The Plant Hunters
A group of distinguished field botanists describe their threa most interesting discoveries whilst plant hunting in remote parts of the world
F. Kingdon-Ward tells of a unique lily which he and his wife discovered in North Burma in 1953. also the Tibetan blue poppy, which he was responsible for introducing to this country, and a scarlet berried shrub called cotoneaster conspicua
Oleg Polunin describes a primula from West Nepal, a delphinium from Tibet. and a campanula from Kurdistan Patrick Svnge talks about a dwarf
Alpine forget-me-not. some pitcher plants from Borneo, and a giant lobelia from the Mountains of the Moon
Chairman. Michael Huxley
Editor of the Geographical Magazine