Emma Lewis Lipps

…for more than forty year. Photo courtesy of Find A Grave, Memorial ID 91332052. “Emma Lewis Lipps was born in Alexandria, Virginia on February 8, 1919 and died in Rome,…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…married to Robert B. Tindall, a pioneer florist who built and operated the first greenhouse in Independence. And young Bush’s early interest in plants was no doubt due in some…

Madeline Palmer Burbanck

…In Memoriam: Madeline Palmer Burbanck. http://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/madeline-palmer-burbanck/ accessed on 5 April 2017. 2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015….

Don Edgar Eyles

…its transmission to man. In 1960 Dr. Eyles, taking a clue from his accidental laboratory infection, showed that Plasmodium cynomolgi bastianellii of monkeys can be transmitted to man through a…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…in 1942. He soon transferred into the newly formed U.S. Air Force, in Biloxi, Mississippi. There he met Mildred White, a young teacher who taught at Gulfport High School. They…

William Wirt Calkins

…Illinois” published in “The Berwyn Current,” in 1907, eight or nine botanical papers in “The Ottawa (Ill.) Republican,” from 1880 to 1892, and three papers in the first volume of…

Nancy Blair Eliason

…North Carolina in 1991.1 SOURCES: Ancestry.com North Carolina, Birth Indexes, 1800-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Register of Deeds. North Carolina Birth Indexes, Raleigh,…

Nandina Fruits Can Be Toxic to Birds

…prevent nandina from escaping and invading natural areas. Nandina is classified as an invasive species in North Carolina and other states in the Southeast. Finally, while no one wants to…

2024 NC Wildflower of the Year

…ability to produce its own usable nitrogen through a symbiotic relationship with bacteria found in nodules on its roots. These bacteria, called rhizobia, convert nitrogen that is found within air…