Calvin Fletcher, State Senator and Indianapolis Gardener
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast:
May 1, 1859, On this day, Calvin Fletcher, American attorney, banker, farmer, and state senator in Indianapolis, wrote these words in his diary:
This a most delightful Sabbath morn and the anniversary of my leaving Westford, Massachusetts in 1817 forty two years ago.
[It's] also the anniversary of my alliance to my sainted wife in 1821 thirty eight years ago to day.
Both days are of great beauty & loveliness.
This morn I worked my garden & retrospected on the past.
Brought up the enumerable reasons for gratitude to Almighty God for the undeserved blessings have enjoyed.
All nature seemed to accord to my strain of thought.
Bless the Lord O! my soul & all that is within me say Amen!
Mrs. F. & I went to Westly Chapel to hear E. preach from the Canticles (Solomon's Songs):
"The winter is past & the time of singing of birds has come..."
