Gaspard Bauhin

Gaspard Bauhin

The Many Uses of Rutabaga Today is the 460th birthday of the Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin. Gaspard spent his life classifying plants, and he ordered plants in a way that’s familiar to us today – using binomial names, one name for the genus, and one name for the species. Gaspard was also the first to…

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Today we celebrate the German botanist who’s 1542 book is one of the most historically significant works of all time and the birthday of a man who discovered the rutabaga. We’ll learn about the man known as “The Father of English Botany” and the man known as the “Father of American Horticulture.” Today’s Unearthed Words…

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