January 21, 2020 The Winter Greenhouse, Ten Unusual Veggies to Grow, John Frémont, Robert Thornton, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, National Squirrel Appreciation Day, Snow Riddle, The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Plastic Saucers, and Erwin Frink Smith
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The list includes Cardoon, Shiso Perilla ("SHE-so per-ILL-ah"), Oca tubers, Celeriac ("sell-AIR-ee-ack"), Malabar Spinach, Kohlrabi, Seakale, Amaranth, Winter Radish, and Salsify & Scorzonera ("score-zah-NEAR-ah").
Botanical History On This Day
1813 John Charles Frémont, “The Pathfinder” and first Republican presidential candidate, was born; he saw Nebraska as one vast garden and later lent his name to the cottonwood, Populus fremontii.
1837 Robert John Thornton, English physician, Linnaeus devotee, and creator of the lavish but unfinished masterpiece The Temple of Flora, died after producing some of the loveliest botanical plates ever printed.
1879 Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, pioneering English botanist, rust-fungi researcher, suffrage leader, and WWI commander of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, was born; several fungi now bear her name.
2001 National Squirrel Appreciation Day was founded by wildlife rehabilitator Christy Hargrove to honor squirrels in midwinter, when their natural food is scarce, and their seed-caching services to the forest are most needed.
Unearthed Words
A winter riddle from James Parton, whose answer, of course, is snow—heaven-born, pure, and bright, but dark and heavy when pressed together.
A Riddle on Snow by James Parton
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Today's Botanic Spark
1854 Erwin Frink Smith, the gifted USDA botanist, linguist, and literary soul who hired and mentored women scientists, was born; after losing his beloved wife Charlotte, he honored her with a tender book of memories and continued his plant pathology work with a poet’s heart.
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