Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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2, 1808
John Lewis Russell, American & Botanist

In 1874, Edmund Willson wrote,

"Wherever this man went to fill a , lovers of gravitated to him. [They went along] to the , steep , and miry .

His talk & kindling eyes as he described the
of and the of & quickened their of .

He had an ear for the of the , , [and] -coated ."

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