November 9, 2020 Josiah Hoopes, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Alfred Austin, Dylan Thomas, Urban Garden Design by Kate Gould, and Carl Sagan
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Botanical History On This Day
1832 Josiah Hoopes, the West Chester nurseryman and Quaker entrepreneur who co-founded Marshall Square Park and built Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas into America’s largest nursery, was born.
1864 Dmitry Ivanovsky, the Russian botanist who uncovered the mystery of the tobacco mosaic virus and helped lay the foundation of modern virology, was born.
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Poetic wit from Dylan Thomas — whose garden grew only washing and babies.
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Today's Botanic Spark
1934 Carl Sagan, the American astronomer and author of Cosmos, was born. He reminded us that we are “made of starstuff” — and that books, like gardens, are proof humans can work magic.
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