Chapter I: Introduction: 11

ORIGIN OF PLANTS 17

LIFE OF A PLANT 27

MIGRATIONS OF PLANTS 39

COMRADES OF THE PLANT WORLD 57

ALLIES OF THE PLANT WORLD 69

MARRIAGE CUSTOMS OF PLANTS 83

ART IN THE PLANT WORLD 95

MUSIC IN THE PLANT WORLD 110

SCIENCE IN THE PLANT WORLD 122

RELIGION IN THE PLANT WORLD 141

PLANT MYTHOLOGY 154

MYSTICISM IN THE PLANT WORLD 167

PLANT INTELLIGENCE 186

THE HIGHER LIFE OF PLANTS 204

PLANTS & MEN 215

To

EDWIN MARKHAM

and

ANNA CATHERINE MARKHAM

who live their poetry.

“That nothing walks with aimless feet;
That not one life shall be destroyed;
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete;

“That not one worm is cloven in vain;
That not a moth with vain desire
Is shrivel’d in a fruitless fire,
Or but subserves another’s gain.”

--_Tennyson._