Archive for January 3rd, 2008
Burdock in Paris
The New York Times ran a piece in it’s travel section over the holidays about Georges-Louis Leclerc, the Comte de Buffon. Buffon was, along with Linnaeus, one of the great early botanists and naturalists. Among other things, Buffon built the Jardins des Plantes — that enormous garden on the banks of the Seine. I’d never […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2008 under other, gardening.
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