Edith Farrington Johnston was given a full palette of colors to portray these native plants. She traveled far to secure her models and when necessary had the freshly picked flowers shipped to her by air. With a botanist's eye for accuracy and the artist's appreciation of beauty, she has produced a group of paintings which are remarkable not only for their verity but also for their artistic design.
The accompanying text was planned to provide the specific information every flower lover needs—common names, botanical names (the nomenclature of Gray's Manual of Botany, 1950, has been followed); size, appearance, habitat and geographical location. Starting with the Common Cattail, and then the Jack-in-the-pulpit and Sweet Flag of the simple Arum family, the arrangement follows through the course of gradual plant development to the closing pages of the Star-Thistle, Tall Coreopsis and Gum weed of the Composite family, covering over five hundred individual flowers that grow wild in the region from the East Coast to the Rocky Mountains, and often beyond, and from Florida to southern Canada.
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