July 12, 2022 Horace Walpole, Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Buckminster Fuller, The Manual of Plant Grafting by Peter MacDonald, and Hugh Johnson

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Botanical History On This Day

1757 On this day, Horace Walpole wrote a letter to his friend John Chute Esquire about the heat wave coursing through Europe.

1817 Birth of Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

1895 Birth of Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and director in the musical theater.

1895 Birth of Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

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2012 On this day, Hugh Johnson, author of Trees, The Principles of Gardening, and many writings on wine, wrote in Trad's Diary, which started as an editorial column of the RHS Journal:

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