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unusual facts about Peter Collinson



Beckenham Place Park

Cator, reputed to be friends with Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and son-in-law of Peter Collinson, introduced many exotic tree species and a lake, which is now dry.

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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