Archive image from page 162 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer01bail1 Year: 1900 BARRY BASKET PLANTS 133 that of a pioneer. He must be considered in the front rank of poraological authors, with the Dowuings, Warder, and Thomas, whose combined weight gave a great impulse towards establislii
Archive image from page 162 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer01bail1 Year: 1900 BARRY BASKET PLANTS 133 that of a pioneer. He must be considered in the front rank of poraological authors, with the Dowuings, Warder, and Thomas, whose combined weight gave a great impulse towards establisliiug orcharding on a large scale in America. For a fuller account, with portrait, see 'Annals of Horticulture,' 1890, 287-290. w. M. BABT6NIA. See Mentzelia. BAETRAM, JOHN. Called by Linnus the greatest natural botanist in the world. Was born at Marple, near Darby, Pennsylvania, JXar. 23, 1699, and died Sept. 22, 1777. He was a Quaker farmer, who became interested in botany after the age of twenty-four. In 1728, at King- sessing, on the Schuylkill River, he established the first botanic garden in America, which, together with his house, built in 1731, of stone hewn by his own hands, Is happily preserved to-day as part of the park system of Philadelphia. He traveled much in America, and was for many years the chief medium of exchange between Europe and America of plants of all kinds, especially new and important species, as I?hododendron maximum and Cyprlpediuni acacle. His correspondence with Peter Collinson lasted nearly half a century. The let- ters, preserved to us in Darlington's 'Memorials of John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall,' are rich in botanical, historical and general interest. 'Observa- tions on the Inhabitants niade by John Bar- tram in his Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego, and the Lake Ontario « « London, 1751,' is similarly readable, and a document of great value in the study of aboriginal races. At the age of seventy he undertook, with his so
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