The Poet’s Garden: James Gates Percival and the Language of Flowers

Portrait of James Gates Percival, said to be painted by his brother (colorized)

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: September 15, 1795 On this day, we find ourselves transported back to when James Gates Percival, that most fascinating polymath of American letters, drew his first breath. While history may remember him as a surgeon and geologist, it is his poetic musings on the…

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