Quote of the day
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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)







