Therapeutic Horticulture

…to individuals and groups since 1978, ranging from underserved children to elders with limited outdoor access to disenfranchised individuals in our communities. The practice of therapeutic horticulture has proven to…

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…are attractive but not extraordinary; when observed closely, though, the delicate tracery of the green veins on the waxy white petals is astonishing.”2 Apparently all-around naturalist Scott Ranger was as…

Steven Worth Leonard

…Plant of the Week: Big-leaf witch-hazel (Hamamelis ovalis). https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/hamamelis_ovalis.shtml accessed on 20 February 2021. Obituary: Steven Worth Leonard. The Lexington Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina. Posted online 18 August, 2022. https://www.the-dispatch.com/obituaries/plex0281187…

Charles Ferson Durant

…it was eulogized by scientist and bibliophile; and then — well, then it disappeared from the catalogue of the world’s achievements, save for the brief entry, with mis-quoted title, given

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…Billings, Partners in Acquisition. Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 49(3): 443-449. http://www.shc.edu/about-shc/history-of-the-college accessed 18 September 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie_Velpeauaccessed 18 September 2011. 11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroform accessed 18 September 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesiaaccessed 18 September 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Charles_Alexandre_Louisaccessed…

Louis Hermann Pammel

…in 1931 on a transcontinental train traveling through Nevada. +++++ More than a dozen organisms have been named in Louis Pammel’s honor including: Aecidium pammelii Trel. Cephalosporium pammelii R. E….

Rene Pomerleau

…Georges Maheux (1889-1977), who was the provincial entomologist and professor of entomology…When the School of Surveying and Forest Engineering became Laval’s Faculty of Forest Engineering in 1945, Pomerleau continued to…

Richard Halsted Ward

…men throughout the country have taken great interest in this expedition and have contributed much to defray expenses, and in return will receive portions of what was obtained.”7 Dr. Ward…

Henry Roland Totten

…Melvin in honor of Henry Roland Totten, is planted outside the Totten Center at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill. Photograph by Arleigh Buchler, 2014 Dr. Totten was…