JOHN BARTRAM 57 



again to the correspondence of Linnaeus, Garden 

 says to Ellis ( 1 765 ) , with a generous enthusiasm : 



" You tell me you are surprised that I over- 

 looked a new species of the live oak which John 

 Bartram found near Charleston. Let me assure 

 you that John Bartram received from me these 

 very specimens, some of the Phillyrea and many 

 others, from my Hortus Siccus, of which he has, 

 it seems, made a different -use from what I ap- 

 prehended. Yet, after all, he is an excellent man 

 and I forgive him, because it is a matter of little 

 moment who declares the glories of God, pro- 

 vided they are not passed over in silence." 



The two always seemed good friends and 

 freely exchanged specimens. Bartram grumbles 

 a little at some of his European correspondents 

 " who write to me as freely for the Carolina 

 plants as if they thought I could get them as 

 easily as they do the plants in the European gar- 

 dens; that is, to walk at their leisure along the 

 alleys and dig what they please out of the beds 

 without the danger of life 'or limb." 



Still, he had compensations at home, for he 

 says (1762) : " I have received a lovely parcel 

 this Spring from Mrs. Logan, 6 my ' fascinated 

 widow.' I have also fascinated two men's wives, 

 although one I never saw, that is, Mrs. Lamboll, 

 who hath sent me two noble cargoes." 



"A great florist, who married at fifteen and wrote a Treatise on 

 Gardening when seventy years old. 



