Eliza Frances Andrews

Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, 1840 – January 21, 1931) was an American journalist, essayist, novelist, educator, botanist, and author of two textbooks on botany. She donated more than 3000 plant specimens that she collected with Alvan Wentworth Chapman to the Alabama Department of Agriculture.

Quotes

• There was hardly a fence left standing all the way from Sparta to Gordon. The fields were trampled down and the road was lined with carcasses of horses, hogs, and cattle that the invaders, unable either to consume or to carry away with them, had wantonly shot down to starve out the people and prevent them from making their crops. The stench in some places was unbearable; every few hundred yards we had to hold our noses or stop them with the cologne Mrs. Elzey had given us, and it proved a great boon. The dwellings that were standing all showed signs of pillage, and on every plantation we saw the charred remains of the gin-house and packing-screw, while here and there, lone chimney-stacks, " Sherman's Sentinels," told of homes laid in ashes.
• The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1908. p. 32.  text at archive.org (See Arnold Elzey.)

• The miserable, money loving wretches that these Yankees are: they even have the impudence to paint their advertisements of paper collars and patent medicines upon the Palisades and the rocks that jut from the Highlands of the Hudson.
  • Rushing, S. Kittrell "Kit", ed (2002). Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870-1872. University of Tennessee Press. p. 22. ISBN 9781572331716.  an interview with Kit Rushing

• ... by far the most active agent in the dissemination of both fruits and seeds is man. This is the frequent result of intention on his part, in the introduction and cultivation of new grains, fruits, and vegetables, and he works to the same end unconsciously and often to his great detriment by the transportation of the bulbs or seeds of pernicious weeds in the dirt clinging to hoes and plowshares, and the mixture of impurities with his crop seeds through ignorance, carelessness, or unavoidable causes. This mode of dispersal, however, is purely artificial, and except in the case of a few weeds that have adjusted themselves to the conditions of cultivation, is not correlated with any special adaptations in the plants themselves, many of our most widely distributed weeds, such as the rib grass, or common plantain, the mayweed, and the narrow-leaved sneezeweed, possessing very imperfect natural means of dispersal.
  • Botany All the Year Round: A Practical Text-book for Schools. American Book Company. 1903. p. 102.  (302 pages)

• A very remarkable development of aërial roots takes place in the "strangling fig" of Mexico and Florida, which begins life as a small epiphyte, from seeds dropped by birds on the boughs or trunks of trees. When it gets well started, the young plant sends down enormous aërial roots, which find their way to the ground, and in time so completely envelop the host that it is literally strangled to death ... When this support is removed, the sheathing roots take its place and becomes to all intents and purposes the stem of the fig tree, which now leads an independent life.
  • A Practical Course in Botany. American Book Company. 1911. p. 78.  (374 pages; with editorial revision by Francis Ernest Lloyd)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Eliza Frances Andrews on Wikipedia
• Media related to Eliza Frances Andrews on Wikimedia Commons
• Eliza Frances "Fanny" Andrews; Botanist, Educator, Writer; 2006 Inductee, Georgia Women of Achievement. (georgiawomen.org).