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How Naturalist John Burroughs Inspired His Neighbor Frances Parsons to Write “How to Know the Wildflowers”
“The pleasure of a walk in the woods and the fields is enhanced a hundredfold by some little knowledge of the flowers we meet at every turn.” June 10, 1952 On this day, gardener and nature writer Frances Parsons died. When researching Frances Parsons, I discovered that her childhood neighbor was John Burroughs. John…
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