The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . I^ hardeners JJlonthlg. 1^ 271 SKETCHES of PHILADELPHIA BOTANISTS 1!Y III.—JOHN AND WILLIAM BARTRAM ANDHUMPHREY MARSHALL. In close connexion with the nnmcs of Collinsou anj Fothcrgill, we place those of John and WilliamBartram ami Humphrey Marshall, the first honoringthe Bartramia a moss growing among the dampmountain rocks of Berkshire, Massachusetts ; thelatter the genius Marshallia, composite plantsfound in the Southern States ; their researches in theirown Pennsylvania, it would seem, having left nonefor later discoverers to name in
The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . I^ hardeners JJlonthlg. 1^ 271 SKETCHES of PHILADELPHIA BOTANISTS 1!Y III.—JOHN AND WILLIAM BARTRAM ANDHUMPHREY MARSHALL. In close connexion with the nnmcs of Collinsou anj Fothcrgill, we place those of John and WilliamBartram ami Humphrey Marshall, the first honoringthe Bartramia a moss growing among the dampmountain rocks of Berkshire, Massachusetts ; thelatter the genius Marshallia, composite plantsfound in the Southern States ; their researches in theirown Pennsylvania, it would seem, having left nonefor later discoverers to name in their ir39 These worthy students of nature were farmers,and the sons of farmers, and while cultivating theirpaternal acres, found lime for the pursuit of Botani-cal science.* These sons of the soil were self educatedmen, surrounded daily with objects of interest, theycould not pass them unheeded by, nor close theireyes to the wonders and beauties of the varied crea-tion. They regarded with scrutinizing curiosity, theinfinite variety of plants unknown, and of course un-described in the volume of the botanist, and knew nohigher pleasure than the study of the forms wonder-fully diversified, with which our forests abound. Theenthusiasm with which they devoted themselves to
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