during which war was he active?
WWI
Maud Grieve
Maud was keen to be involved in the war effort and around this time turned her garden over completely to herb cultivation and started her life’s work the writing of her monographs. She spent long days in the garden and then worked into the night on her research, writing up the information and also on her correspondence, she was a prolific letter writer all her life (some of her letters are held in the Kew Herbarium library and others are in a private collection). In October 1914 the Board of Agriculture published Bulletin no. 288, The Cultivation & Collection of Medicinal plants in England to deal with the inadequate supplies, the shortage was due to the fact that most of the plants used in the pharmaceutical industry had been imported cheaply prior to the start of the war and the ports were closed to the European market. The drugs required were: henbane, foxgloves, deadly nightshade and monkshood. The National Herb Growing Association was set up by a group of educated women under the 
what is the order of the thistle? An order of chivalry associated with Scotland when was it started? 1687 what did the symbol or logo look like? The thistle, the national flower of Scotland are there any places named after this flower? Yes, the Burgundy village of Chardonnay, Saône-et-Loire is the flower medicinal? Yes, Maud Grieve recorded that Pliny and medieval writers had thought it could return hair to bald heads who is the former? A herbalist, folklorist and writer
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Maud Grieve [SEP] Work during WWI
Maud was keen to be involved in the war effort and around this time turned her garden over completely to herb cultivation and started her life's work the writing of her monographs. She spent long days in the garden and then worked into the night on her research, writing up the information and also on her correspondence, she was a prolific letter writer all her life (some of her letters are held in the Kew Herbarium library and others are in a private collection). In October 1914 the Board of Agriculture published Bulletin no. 288, The Cultivation & Collection of Medicinal plants in England to deal with the inadequate supplies, the shortage was due to the fact that most of the plants used in the pharmaceutical industry had been imported cheaply prior to the start of the war and the ports were closed to the European market.