July 5, 2020 Take Kew’s Flower Quiz, A Review of Hamilton for Gardeners, Magnus von Lagerstrom, Adam Kuhn, Stamford Raffles, William Robinson, Rose Poetry, The Gardeners’ Book by Diana Craig, and Margery Claire Carlson
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Botanical History On This Day
1759 Magnus von Lagerström, Swedish naturalist and East India Company director, whose friendship with Linnaeus was rewarded when the crape myrtle genus, Lagerstroemia, was named in his honor.
1817 Adam Kuhn, American physician and naturalist, the only known American student of Linnaeus, for whom the plant Kuhnia (False Boneset) was named, and later the first professor of medicine in the colonies.
1826 Sir Stamford Raffles, who described the colossal corpse flower Rafflesia arnoldii, a leafless, rootless, stemless marvel that can span a yard across and weighs up to fifteen pounds.
1838 William Robinson, fiery Irish gardener, writer, and champion of the wild garden, whose advocacy for naturalistic planting and herbaceous borders helped move Britain beyond stiff, formal designs.
Unearthed Words
Roses in July—overgrown, philosophical, thorny, and adored—from Marvell’s “little wilderness” to Burnett’s secret garden and Martí’s white rose of friendship.
Check out these Rose Poems for July.
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Today’s Botanic Spark
1985 Margery Claire Carlson, pioneering botanist and Northwestern’s first full-time female professor, who hunted orchids through Central and South American jungles and discovered new species by the dozen.
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