Delzie Demaree

…plants on the spot in his rugged, beat-up field press…He discarded newspapers printed with comic strips. He reasoned that to use comics for pressing plants was to tempt an hourly…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…was recognized as a world authority on the rust and smut fungi, and to our knowledge of these groups he contributed thirty-one journal articles. In the Toronto area Professor Jackson…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…in Deering, North Dakota. After a year of graduate work at the University of Chicago, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a musician first class during World

Twilight Thursdays Begin April 6

…exception of service animals, pets are not allowed in the Garden, and as part of the UNC campus, open containers of alcohol are prohibited. Hours and Admission Twilight Thursdays run…

Norton G. Miller

…arts in biology at the University of Buffalo, now the State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1963, graduating with high distinction in biology. Growing up in rural western…

Educational Exhibits

…in the world and what we’re doing to save the seeds of rare plants in this educational exhibit. Past exhibits have included Saving Our Birds, Saving Our Wildflowers, Saving Our…

George Shuford Ramseur

…Operations, Inc., 2010. 3. “Ruth Anderson Ramseur, July 24, 1925 – May 23, 2019” Obituary, Moore-Cortner Funeral Home, Winchester, TN. https://www.moorecortner.com/obituaries/Ruth-Anderson-Ramseur?obId=4429338 accessed on 5 August 2020. 4. Priestly, Mary. 2009….

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…speech entitled “The Present Devotedness of Genius to the Amusement of the World.”8 In the autumn of 1827 he moved to Claiborne, Alabama ** and worked as a private teacher….

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Charlottesville, Virginia. Their only daughter was newswoman, feminist, and segregationist Nell (Cornelia) Battle Lewis (1893-1956).1 Ivey Foreman Lewis graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an…

John Lewis Sheldon

…of the carnation rust. Botanical Gazette 40: 225-229. Sheldon, John L. 1905. Concerning the identity of the fungi causing an anthracnose of the sweet-pea and the bitter-rot of the apple….