July 3, 2020 Being More Water-efficient, Dog Days, Gilbert Laing Meason, Michael Keens, Lambertus Bobbink, William Henry Davies, The Reason for Flowers by Stephen Buchmann, and Calvin R. Sperling
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Botanical History On This Day
1796 Gilbert Laing Meason, Scottish gentleman, friend of Sir Walter Scott, and the quiet originator of the term “landscape architecture” that would eventually define the work of Frederick Law Olmsted.
1806 Michael Keens and the Strawberry, the Isleworth market gardener who exhibited the first large-scale cultivated strawberry, marrying flavor and beauty and changing summer desserts forever.
1939 Lambertus C. Bobbink, Dutch-American rosarian and co-founder of Bobbink & Atkins, was honored at the New York Botanical Garden with a rose garden and a plaque praising his “counsel and generosity.”
Unearthed Words
Birdsong, butterflies, bumble-bees, and buttercups—William Henry Davies’ June-and-July world where gold-dust clings to shoes and velvet bees wriggle out of hollow flowers.
The Nature Poems of William Henry Davies
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Today’s Botanic Spark
1993 Calvin R. Sperling and Ethnobotany, when the USDA botanist and plant explorer became the first recipient of the Richard Evans Schultes Award for his work conserving crop diversity and searching the world for wild food plants.
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