Posts Tagged ‘Hunter’s Home’
Sweet Potatoes, Flower Pressing, and 19th-Century Women Botanists at Hunter’s Home
Botany: A Women’s Science? April 29, 1850 Here’s a post for this day from Hunter’s Home – the only remaining pre–Civil War plantation home in Oklahoma. “Emily and Amanda stayed at Araminta’s for much of the day. They had a sweet potato roasting and then gathered flowers for pressing. Emily kept an herbarium into which…
Read MoreApril 29, 2021 Forsythia, Hunter’s Home Diary, Agnes Chase, Toni Morrison on spring, Life Among the Texas Flora by Minetta Altgelt Goyne, and Cornelia Vanderbilt
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Spring’s Splendor: Forsythia | The Flower Infused Cocktail Blog | Alyson Brown Botanical History On This Day 1850 An entry from the Hunter’s Home Diary,…
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