November 13, 2020 Frederick Lueders, Walter Bartlett, Howard Scott Gentry, Jane Powers, Candace Bushnell, Jeff Cox, P. Allen Smith’s Seasonal Recipes from the Garden, and the 1916 Chrysanthemum Show
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1843 Frederick Lueders lost three years of botanical collections when his canoe was swept into the Columbia River rapids—saving only his copy of Torrey & Gray’s Flora, memorialized by John Frémont as “Lueders’ Bay.”
1870 Dr. Walter E. Bartlett—physician, naturalist, and civic leader—was born; his 15-acre vision became Kansas’s Bartlett Arboretum, famed for Tulip Time and today stewarded with music and horticulture.
1982 Howard Scott Gentry, the USDA explorer behind Agaves of Continental North America, was profiled as an “elder statesman” who knew more about agaves “than any other human being.”
2010 Jane Powers charted the Victorian bedding-plant craze—where 10,000 plants signaled a squire and 40,000 a duke—in a delicious Irish Times history of display and status.
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First snows and garden duets—two short reminders that wonder endures if we let it. Candace Bushnell & Jeff Cox
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Today's Botanic Spark
Early 1900s “Keep to the right!” at the chrysanthemum show—a Washington, D.C., guard mused on crowds, souvenir-snipping, and 250 riotous varieties proving people really do love flowers.
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