1. Mimpish Squinnies Reginald Farrer’s Short Guide to Worthless Plants

2. Reginald Farrer British plantsman, explorer, writer, plant enthusiast The English Rock-Garden: Volumes 1 and 2 (1907, 1913) At least 9 species of plants named after Farrer

3. Watercolor Rhododendron McKenzianum by Reginald Farrar June 2 nd, 1919 “I sat down to paint it (the most marvelous and impressive Rhododendron I’ve ever seen– gigantic, excellent, with corrugated leaves and great white trumpets stained with yellow inside–a thing alone, by itself WELL worth all the journey up here and everything.”

5. “Many of the race are very miffy or very mimpish or both… V. Nivalis is another of the valueless little dirty sad-blue Squinnies.” 14 plant descriptions from Farrer’s The English Rock Garden 14 full-color plant portraits Portrait of Farrer with short biographical note Clamshell case covered in Chinese silk

7. Maureen Sanderson introduction Hand-colored relief engravings by Abigail Rorer Text written by Reginald Farrer Typesetting done by Michael and Winifred Bixler Text printed by Michael Russem Hand bound by Mark Tomlinson and Daniel Gehrich Collaborative Work

9. Rubus Australis “terrible spiny affairs with long thin arms… armed with insatiable little teeth as numerous, vicious, and ivorine as those of sharks...”

10. Aconitum napellus “ “dismal, so persistent In its malign attendance upon man… in the hope that some day somebody may eat of its poisoned root and die.

11. “…weakly rubbish with tight heads of little and insignificant bluish stars…” Gentiana Brevidens

12. “dismal sere decorations of winter… their rank ugliness of summer would certainly not entitle them.” Physalis alkekengi

13. Sources Farrer, Reginald, Abigail Rorer, Maureen Sanderson, Michael Russem, Michael Bixler, Winifred Bixler, and Mark Tomlinson. Mimpish Squinnies: Reginald Farrer's Short Guide to Worthless Plants. Deluxe ed. Vol. 6. Petersham, MA: Lone Oak, 2007. Print. Hobson Amanda. “Reginald Farrer of Clapham.” North Craven Heritage Trust (1992). North Craven Heritage Trust. Web. www.northcravenheritage.org.uk/NCHTJto2009/Journals/1992/J92A13 www.northcravenheritage.org.uk/NCHTJto2009/Journals/1992/J92A13 Petch, Emily. “Reginald Farrer: Dalesman, Intrepid Plant Hunter and Gardener.” Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (2015). Library Art and Archives. Web. www.kew.orgwww.kew.org