May 19, 2022 The Dark Day, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tulips, Ruskin Bond, The Modern Cottage Garden by Greg Loades, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Leo Tolstoy

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Botanical History On This Day

1780 The Dark Day dimmed New England by late morning—candles at lunch, animals to roost, prayers said—later recalled in Whittier’s verse and followed by a blood-red moon.

1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne died; Sophia’s May letter praised tender greens, and a bizarre geranium-leaf “cure” in his fiction ended in gothic perfection.

1906 Country Life on Tulips hailed May tulips—awnings for peak bloom, “The Sultan” black tulip, and goblets of Tulipa gesneriana major first massed at Kew.

1934 Ruskin Bond was born; his lines dream of gardens and simple living from Dehra to the Himalayas.

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1899 Lou Andreas Salomé & Rainer Maria Rilke visited Tolstoy in his garden—forget-me-nots in hand—and Russia kindled Rilke’s love for the land and its language.

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