Plant Preservation Quotes

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.