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products from England, forwarded by Collinson and 

 his friends, such as the cones of the cedar of Lebanon, 

 Spanish and horse chestnuts, and a series of bulbs. 

 Philip Miller once sent him sixty-nine sorts of seeds 

 plums, nectarines, apricots, etc. Linaria, chrysanthe- 

 mum, hypericum, Scotch thistle, geranium, polyanthus, 

 meadow-sweet these and many more flowers from the 

 old country bloomed in the garden on the banks of the 

 Schuylkill ; the four first mentioned took indeed rather 

 too kindly to American soil. 



Collinson came into touch in the course of years with 

 several noblemen of liberal minds, interested in natural 

 pursuits. Some of them were young and talented, such 

 as Robert Lord Petre, the Earl of Jersey, and the Dukes 

 of Richmond, Norfolk and Bedford. He showed them 

 his North American plants, and induced them to take a 

 share in importing them for the adornment of their own 

 gardens. It was arranged with Bartram that he should 

 send over every year boxes of seeds, each containing 

 105 sorts, at a fixed price of five guineas per box. The 

 kinds included many varieties of the best forest trees 

 and flowering shrubs. The list is as follows : 



Weymouth Pine or White Pine or Mast Pine. 



Hemlock Spruce Fir (* Abies canadensis Michx.). 



Tulip Tree. 



White Ash. 



Swamp Pine (apparently Pinus palustris Mill., australis Michx. 



See Hortus Collinsonianus). 

 2 & 3 Leaved Pine (? P. Tceda L. or serotina Michx., the 



" Loblolly Pine," an object of much search to Bartram). 

 Jersey Pine. 



Small Magnolia (M. glauca L.). 

 Red Flowering Mapple. 

 Striped Bark Mapple. 

 Silver Leaved Mapple. 

 Sugar Mapple (*Acer saccharinum L.). 

 Dwarf Mountain Mapple. 

 Chinquapin (Castanea pumila Willd.). 

 Sweet Chesnutt. 

 Poplar Leaved Birch. 

 Sarssefrass (Laurus sassafras L.). 

 Beech Mast. 



