November 11, 2020 Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, Elizabeth Coleman White, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Galileo, Foraged Flora by Louesa Roebuck and Sarah Lonsdale, and Nathaniel Wallich
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1765 Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, the Belgian polymath whose relentless seed-to-seed experiments reshaped the pear orchard—bequeathing us ‘Bosc’ and ‘D’Anjou’—was born.
1954 Elizabeth Coleman White, New Jersey’s “Queen of Blueberries,” who helped domesticate and market the modern blueberry, died.
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