A Piece of History
YOUR CHANCES OF FINDING a Franklin tree (Franklinia alatamaha) growing in the wild is somewhere between nil and zilch.
The last time one was spotted growing in its native southern Georgia habitat was in 1803 when John Lyon, a nurseryman and plant hunter, found a stand growing near the mouth of the Altamaha River near Darien, south of Savannah. There the river empties into a bay, across which lies Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge, and
