Rbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
. Vol. 17. March, 1915. No. 194. 
WASHINGTON AND MICHAUX. 
C. S. SARGENT. 
THE first part of André Michaux's Journal of his travels in North 
America, covering the time from his arrival in this country in 1785 
until his first visit to South Carolina in 1787, was unfortunately lost 
in the wreck of the ship in which Michaux returned to France, and 
little of his movements in the first years of his visit is known beyond 
the fact that he established a nursery in the neighborhood of New 
York from which he sent seeds and a large number of seedling trees 
back to France. The fact that during this time he paid a visit to 
Washington at Mt. Vernon seems to have generally escaped notice. 
The following extracts from Washington's unpublished Diary, now in 
the Library of Congress, may therefore be of interest to American 
botanists: 
Monday, June 19, 1786. 
“A Monsr. André Michaux, a Botanist sent by the Court of France 
to America (after having been only 6 weeks returned from India) 
came in a little before dinner with letters of introduction and recom- 
mendation from the Duke de Lauzen and Marqs. de la Fayette to me 
— he dined and returned afterwards to Alexandria, on his way to 
New York, from whence he had come; and where he was about to 
establish a Botanical Garden." 
Thursday, June 29. 
" Planted in one row between the Cherokee Plumb and the honey 
locust, back of the No. Garden adjoining the green House (where the 
Spanish Chestnuts had been placed and were rotten) 25 of the Paliurus, 
