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Plants introduced by Lee & Kennedya

Spengeliai incarnata 	1793 [tick]ii
Gladiolus longiflorus	1794 [tick]
Lachenalia quadricolor	1789 [tick]
Pittosporum coriaceum	1783 [tick]
Echium argenteum		1789 [tick]
Banksia ericifolia		1788
Aristea major			1794 [tick]
Hermannia pulverata	1796
Brunsfelsiaiii undulata         1784 [tick]
Hypoxis linearis		1792
Anemone palmata		1788 [tick]
Melealeuce ericafoliaiv        1788 [tick]
Malva divaricata		1792
Gardenia tubiflora		1789
Ixia speciosa			1778 [tick]
Gladiolus campanulatisv     1794 [tick]
Zinnia verticillata		1789 [tick]
Platylobium scolopendrium	1792 [tick]
Antholizavi fulgens	         1792 [tick]
Ixia columnaris		1794 [tick]
Platylobium lanceolatum	1792 [tick]
Dracaena borealis		1776 [tick]
Lasiopetalum ferruginiumvii1791 [tick]
Geranium Melan[an]thum	1793 [tick]
Ixia columnaris versicolor	1799 [tick]
Pogonia debilis		1793 [tick]
Ixia columnaris latifolia	1799 [tick]
Westringia rosmarinacea	1791 [tick]
Embothrium Salignum	1791
Embothrium buxifolium	1790
Massonia scabra		1796 [tick]
Protea spicata		1790
Mimosa decurrens		1790
Hypoxis stellata alba	1801
Cytissusviii tomentosus       1798
Geranium selinum		1788
Gladiolus carneus		1800
Protea umbellata		1777
Ixia Columnaris var.    )
       grandiflora )	1790 [tick]
Hebenstretia aurea		1790
Protea glomerata		1789
Platylobium ovatum		1800 [tick]
Monsonia filia		1788
Hibiscus Patersonius	1792 [tick]
Styphelia parviflora		1791 [tick]
Protea Cynaroides		1792
-- cordata			1792
-- candicans			1791
Passiflora aurantia		1792 [tick]
Lachenalia fragrans		1798 [tick]
Daviesia ulicifolia		1792
Protea globosa		1780
Pultenaea Villosa		1801 [tick]
Styphelia viridis		1791 [tick]
Olea apetala			1791 [tick]
Haemanthus multiflorisix     1792 [tick]
Swainsonia galegifolia	1800
Pultenaea ilicifolia		1791
Codon Royeni[i]		1801
Protea anemenifolia	x          1791
Cassurinaxi stricta	         1775
Pultenaea rubi[i]folia	1791 [tick]
Calendula dentata		1790
Cantua Coronopifolia	1801
Narcissus triandrus		1785 [tick]
Lachenalia tricolor		1790 [tick]
Alstroemeria			[No years have been included for the final 3 items]
Budegaxii globosa
Ornithogalum aureum

i Sprengelia
ii All ticks following the year are in a different hand and ink
iii Brunfelsia
iv Melaleuca ericifolia
v campanulatus
vi Antholyza
vii ferrugineum
viii Cytisus
ix multiflorus
x anemonifolia
xi Casuarina
xii Budleja. [The letters 'lea' are added in a different hand and ink above the original listing of this item].


a. Lee and Kennedy were two families of Scottish nurserymen in partnership for three generations at the Vineyard Nursery in Hammersmith. Lewis Kennedy (b. Muthill, c.1721-1782) was gardener to Lord Wilmington at Chiswick, and had a nursery called "The Vineyard" at Hammersmith. James Lee (b. Selkirk, 1715-1795). Lee was a gardener who had apprenticed with Philip Miller at the Chelsea Physic Garden. He became gardener to the 7th Duke of Somerset at the nearby Syon House, and to Lord Islay, later the third Duke of Argyll, at Whitton Park. The Duke of Argyll continued Lee's education and gave him the free use of his library."
Many tropical and sub-tropical plants for British greenhouses and hothouses were first introduced to commerce by Lee and Kennedy. The first China rose was imported by Lee and Kennedy, in 1787, and the next year the first fuchsia, as Fuchsia coccinea now known as F. magellanica, which they had sold at first for a guinea a plant. In 1807 they introduced the dahlia to public cultivation and In 1818 they introduced the French idea of roses grown as standards.
James Lee was a correspondent with Carl Linnaeus, through Lee's connection with the Chelsea Physic Garden. He compiled an introduction to the Linnaean system, An Introduction to Botany, published in 1760, which passed through five editions.
Lewis Kennedy's son John Kennedy (8 October 1759-18 February 1842), raised in the family business, was a frequent contributor to the first five volumes (1799-1803) of the Henry Cranke Andrews publication The Botanist's Repository, for which he wrote most of the notes accompanying the illustrations, and contributed less frequently thereafter. Andrews was his son-in-law. John Kennedy also was the writer of Page's Prodromus, an 1817 scholarly work published under the name of another son-in-law, William Bridgwater Page.
James Lee died in 1795 and was succeeded in the venture by his son, also named James Lee (1754-1824).
In 1818, Lewis Kennedy retired to Eltham, Kent, and his son John Kennedy continued in business with the younger James Lee under the established name.