January 12, 2021 The Perfect Cup of Herbal Tea, Jean Jules Linden, Edred John Henry Corner, Linneas’s Stark Funeral Instructions, A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh, and James Henry Salisbury’s War on Fruit and Vegetables
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Botanical History On This Day
1898 Jean Jules Linden, Belgian orchid hunter and horticulturist, died.
He revolutionized orchid care by recording the natural growing conditions of orchids in the wild, sparing countless plants from the “orchid graveyard” of Europe’s overheated hothouses. His notes, glasshouses, and lithographs remain treasures of botany.
1906 Birth of Edred John Henry Corner, British botanist, conservationist, and mycologist.
As Assistant Director at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, he safeguarded collections during WWII, even persuading the Japanese to protect the grounds. His landmark book, The Life of Plants, became a global bestseller, blending science, sketches, and conservation insights.
Unearthed Words
Today’s excerpt is from Bill Law, who shares that Linnaeus left stark funeral instructions:
“Entertain nobody …and accept no condolences.”
The reading is from Bill Laws’s Fifty Plants That Changed the World.
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Read my review of A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh, the true story of Jack Heslop Harrison, whose fraudulent claims about Ice Age survivors on the Isle of Rum were exposed by a determined amateur botanist. Proof that even science has its scandals.
Buy the book on Amazon: A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud
Today's Botanic Spark
1823 Birth of James Henry Salisbury, the Civil War physician who launched a crusade against fruits and vegetables.
Convinced humans should mostly eat meat, he invented the Salisbury steak in 1888 and promoted his namesake diet.
Today, gardeners everywhere continue to sow seeds in defiance of his anti-vegetarian creed.
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