April 24, 2023 Jakob Böhme, Robert Bailey Thomas, Paul George Russell, Charles Sprague Sargent, Purple Mustard, Pansies, Kurume Azaleas, Tiny and Wild by Graham Laird Gardner, and Solar System Garden
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Botanical History On This Day
1575 Birth of Jakob Böhme, German original thinker.
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, editor, and publisher of The Old Farmer's Almanac, is born.
1889 Paul George Russell, American botanist, is born.
1841 Charles Sprague Sargent, American botanist, is born.
1914 James M. Bates observed a deep violet patch of blooming flowers in an alfalfa field in Arcadia Valley County in Nebraska.
1916 Today, Vassar College honored Shakespeare on the 300th anniversary of his death by planting pansies.
1919 Ernest H. Wilson worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and received a shipment of Kurume azaleas from Japan.
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1916 On this day, a small garden known as Foundation Stone was installed at Farm Leigh house in Phoenix Park.
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