Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Ernest Henry Wilson
Born: February 15, 1876
Died: October 15, 1930 (aged 54)
Bio: Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson, better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name.
Known for:
- A naturalist in western China (1913)
- Aristocrats of the garden (1917)
- America's greatest garden (1925)
- Plant hunting (1927)