Posts Tagged ‘lemon verbena’
Leslie Young Correthers: The Forgotten Poet of the Garden
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 25, 1948 On this day, the garden of earthly delights lost one of its most enchanting cultivators. Leslie Young Correthers, an American poet and artist of remarkable charm, breathed his last, leaving…
Read MoreElizabeth Agassiz: The Garden Lover Behind Radcliffe’s Founding and Louis Agassiz’s Biography
The Life of Agassiz On this day in 1877, Elizabeth Agassiz, the wife of the naturalist and famous Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz, met with Longfellow to get his opinion on the first couple of chapters of the Life of Agassiz; her biography of her husband. In Louise Hall Tharp’s book about the family, a memory…
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