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for more tender exotics, then by “ flowers for the pleasure- 
gardens/’ and also a part devoted to fruits. The great value 
of the part published is that it mentions all the synonyms, and 
refers to many previous writers to identify each plant, and 
gives the history of the introduction of some of the new 
varieties ; their monograph on the honeysuckle, which occupies 
several pages, is of great worth. They also refer to good 
specimens of trees in some well-Lnown London gardens. The 
following is an instance; the Service tree (= Pyrus sorbus), 
“ In the garden which was formerly in the possession of John 
Tradescant at South Lambeth, as also at Mr. Marsh's at 
Hammersmith,,,a curious collector of rare and uncommon trees, 
in both which places these Trees annually produce large 
quantities of Fruits which ripen perfectly well/’ Again, there 
is a note added to the description of the “ Three Thorned 
Acacia or Locust Tree" ( = Gleditschia triacanthos) , “ that it 
hath produced pods in the gardens of the Bishop of London 
at Fulham this year 1729 .’ n The naturalist Catesby is often 
referred to in these pages as the introducer of several plants. 
The following are among the number : Bignonia Americana, 
the Catalpa, which had not flowered in England in 1730 ; the 
yellow-berried Hawthorn (= Cratcegus flava) , sent from Carolina 
in 1724 ; the Carolina Ash (= Fraxinus Caroliniana), “ 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 frutescens), 1724, which 
had only flowered (in 1730) in Robert Furber’s garden at Ken¬ 
sington ; the scarlet flowering Acacia, and the “ Water Acacia ” 
( = Gleditschia triacanthos inermis), both sent home in 1723. 
Mark Catesby was an eminent naturalist. He first collected 
in Virginia, 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 six or seven years, and during his 
stay sent home seeds from time to time. On his return in 
1726, he began his great work, Natural History of Carolina , 
Florida, and the Bahama Islands, the first part of which was 
published 1731. The genus Catesbsea, or lily-thorn, was named 
after him by his contemporary, Gronovius, the Dutch naturalist. 
1 This tree only died in 1906. 
