March 22, 2021 Cemetery White Iris, Henry David Thoreau, Christine Buisman, Thomas Carew, Garden Time by W.S. Merwin, and America’s First Horticultural Society
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Botanical History On This Day
1856 Henry David Thoreau recorded the first stirrings of spring in his journal, noting the flow of maple sap, swelling buds, and the subtle power of microclimates he called “warm places.”
1900 Christine Johanna Buisman, Dutch phytopathologist, was born, later becoming the first scientist to confirm the fungal cause of Dutch Elm Disease in North America before her life was cut tragically short at thirty-six.
Unearthed Words
1640 Poet Thomas Carew died on this day, leaving behind verses that captured spring’s thawing earth, waking bees, and the tender return of life.
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Today's Botanic Spark
1822 The New York Horticultural Society was founded, becoming the nation’s first horticultural society and planting seeds that would, decades later, lead to the creation of the New York Botanical Garden.
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