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4 unusual facts about John Bartram


Commersonia

A commonly grown species, C. bartramia is named after John Bartram and known as the brown kurrajong or Christmas kurrajong because it flowers at Christmas.

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

It describes a visit to the famous Pennsylvanian botanist, Mr. John Bertram.

John Bartram High School

The school was named after a famous American Botanist, John Bartram.

Kaaterskill Falls

Early American naturalist John Bartram and his son visited the falls on his famous 1753 expedition to the area.


Syringa vulgaris

Peter Collinson, F.R.S., wrote to the Pennsylvania gardener and botanist John Bartram, proposing to send him some, and remarked that John Custis of Virginia had a fine "collection", which Ann Leighton interpreted as signifying common and Persian lilacs, in both purple and white, "the entire range of lilacs possible" at the time.


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