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Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere, here is my connection to various
plant 
experts.  I am:

27 degrees from Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart is an American businesswoman and television personality, known 
primarily through her Martha Stewart Omnimedia brand, which specializes in
gardening, 
homesteading, and homemaking endeavors.

26 degrees from Liberty Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist, author, botanist,
professor, and Dean 
at Cornell University. He was also cofounder of the American Society for
Horticultural 
Science.

23 degrees from Joseph Banks

17 degrees from Atlee Burpee
A pioneer in the American agriculture industry and the founder of one of
America's 
leading seed companies.

20 degrees from Albert Hitchcock

A leading botanist and especially agrostologist, who travelled widely,
collecting and 
documenting a huge number of grasses and other species, from the Americas and
other 
parts of the world.

20 degrees from Sara Lemmon
Sara assisted her husband in an ambitious effort to catalog the plants of
southern 
Arizona, a part of the world few botanists had yet visited. Sara and John were
equal 
partners in collecting and researching plant specimens

24 degrees from Philippe Andrÿ Lÿvÿque de Vilmorin
a notable French horticulturist.

29 degrees from Gregor Mendel
a meteorologist, mathematician, biologist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St.
Thomas' 
Abbey in Brÿnn

31 degrees from Martin Mÿbius
 when the Botanical Institute of the University in Frankfurt was founded,
Martin Mÿbius 
was named the first director of the Institute.

25 degrees from William Purvis
He brought numerous plants to Hawaii including several from Ceylon including
tea, 
cinchona, Jack, camphor, Natal red grass, Guinea grass, Buffalo grass, Giant
Bamboo, 
Male bamboo, and King coconut palm.

25 degrees from Carl von Linnÿ
Carl von Linnÿ systematized the scientific nomenclature of living things, and
developed a 
hierarchical classification system (kingdoms, classes, orders, genera, and
species). 

This information was taken form WikiTree's website at:
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1409532/which-plant-expert-are-you-most-closely-
connected-to

"Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere, and with all the greening-up
we're 
featuring plant experts, like Martha Stewart in the Connection Finder this
week.

Featured alongside her are:

Liberty Hyde Bailey, co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural
Science
Sir Joseph Banks, botanist and naturalist
Washington Atlee Burpee, founder of Atlee Burpee Seed Co.
Albert Spear Hitchcock, botanist specializing in grass species
Sara Plummer Lemmon, botanical illustrator and cataloger
Pierre Lÿvÿque de Vilmorin, founder of l'Arboretum Vilmorin ÿ Ve
riÿres-le-Buisson
Gregor Mendel, father of botanical genetics
Martin Mÿbius, Director of the Botanical Institute at the Uni versity of
Frankfurt
William Herbert Purvis, prolific plant collector
Carl Linnaeus von Linnÿ, botanist who formalized binomial nomenclature
Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 25.7 million
of us who 
are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection
Finder."

Mike Dippel
 
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