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…

What is Therapeutic Horticulture?

…be applied to almost all situations, indoors or outdoors. Brief history of the therapeutic horticulture/horticultural therapy field In 1817, Benjamin Rush, a physician, politician, and social reformer who is considered…

Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price

…Kentucky, while Sadie was still quite young. However, they sent her back to Terre Haute, Indiana, to St. Agnes Hall, a church school run by the Episcopal Church, from which…

Eugène Poilane

…in 1909. He worked at the naval arsenal for some years, until he chanced to meet naturalist Auguste Chevalier, who after the First World War appointed Poilane as a prospector…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…Meyer, and V. punctata F. G. Meyer, all published in “New species of Valeriana from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru” in 1965 in Brittonia 17(2); 112-120. Patricia Sullivan’s obituary of F….

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…Carolina College for Women World War II Enlistment Records: National Archives and Records Administration. Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 [Archival Database]; ARC: 1263923. World War II Army Enlistment…

Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…Tar Heel (DTH). Newspaper is an essential item for plant collectors, as each specimen is placed in a fold of newspaper in the plant press. Fortuitously, the DTH is the