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(07-14-2020 02:54 PM)Steve Wrote:  I don't know if this is going to be of any help but one of Herndon's informants, Elizabeth Crawford, gave him a list of wildflowers that grew in Spencer Co:


https://books.google.com/books?id=s2gilc...22&f=false

At the last, just before making the following post, I found out that the hyperlink could be expanded to include what I retyped below from another source, Herndon's Informants.

The flower listing is somewhat incomplete as shown on the hyperlink. Elizabeth Crawford added the following “cultivated” flowers to the list of flowers:

Now I will give you the names of some of the garden flowers that was cultivated in this country by the first settlers, or nearly so, say in 1824 – 26, and on for several years, some of them till this time [May 3, 1866, date of the letter]. The sweet pink, the poppy, the marigold, the larkspur, the forget-me-not (she actually wrote “techmenot,” as in touch-me-not, I believe), the “pritty by night,” the lady in the green, the sword lily - the flower been the hollyhock, the bachelor’s buttens – those buttens the girls use to string and hang them up in their houses for an ornament; thay ware verry* pritty, as thay war white . . . .

* Note: For a long time, Lincoln misspelled the word “verry” this same way.

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Lincoln and flowers - Rob Wick - 07-14-2020, 07:41 AM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - RJNorton - 07-14-2020, 12:45 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - Rob Wick - 07-14-2020, 02:14 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - Steve - 07-14-2020, 02:54 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - David Lockmiller - 07-21-2020 10:24 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - Rob Wick - 07-14-2020, 03:34 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - Gene C - 07-14-2020, 03:36 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - RJNorton - 07-14-2020, 03:52 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - Rob Wick - 07-14-2020, 04:41 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - Eva Elisabeth - 07-16-2020, 07:58 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - Rob Wick - 07-16-2020, 10:43 PM
RE: Lincoln and flowers - Steve Whitlock - 07-17-2020, 12:08 AM
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RE: Lincoln and flowers - Donna McCreary - 07-17-2020, 08:19 PM
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RE: Lincoln and flowers - David Lockmiller - 07-17-2020, 12:38 PM
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RE: Lincoln and flowers - David Lockmiller - 07-19-2020, 11:51 AM
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