December 16, 2020 Madagascar Vanilla, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, Albert Spear Hitchcock, David Hall, Hal Borland, The Catskills Farm to Table Cookbook by Courtney Wade and a Plant Called Higgenses
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How Did Madagascar Become the World’s Biggest Producer of Vanilla? | Atlas Obscura | Dan Nosowitz
Botanical History On This Day
1886 Marshall Pinckney Wilder, Massachusetts merchant-turned-plantsman who bred hundreds of camellias and championed pears (over 900 varieties tested), founded the American Pomological Society and helped seed the Boston Public Garden with his private collection.
1935 Albert Spear Hitchcock, USDA agrostologist and conservationist, died; his fieldwork (and wheelbarrowed herbarium hauls) built America’s definitive grass collection and the classic Manual of Grasses.
1982 Forensic Botany & David Hall—plant taxonomy meets crime lab: bark, fungus, and stems as evidence helping investigators “nip cases in the bud.”
Unearthed Words
December’s living field guide—snow, chickadees, partridgeberry, and lichen—from Hal Borland. “The Golden Circle,” December
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Read The Daily Gardener review of The Catskills Farm to Table Cookbook by Courtney Wade
Buy the book on Amazon: The Catskills Farm to Table Cookbook
Today's Botanic Spark
1916 A charming Star Phoenix tale: a “famous botanist” meets a country boy whose taxonomy is strictly local—family first. Read today’s Botanic Spark
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