A Life Among Leaves: The Botanical Journey of Ethel Zoe Bailey

Ethel Zoe Bailey and her father L. H. Bailey

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 17, 1889 On this day, a most remarkable woman entered the world, one whose life would become as intertwined with botany as the most tenacious of climbing vines. Ethel Zoe Bailey, daughter…

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Cornell’s first class, Ezra’s vision, and the gardens of Ithaca

Ezra Cornell, the co-founder of Cornell University.

The Lake Cayuga Campus On this day in 1868, Cornell University welcomed the very first class of students to the rural campus overlooking Lake Cayuga in Ithaca, New York. An agricultural land grant university, Cornell was endowed by Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Western Union Telegraph Co. There’s a funny little story that…

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