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it hath produced pods in the f^ardens of the Bishop of L)nflon 

 at I'ulhain this \ear 1729." The Naturahst Catesby is often 

 referred to in those pa<;es, as the introducer of several plants. 

 The follo\\in_i; are among the number: — ■" Bignonia Americana," 

 the Catalpa, wliich had not flowered in England in 1730 ; 

 the yellow-berried hawthorn (= Cvatac^^us flava), sent from 

 Carolina in 1724 : the Carolina ash (^ Fraxinics cavoliniana) 

 " raised from seeds sent over from South Carolina by Mr. 

 Catesby, anno 1724; Tilia Caroliniana (^ T. americana) in 1726; 

 the Carolina kidney bean tree (= Wistaria fructcsccns), 1724, 

 which had only flowered (in i/jo) in Robert Furber's garden at 

 Kensington ; the scarlet flowering acacia, and the '" ^^'ater 

 Acacia "' (= Glcditschia tvican'.hus ijurinis), both sent home 

 in 1723. 



Mark Catesby \vas an eminent naturalist. He flrst 

 collected in \'irginia, and being induced by Sir Hans Sloane 

 and others to return to America to work still further in the 

 cause of science, he went out again for some bix or seven 

 }ears, and during his stay sent home seeds from time to time. 

 On his return in 1726, he began his great work, Xatiiral 

 History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, the 

 fl.st part of which was published 1731. The genus Catesbaea 

 or lil\-thorn, was named after him b\- his contemporarv, 

 Gronovius, the Dutch naturalist. 



The most celebrated member of this Society of Gardeners 

 was Philip Miller, keeper of the Chelsea Physic-garden, and 

 author of a well-known Gardener's Dictionary, This work flrst 

 appeared in 1731, and was so popular, that a seventh edition was 

 brought out in 1759, and it was translated into Dutch, German, 

 and French. Each successive edition shows some progress in 

 the science of botany, and an immense increase in the number 

 of foreign plants. In the seventh edition. Miller adopted the 

 Linnaean system of classification. Miller had become acquainted 

 with the great Swede during his visit to England in 1736. 

 It was the year following that Linnaeus" flrst great work, 

 which revolutionized classiflcation. Genera Plantarnm, appeared. 

 Miller was a man well suited to the work he undertook: he 

 was l):)tli practical and scientilic : he first followed the s}stem 



