March 23, 2022 John Bartram, 1907 School Garden, James C. Rose, Norman Thelwell, The Cook's Herb Garden by Jeff Cox and Marie-Pierre Moine, and Elizabeth Taylor

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1699 Birth of John Bartram, American botanist, and explorer.

John founded the first botanical garden in America, and Linnaeus called him the "greatest natural botanist in the world."

Like many botanists of his time, John was born to a farming Quaker family in Pennsylvania. He never forgot his rural roots, and he always thought of himself as a farmer first. When asked to describe how he ended up in botany, he…