66 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Gordonia pubescens. All of the specimens in cultivation 

 are descendants of the plants collected by the Bartrams and 

 Marshall. The specimen plants by John Bartram was 

 described as thirty feet high by Wm. Wynne, writing to Lou- 

 don's Gardeners' Magazine (viii, 272), in Nov. 1831, when the 

 tree was in flower.* The large tree in the garden was 

 blown down a few years since. Wm. DeHart, who knew the 

 Bartrams, has a descendant of the large tree in his garden 

 (1899) on Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, about thirty 

 feet high. There are trees also nearly as large in Fair- 

 mount Park and Meehan's nurseries. 



Cyrilla racemiflora, proved hardy, according to Nuttall, 

 in the garden, where in 1840 he found a specimen twenty 

 feet high and twenty-six inches in diameter. 



Cliftonia ligustrina, according to Nuttall (Silva II, 94), 

 was also hardy here. 



RJiamnus Purshiana was discovered in 1805 or 1800 in 

 what is now Montana, by the members of the trans-conti- 

 nental expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark.f 

 In 1838 Rafinesque describes in the " Sylva Telluriana " 

 his Personon laarifolium, from a plant which he found in 

 Bartram's garden. This is the earliest record of the culti- 

 vation of the tree, for there does not seem to be much doubt 

 that it was this plant which Rafinesque had in mind. 



.I'^culus Hippocastanum was brought for the first time 

 in America from seed sent in April, 1746, to John Bartram. 



(Jutrcus Phellos %. A specimen of this peculiar tree 



*A notice of this tree was published in Thomas MVrlmn s 'the American 

 Hand-book of Ornamental Trees, p. 127. Discovered in 17ii-> near Fort Barrington, 

 on the Altanmlm Kiver in Umrtria, and named Fraiiklinia in honor of Franklin. 



I S\KI,KNT Garden and Forest, iv, 7ii. 



T Silva of Xorlh America, viii, 180. 



