JOHN BARTRAM AND WILLIAM BARTRAM. 3! 



an Appendix, containing a description of a number of Plants 

 peculiar to America, their uses, virtues, etc." The notes told 



FIG. 2. CYPRESS TREE IN BARTRAM PARK. 

 Circumference at base, 27 feet 6 inches. 



where the plants were found in America, and how they differed 

 from the English varieties. 



John Bartram's son William begins to figure in his father's 

 correspondence when about fifteen years old. At that time 

 Bartram sent some of William's drawings of natural objects to 



