Posts Tagged ‘Josephine Margetts’
February 16, 2022 Marie Clark Taylor, David Austin, the New Jersey State Flower, Sleepy Cat Farm by Caroline Seebohm, and Elizabeth Gilbert
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 1911 Birth of Marie Clark Taylor, American botanist and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in botany from Fordham University. A…
Read MoreJosephine Margetts and the Violet’s Victory: How New Jersey Found Its Flower
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 16, 1971 Dearest reader, On this day in 1971, the violet—New Jersey’s charming and humble state flower—was officially adopted by the legislature, thanks to the steadfast efforts of Senator Josephine Margetts. Imagine…
Read MoreRemembering Josephine Margetts: Gardener, Politician, and Lover of Nature
“She hadn’t the heart to pull it up, she said, and so it grew and grew until it rivaled the height of the tallest hollies and its expanding girth forced strollers to detour around it.” In researching Josephine Margetts — the woman who created the bill for the State Flower of New Jersey (the Violet)…
Read MoreJosephine S. Margetts and the Violet: New Jersey’s Official State Flower Champion
Violets of New Jersey February 16, 1971 On this day, the New Jersey State Flower, the Violet, was officially adopted by the legislature after a proposal from Josephine S. Margetts. In 1967, when Josephine Margetts was elected to the New Jersey State Assembly in 1967, she became the first woman to represent Morris County, New…
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