Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder

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Jacob's Ladder

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Jacob's Ladder

 By Brian H. Scott

The biblical Jacob (Gen. 28:12) saw a ladder reaching to heaven in a dream. Sometime in the early eighteenth century an imaginative English gardener saw a resemblance to this biblical ladder in the paired leaflets (one above the other) of Polemonium caeruleum, a blue-flowered member of the phlox family, and dubbed it “Jacob's ladder.”


 
 
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