy, Hawthorn Fleshy, Holly American, Hollygrape Oregon, Honeysuckle Trumpet, Hop Common, Horsetail, Iris Blueflag, Ivy Ground, Ivy Poison, Jack-in-the-pulpit, Jessamine Carolina, Joe-pye-weed Rough, Ladyslipper Pink, Ladyslipper Showy, Ladyslipper Small Yellow, Lambkill, Lambs-quarters, Laurel Mountain, Lilac Common, Lily American Turkscap, Lily Blackberry, Lily Canada, Lily: see Daylily, Lily Grays, Lily Sego, Lizardtail Common, Loosetrife Purple, Lotus American, Magnolia Southern, Mallow Low Popply, Mallow: see Rosemallow, Maypop, Mazzard, Meadowbeauty Common, Meadow-parsnip Golden, Milkweed Common, Milkweed Fourleaf, Mistflower, Mistletoe American, Mock-cucumber, Mockorange Lewis, Moonseed Common, Mountain-ash American, Mullein Common, Mullein Moth, Nightshade Bitter, Orange Blossom, Orchid Yellow Fringe, Paintbrush Indian, Painted-cup Narrowleaf, Partridgeberry, Pasqueflower American, Pea Beach, Pea Partridge, Peach Blossom, Pearl Everlasting, Peatpink, Pentstemon Cobaca, Pentstemon Eastern, Phlox Sweet-william, Pickerelweed, Pine White, Pinesap Red, Pink:  see Peatpink, Pitcherplant Common, Plantain Narrowleaf and Rugels, Plum American, Pogonia Rose, Pokeberry Common, Polemonium Creeping, Polygala Fringed, Polygala Orange, Pondweed Nuttalls, Poppy Common California, Pricklepoppy Mexican, Purpletop, Pyxie, Ragweed Great, Raspberry Flowering, Rattlesnake-root, Redtop, Rhododendron Coast, Rhododendron Rosebay, Rose Pasture, Rosegentian, Rosemallow Common, Rosemallow Crimson-eye, Ruellia Hairy, Ryegrass Perennial, Sagebrush, St. Johnswort Common and Golden, Sedge Fraser, Sensitiveplant, Shadblow Downy, Shootingstar Common, Skullcap Hyssop, Skunkcabbage, Snapweed Pale, Snowberry, Snow-on-the-mountain, Sorrel Sheep, Spatterdock Small, Spicebush, Spiderflower, Spiderlily Western, Spiderwort Virginia, Springbeauty Virginia, Strawberry Virginia, Sumac Poison and Smooth, Sundrops Common, Sunflower Common, Swallow-wort Black, Swampcandle, Sweetflag, Sweetgale, Sweetshrub Common, Tansy Common, Tear-thumb Arrowleaf, Teasel, Tickclover Hoary, Timothy, Toadflax Common, Trillium Purple, Trumpetcreeper, Tuliptree, Tupelo, Turtlehead Pink, Umbrella-wort Heartleaf, Valerian Common, Venus Lookingglass, Vervain Blue, Viburnum Mapleleaf, Violet, Virginia Creeper, Waterleaf Virginia, Waterlily American, Wildbergamot Hairy and Purple, Wildginger Canada, Willow Pussy, Winterberry Common, wintergreen, Witch-hazel Common, Withe-rod, Woodbetony Early, Woodrush common, Woodsorrel Yellow, Yarrow Common.

This book is in very fine condition, There really is no shelfwear at the top and bottom of the spine, just some folding, the boards are in pristine condition.

The Endpapers are clean, unmarked, and have no cracks or cracking. No writing or marking in this book !!, the hinges are strong, the corners are straight and true, The plates are all present, in excellent condition, the text is firmly bound, Nothing is cracked, loose, or coming loose. The text is clean and bright without foxing or soiling.

THIS COPY IS IN PRISTINE CODITION FOR ITS AGE!!!!

This book is NOT ex-library and has NO remainder marks.

Here is your chance to own a VERY scarce, highly collectible piece of literary history listed for much more elsewhere online (If you can find a copy!!). This book is an excellent investment which has been steadily increasing in value and will continue to do so.