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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 On This Day 1648 On this day, Elias Ashmole, the English antiquary, politician, astrologer, and alchemist, wrote in his diary, 1816 During June, in New England,…

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A Simpling We Shall Go: Elias Ashmole’s Botanical Adventure

Elias Ashmole, 1688

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 6, 1648 On this day, dear readers, we find ourselves transported to a time when the pursuit of botanical knowledge was as thrilling as any modern-day adventure. Picture, if you will, the…

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