Keeping Up With Conservation: Conserving Lakela’s Mint
In February, the Rare Plant Conservation Program (RPCP) began propagation of Lakela’s Mint, Dicerandra immaculata var. immaculata, to produce plants from cuttings to augment a natural population in Vero Beach. […]
A Bewildered Bok: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 32
One of the misfortunes of Edward Bok’s training, which he realized more clearly as time went on, was that music had little or no place in his life. His mother did […]
Adventures in Civics: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 31
The electric power companies at Niagara Falls were beginning to draw so much water from above the great Horseshoe Falls as to bring into speculation the question of how soon America’s […]
Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and other Evils: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 30
In 1892 The Ladies’ Home Journal announced that it would thereafter accept no advertisements of patent medicines for its pages. It was a pioneer stroke. During the following two years, seven […]
Keeping Up with Conservation: The National Collection Beds
The National Collection beds are a living museum of rare plants cared for in sixty 12’x25’ growing beds. Each plant is accessioned and assigned and individual number tag to identify […]
An Excursion into Feminine Nature: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 29
The strangling hold which the Paris couturiers had secured on the American woman in their absolute dictation as to her fashions in dress, had interested Edward Bok for some time. As […]
Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecturer: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 28
It was in June, 1899, when Rudyard Kipling, after the loss of his daughter and his own almost fatal illness from pneumonia in America, sailed for his English home on the […]
