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A small history of the Plants of Canada by Cornuti ap- 
peared in Paris in 1635. About the year 1740 was published 
Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, &c. in 2 vols. large 
folio, illustrated with a great number of highly coloured figures 
&c.° Gronovius edited the Flora Virginiea of 
Clayton, at Leyden, in 1759. In the Memoirs of the Ame- 
rican Academy, Dr. Cutler printed his Account of the Vege- 
table Productions of the New England States ; and, in 1788, 
Walter’s Flora Caroliniana appeared in London. | 
- The elder Bartram, during his extensive and interesting 
travels, discovered many curious plants, and was the means 
of making them known to the botanists of Europe, especially 
of Britain. His friend and patron, Mr. Peter Collinson, who 
kept up a constant correspondence with him, Colden, and 
other naturalists of America, was one of the first to cultivate 
lants of that country in England, which he did with 
much success, at his charming garden at Mill Hill, near Lon- 
don. Dr. Garden was another eminent promoter of American 
botany, and in his communications to Linneus, he sent many 
new and interesting plants. His botanical enthusiasm seems 
to have been very great; and we have some striking proofs of 
it lately published by Sir J. E. Smith, in the Linnzan corres- 
pondence. In one of those letters, addressed to the illus- 
trious Swede from South Carolina, Dr. Garden thus expresses 
himself on the occasion of his being disappointed of an in- 
tended journey to the Apalachee mountains, by an order for 
the expedition to return. ‘In my letters,” he says, “to you 
at that time, [ gave you an account of my intended journey, 
and in what manner the arrival of our new governor put a 
stop to us. Good God! is it possible to imagine the shock I 
received when the unhappy express overtook us, just two 
day’s march on this side of the mountains? My prospect of 
‘lutting my very soul with the view of the southern parts of 
Supreme Architect! How happy should I have been to hayg 
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