December 3, 2020 Seed Size, Gourds and Squashes, James Arnold, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sara Coleridge, Earth to Table by Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann, and Octavia Hill
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Botanical History On This Day
1492 Christopher Columbus notes “crops and gourds” — likely squash used as utensils. A quick primer: gourds and squash are both Cucurbitaceae; loofahs come from gourds; pumpkins are squash; summer squash are soft and perishable, winter squash store for months. Security gourd, anyone?
1868 James Arnold dies, the philanthropist whose bequest and vision led to Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum—the first U.S. arboretum—later directed by Charles Sprague Sargent.
1919 Pierre-Auguste Renoir dies. He loved painting flowers “freely and boldly,” insisting painting needn’t tell a story to matter—flowers could simply be flowers. (His garden gate once warned: “No Renoirs sold here. Beware the dog.”)
Unearthed Words
“January brings the snow…”
— Sara Coleridge, The Garden Year
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Today’s Botanic Spark
1838 Octavia Hill is born — activist and co-founder of Britain’s National Trust who fought for urban access to nature: “The sight of sky and of things growing are human needs, common to all.”
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