page_title: Louisa Boyd Yeomans King
section_title: Recognition and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Louisa Boyd Yeomans King / Recognition and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Marker honoring Louisa Boyd Yeomans King. "In Honor of Mrs. Francis King/Founder and First President of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association/This garden is dedicated by its members and given to the nation/May 1952" National Arboretum Dogwood Collection, Washington, D.C.
context_page_description: Louisa Boyd Yeomans King was an American gardener and author who became a leading advocate of gardening and horticulture, especially in connection with the garden club movement. She wrote on horticultural topics as Mrs. Francis King.
context_section_description: King was once toasted by the Prince of the Netherlands, tongue-in-cheek, as the "King of America", and she has also been called the "fairy godmother of gardening in America", the "dean of American gardeners", and "the best-beloved and best-known American woman gardener" of her era. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society.  In 1921, she became the first woman to receive the George Robert White Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The Medal of Honor (also known as the Gold Medal) of the Garden Club of America was bestowed on her in 1923, making her the second recipient (after Charles Sprague Sargent) of one of the GCA's highest awards and one that was given out only four times in the first two decades of the GCA's existence.
  Cultivars of tulip, gladiolus, and daffodil have been named for her, and the Dogwood Collection at the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., was created in her honor.
caption: Marker honoring Louisa Boyd Yeomans King.  National Arboretum Dogwood Collection, Washington, D.C.
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