July 24, 2020 Moss by Robert Miller, Benning Wentworth, Henry Shaw, Alexandre Dumas, Pigeon Peas, Chasing Eden by Jack Staub and Renny Reynolds, and the Dial-A-Garden-Tipline
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Botanical History On This Day
1696 Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire, helped introduce lilacs to America; the shrub later became the Granite State’s official flower for its hardy character.
1800 Henry Shaw, the philanthropist behind the Missouri Botanical Garden (“Shaw’s Garden”), endowed parks, botany at Washington University, and built the venerable Linnean House orangery.
1802 Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, bartered his books for a lifetime annuity of Cavaillon melons and celebrated gardens and pathways in his prose.
1938 Pigeon Peas in Miami were touted by Charles F. Sulzner as easy, tropical “peas” on small trees—nutty pods for summer kitchens and nectar for hummingbirds.
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Today's Botanic Spark
1975 Dial-A-Garden Tipline — A Green Bay paper listed daily taped topics from birch borers to training young trees, letting gardeners phone in quick midsummer wisdom.
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