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Shortly after Catesby's last paper on the cabbage-tree, John 
Bartram! referred to it several times in a work by William Stork 
that appeared in 1765, under the following title: 
“An ACCOUNT oF EAsT FLORIDA: WITH A JOURNAL KEPT BY 
JouNn BartRAM, OF PHILADELPHIA, BoTaNist TO His MaJEsTy 
FOR THE sees YEON A JOURNEY FROM St. AUGUSTINE UP 
Tue RIVER St. Jou 
‘“We now came to ae nty of the tree palmetto, which the 
inhabitants call cabbage-tree, and is much eaten both raw and 
boiled 
troughs or conduits to carry water from place to place above- 
ground.” 
- e cut down three tall palms or cabbage- -trees, 
f 
cabbage. 
nters ee eat it raw, and will live upon it 
several days 
ped on a descending bank on the back of 
whieh was Ae a and dw at Daler o or chamaerops; here 
we cooked a fine mess of palm-cabbage.’ 
1 John Bartram was born 23 March 1699, at Marple, near Darby, Pennsyl- 
vania. He had been a farmer for several years before he became interested 
in botany, and. was then for the most part, and of necessity, as he knew no 
in the science, self-taught. He traveled widely, from New 
York to etre and corresponded with various eminent naturalists abroad, 
especially with Collinson of London, who , like himself, a member of the 
Society of Friends. About 1729, Bartram establi: at Kingsessing, then a 
pee but now a gas of the city of eeu the first botanic garden in 
rly fift 
ie and eee a a as ooh poured ante the gardens of Europe. Jn 
re 
appoii ointment sates ae in pes of advancing age, to extend’ his 
cientifi travels. In that year a ae the next, accompanie ied by his son, he 
He died 
t Kingsessing, 22 September 1777. = H. B. 
k, by Willia 
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