July 11, 2022 Horace Walpole, Dorothy Thompson, Oliver Sacks, India’s First Cryptogamic Garden, Botany for the Artist by Sarah Simblet, and Mary Russell Mitford

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Botanical History On This Day

1788 On this day, Horace Walpole wrote about the powerful impact of rain on the garden.

1893 Birth of Dorothy Thompson, American journalist and radio broadcaster.

1933 Birth of Oliver Sacks, British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.

2021 On this day, India's first cryptogamic garden, with nearly fifty different species, is opened. 

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Today's Botanic Spark

1824 Mary Russell Mitford writes to Benjamin Robert Haydon to describe her garden.

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