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<div class="column"><p class=""><font face="BerkeleyStd-Medium-SC700" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Isabella</span>’<span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">s Peppermint Flowers is now for sale online at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas..</span></font></p><div class=""><a href="http://shop.brit.org/products/peppermint" class="">http://shop.brit.org/products/peppermint</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John Clayton’s first flora of Virginia was also filled with many medicinal uses of plants and this book touches on this topic as well as introducing children to the basics of botany.</div><p class=""><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'BerkeleyStd-Medium-SC700'" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><font face="BerkeleyStd-Medium-SC700" class="">Susan Leopold</font></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: BerkeleyStd;" class="">, with illustrations by Nicky Staunton. 2014. </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'BerkeleyStd'; font-weight: 800" class="">Isabella’s Peppermint Flowers. </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: BerkeleyStd;" class="">(ISBN 978-0-692-</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: BerkeleyStd;" class="">33302-0) </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: BerkeleyStd;" class="">For the young aspiring botanist, this book will be a treasure. The story of two girls who go flower-hunting with
their mother becomes an introduction to the basics of botany, augmented by the excellent illustrations. The
author incorporates the historical context of botanical pioneers including an introduction to Linneaus, John
Clayton, and John Gronovius in the State of Virginia. Terms and names used in the context of the story are
clarified in the definitions at the end. This book is an excellent teaching text for beginning botanists.—</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: BerkeleyStd; font-style: italic;" class="">Pamela
Edmondson, Volunteer, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: BerkeleyStd;" class="">What a fantastic and unique resource for both children and their caretakers! Author Susan Leopold uses the
story of two sisters and a mother walking in the woods to introduce the basics of taxonomy, floristics, and plant
collecting, all while dropping in asides about binomial nomenclature, rare and endangered species, and bo-
tanical history. True, the story focuses in part on the history of the flora of Virginia, but the overall message is
universal: inspiring a sense of place and an appreciation of the natural world. For the sake of encouraging a new
generation of botanists, it would be a wonderful thing to see books like this for all 50 states.—</span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'BerkeleyStd'; font-style: italic" class="">Brooke Byerley
Best, PhD, Editor & Botanist, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A. </span></p><div class="">
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Susan Leopold, PhD<br class="">Executive Director, United Plant Savers<br class=""><a href="http://www.unitedplantsavers.org" class="">www.unitedplantsavers.org</a><br class="">&<br class="">Director of the Sacred Seeds Sanctuary <br class="">www.sacredseedssanctuary.org<br class=""><br class="">susan@unitedplantsavers.org<br class="">703 667 0208<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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