I have brought back this year some mountain auriculas and the seed of
some salvia and Fusio tiger-lily, and mean to plant the auriculas and to
sow the seeds in Epping Forest and elsewhere round about London. I wish
people would more generally bring back the seeds of pleasing foreign
plants and introduce them broadcast, sowing them by our waysides and in
our fields, or in whatever situation is most likely to suit them. It is
true, this would puzzle botanists, but there is no reason why botanists
should not be puzzled. A botanist is a person whose aim is to uproot,
kill and exterminate every plant that is at all remarkable for rarity or
any special virtue, and the rarer it is the more bitterly he will hunt it
down.