July 11, 2022 Horace Walpole, Dorothy Thompson, Oliver Sacks, India's First Cryptogamic Garden, Botany for the Artist by Sarah Simblet, and Mary Russell Mitford
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1788 On this day, Horace Walpole wrote about the powerful impact of rain on the garden.
He wrote,
My verdure begins to recover its bloom.. in this country, nobody pays his debts like rain. It may destroy your flowers, but you cannot complain of want of fruit; cherries, apples, walnuts, are more exuberant than their leaves.
1893 Birth of Dorothy Thompson, American journalist and radio broadcaster.
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