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FOREIGN 



PLANTS. 



rnnlcc it my bufinefs to prepare fomething or other, 

 bxT'the time I can expe£l to have the favour of a few Unes 

 from you, I moft fincerely wifh you fuccefs, and am, Sir, 



Your moft obedient 



r 



Humble Servant, 



Penfacola, Jan. 7, 1 769 



J. L O R I M E R 



A Catalogue offuch FOREIGN PI.ANTS as are -worthy ofhehig encouraged hi our American Colo- 

 nies for thcpurpofcs of Mcdk'we, Agriculture, and Commerce. 



[From a Pamphlet ly JOHN ElXf S, F. R. S Prcfented by the fl^lflt^^^'^J^^^^ f' 



^ to the American Philofophical Society, through the hands of SAMUi^L POWELL, I/j.J 



ro a-vad ^confufion in the botanical names, both the gcnericaj and fp^ifc, ortrknalnamesofthep^^^^^^^ 

 arefct do-wn.-with the page referred to in the celebrated Unn^us %fecond edition of his fpeacs oj plant,. 

 Other authors of the bef authority are mentionad, ivhere Unnmis is flent. 



Latin Names, 



Rubia Peregrina 

 Rubia Tinaorum 

 Qucrcus Suber 



Qxjercus -ffigJlops 



adEd.L.Sp.! Englifi Names 



<:^crcus Gallifcra 



Carthamus Tinc- 



toriufi 

 Rliamnus cathar- 

 ticus minor 



p. 158 



p. 158 



p. 1413 



p. 1414 



Par1t:infon, 



I'urkcy Madder 

 Dyers Madder* 

 Cork-bearing oak 



Avellanea or Va- 

 icnida oak 



Gal! -bearing oak 



Lin .vSp. Ii6z SaiHowcr 



Ohfer'vations. 



Thefir/lisfuppofcdtobcthcfamc that is now 



cultivated in Smyrna for a crimfon dye. 

 Grow;; in the ibuthern parts of France, bpain, 



and Portugal. 



^i'he cups of the acorns, which are vei y 1;.. ge, 

 ufcd here in dying, grow in Greece and 

 Natolia, particularly in ihc iltand of Zia 

 in the Archipelago, where 'Vournefort 

 fiiyti they gather in one year 5f/joCwt. 



GalU from Aleppo and Smyrna. This oak 

 is not yet known in Enghuid : The acorns 

 may be brought over in wax, and Tent to 

 thcFloridas, Georgia, andSouth-Carolina. 



Muchufed in dying, grows in Egypt. 



Tournft. ^03 Byckthorns tliot Ufedliy painter;; and dyers; both thefe plants 



^ produce yellow 



RhamWsSaxatiiis|lJn.Sp. i67l!berriesof^^^ 



Olea Europca 



Sefamum Orien- 

 talc 



p. 83.3 



Olives of feveral 

 varieties 



Oily grain 



produce berries litTorthis purpofe. 



i'or oil ; thefe grow in France, Spain, and 

 Italy. Young plants and ripe fruit of the 

 French and Spanifl-i forts, may be brought 



from thence. 

 Propagated in the Levant for oil, which docs 

 notfoon grow rancid by keeping. 



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• Tbi^pUnt is a native of the wartnefl parts of Europe and 1. bettor calculated for the 

 Climate of the Fforidas than either of Holland or England, where it is cultivated; hut prmci- 

 pally in the former from whence we are chiefly fupplled with th.s valuable dye. _ The chemifts 

 Var and with reafon, th.t the warmth of the ( lunate exalts the colour. li lo, M may be well 

 woith the attention of the puMie to encourage the planting ol: io valuable an article of conn 



merre in a climate and foil that fecms To much better adapted to it where the land i. cheap, 

 arKlwherevcgetationisfon-aichcirnckerandmoreluxurrant; and whdewa encourage the gr^^ 



of it in our colonies, we may have the adviintage of mamdaaurmg thiyaluable comtnodJty 

 at home, for wh;cb at prefent we pagf Amis scarcely credible, to the JDuteh. 





