Posts Tagged ‘Cadwallader Colden’
February 7, 2022 Cadwallader Colden, Charles Dickens, Henri Frederic Amiel, Green by Ula Maria, and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History 1688 Birth of Cadwallader Colden (books about this person), Scottish-American physician, botanist, and Lieutenant Governor of New York. The genus Coldenia in…
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As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Cadwallader Colden by Seymour Schwartz This book came out in 2013, and the subtitle is A Biography. Seymour gives us the first complete biography of the American botanist Cadwallader Colden in this book. Cadwallader was the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor of New York. He was brilliant and multi-talented – a…
Read MoreFebruary 5, 2021 Carnation History, John Lindley, Karl Theodor Hartweg, Botanists Getting Home Alive, Cadwallader Colden by Seymour Schwartz, and Celebrating Friedrich Welwitsch
Today we celebrate a botanist and orchidologist who saved Kew, We’ll also learn about an orchid hunter who collected plants on behalf of the London Horticultural Society. We hear some words about the challenging experience of a botanist in 1874. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about one of America’s earliest botanists and…
Read MoreMeet Jane Colden, America’s First Female Botanist, Through the Men Who Knew Her Best
“Cadwallader gave Jane access to his impressive botanical library; he even shared his correspondence with her and allowed her to interact with the many botanists who visited the family’s estate.” January 20, 1756 On this day, Peter Collinson wrote to John Bartram about Jane Colden. Our friend, Colden’s daughter, has… sent over several sheets of…
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2021 January Garden Chores, Henry Danvers, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Elizabeth Lawrence on Dogwoods and Spider Lilies, All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols, and the first female botanist in America: Jane Colden
Today we celebrate the pardoned outlaw who donated the land for the Oxford Botanic Garden. We’ll also learn about Carl Jr. – Linnaeus’s son – Linnaeus filius, who surely felt some pressure growing up in his father’s shadow. We’ll hear one of my favorite letters from the garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence. We Grow That Garden…
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Lieutenant Governor of New York Today is the birthday of the Scottish-American physician, Scientist, botanist, and Lieutenant Governor of New York, Cadwallader Colden (CAD-wah-LIDDER). When Colden arrived in America in 1718, he began a family dynasty that would eventually settle in Queens, New York. Aside from his political endeavors and his many interests, Colden was…
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