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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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