Posts Tagged ‘Idaho’
How a California Art Teacher Named Emma Edwards Green Designed the Idaho State Seal and included the State Flower: the Mock Orange
“The story of how the Mock Orange became the Idaho State Flower is one of luck.” March 2, 1931 On this day, Idaho adopted the Mock Orange as the official State Flower. In the 1800s, the Mock Orange was known as the Syringa. The story of how the Mock Orange became the Idaho State…
Read MoreThe Father of the Sugar Snap Pea: Calvin Lamborn
“I miss my father. I remember the night he died. I came in from the field and I was talking about the peas, and for the first time, he wasn’t interested.” In May 1979, Dr. Calvin Lamborn bred snow peas and English shelling peas together to create the Sugar Snap Pea at his Magic Seed…
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