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[librarycompany]

Using a simple method of inking both sides of a specimen and pressing between folded paper, Joseph Breintnall’s leaf prints show Philadelphia’s local natural beauty. This page from his two volume album has a few feathers in the mix, or are the leaves fallen from birds? 

Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746.  [Nature prints of leaves]. [ca. 1731-ca. 1744]  2 volumes (368 prints): printer's ink on paper.

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[colinpurrington]

Moss phlox (Phlox subulata) growing at a serpentine barrens. Serpentinite is a green, metamorphic rock that leaches magnesium, chromium, iron, nickel, and cobalt that, together with unusually low concentrations of calcium, tend to stunt plant growth and limit which species can survive. Serpentine barrens are unique and slowly disappearing, but there are still a few in Pennsylvania. This photograph was taken at the one closest to me, Pink Hill, at Tyler Arboretum in Media, PA. And Natural Lands Trust manages several more in the area — just check out its website for details.

[seedkeeping]

A big ol ash tree fell on a couple of our beds today at Roughwood Seed Collection, wiping out some beets, peppers, tomatoes, rhubarb, runner beans, gladiolus, etc. but not destroying any of those plantings entirely. It also took out a quarter of our Franklinia Tree (Franklinia alatamaha), native to the Alatamaha River Valley in Georgia, and named in Philadelphia by John Bartram's son William after his father's dear friend Ben. Extinct in 'the wild' for hundreds of years now, it is grown as a rare plant around the world, and it is assumed all plants that exist today have a common ancestor in the seed William propagated around 1781 at Bartram's Garden, which incidentally is where my partner Chris co-runs a farm now. I brought these bags of Franklinia leaves home to make tea which is really the point of this story: Franklinia is in the same family as Camellia, a genus that includes what we know as tea. It makes a tasty beverage similar to green tea, but without the caffein. There are current studies that hypothesize that Franklinia offers similar health benefits as green tea. One other note: according to the same researcher, it's flowers only last about a day, and seem to intoxicate bees - like fall down drunk. Hopefully our tree will heal well and prosper, for the bees' sake.

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