66 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Gordonia puhescens. 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. 



Oyrilla racemiflora, proved hardy, according to Xuttall, 

 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, 9-1), 

 was also hardy here. 



Rhamnus Furshiana was discovered in 1805 or 1806 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 laurifolium, 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. 



jEscuIus Hippocastanum was brought for the first time 

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



Quercus Fhellos %. A specimen of this peculiar tree 



*A notice of this tree was published in Thomas Meehans Ihe American 

 Hand-book of Ornamental Trees, p. 127. Discovered in 1765 near Fort Barrington, 

 on the Altamaha River in Georgia, and named Franklinia in honor of Franklin. 



t Sargent — Garden and Forest, ix, 76. 



J Sargent— iSi^ta of North America, viii, 180. 



