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Anatomy of Seed Plants On this day in 1997, the great plant anatomist extraordinaire Katherine Esau died. Her early work was dedicated to forming the curly top virus in beets and other plants. I found an early newspaper account of her work in the Woodland Daily Democrat from 1928; the headline was “Girl to…

June 4, 2019 Ground Cover Roses, King George III, Nathanial Bagshaw Ward, Katherine Esau, Sarah Martha Baker, Ruth Kassinger, Paradise Under Glass, Planting Peony, and Esau’s Fables

Ground cover roses. I had someone ask me about them recently. They are fantastic for a rose that has a low spreading habit. But, they are really not a true ground covers in that they won’t completely crowd out weeds. I used to grow this rose called “The Fairy,” which is a pink rose -…

Remembering Botanist Katherine Esau and her Fables

“Katherine once gave a lecture titled ‘The Saga of Vladimir-the-Virus and the Sad Fate of Norman-the-Nucleus.'” June 4, 1997 On this day, the German-American botanist Katherine Esau died. She received the National Medal of Science for her outstanding work on plant anatomy. When researching Katherine Esau, I discovered she was born in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine.…