May 2, 2023 John Cabot, Leonardo da Vinci, Meriwether Lewis, John Abercrombie, Thomas Hanbury, Hulda Klager, A Gardener’s Guide to Botany by Scott Zona, and Novalis

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Botanical History On This Day

1497 John Cabot, the Canadian Explorer, set sail from Bristol, England, on his ship, Matthew.

1519 Leonardo da Vinci, the mathematician, scientist, painter, and botanist, died.

1803 Napoleon signed a deal for the Louisiana Purchase. 828,000 square miles of French territory to the United States for $27 million.

1806 The garden writer John Abercrombie died. 

1867 Thomas Hanbury bought a property in the French Riviera that he called La Mortola.

1928 On this day, folks were lined up to see the lilacs in bloom at Hulda Klager's place in Woodland, Washington.

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Today's Botanic Spark

1772 Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg aka Novalis, is born.

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