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The Flower Hunter’s Trail

The Seminoles called him Puc Puggy — the Flower Hunter. He earned it.In the spring of 1775, William Bartram rode into the Cherokee mountains of western North Carolina and stayed barely two months. He never stopped writing. Travels, the book he made of that journey, appeared in 1791 and has been keeping readers company ever since — a young Philadelphia Quaker, astonished at every turn, working himself into raptures over what he called “vegetable beauties.”On Wednesday, agosto 12 at noon, Universi