Steven Worth Leonard

…Steve Leonard grew up as a kid. We brought those Trillium back in full flower, each one carefully bundled “Al Radford style” in folds of newspaper secured with rubber bands…

William Basil Fox

…University (MU), Mississippi Museum of Natural Sciences (MMNS), Mississippi State University (MISSA), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), New York Botanical Garden (NY; major repository), Pennsylvania State University (PAC), Rutgers University (CHRB),…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…Service System, 147; Box: 18. Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. 2. North Carolina Deaths, 1997-2004. North…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…include those of Meijer [Meijer, W. (1992) Mary Wharton. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter 7(1): 2-3] and Wieland [Wieland, C. (1992) Mary Eugenia Wharton, 1912-1991. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter…

The BGF Gets a New Name

…country to support a public garden, so a more descriptive name may have been deemed unnecessary at that time. But starting in the 1990s, the outside world started to change….

Philip French-Carson Greear

…married on June 4, 1943. While Philip was in military training, they moved their residency to Helen, Georgia, to be near his parents. Philip was stationed in Japan post World

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…Eyles traveled the world, from Djibouti, at the mouth of the Red Sea, to more conventional tourist destinations. She lived in Malaya with her husband, Don Eyles Sr., an officer…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…children. The family lived in South Haven, Michigan, where his father was a minister in the Congregational Church. In early life, Egbert was influenced by three family ministers, including his…