April 19, 2022 Gilbert White, Adrian Haworth, Lucy Braun, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Pea Planting on the Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington

The Daily Gardener · Apr 19, 2022 · 15m

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1792 On this day, the Naturalist Gilbert White wrote in his Selborne journal in England:

Redstart appears.

Daffodils are gone.

Mountain-snow-drops, and hyacinths in bloom; the latter very fine:

Fritillaries going.

Then, four years later, in 1796, Gilbert wrote,

Sowed Holly-Hocks, Columbines, and Sweet Williams.

1797 Birth of Adrian Hardy Haworth, British entomologist, and botanist.

Adrian was trained to be a…