Hortus Collinsonianus. An account of the plants cultivated by the late Peter Collinson, arranged alphabetically according to their modern names. From the catalogue of his garden, and other manuscripts. Not published / [L.W. Dillwyn].
- Lewis Weston Dillwyn
- Date:
- 1843
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hortus Collinsonianus. An account of the plants cultivated by the late Peter Collinson, arranged alphabetically according to their modern names. From the catalogue of his garden, and other manuscripts. Not published / [L.W. Dillwyn]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ruseus hypoglossum. |. * Ruscus bis Lingua, fructu folio innascente. Tourn. hypophyllum. | ** Ruscus latifolius, fructu folio innascente. Tourn. Ruta graveolens. | ** Ruta major hortensis. Mor. Hist. Salisburia adiantifolia. Not in Catalogue. Mem.—-** Tuesday, June 9,1767. Mr. Gordon, senior and junior, dined at Mill Hill, and brought me in a pot what Dr. Kzemfer, in his Amoncetates Exoticee, p. 812, names Ginko vel Ginau, arbor nucifera folio adiantino. I planted it against a soutli wall; stood very well all the last winter, which was very severe, 1767-8, and thrives finely. When I visited Ridgway House, at the beginning of the present century, if I am not greatly mistaken, this tree remained there against a south wall. Salix babylonica. —** Salix orientalis flagellis deorsum. Tourn. Mem.—-'* Mr. Vernon, Turkey merchant at Aleppo, transplanted the Weeping Willow from the River Euphrates, and brought it with him to England, and planted it at his seat at T wicken- ham Park, where I saw it growing, anno 1748. This is the original of all the Willows in our gardens. In July, 1765, I measured a Weeping Willow at Mr. Snelling's, at Godalmin, Surrey, of but fifleen years' standing; it measured six feet in girtli, or two feet in diameter, and the height in proportion. In the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, on the authority of L'Heritier's Sertum Anglicanum, this species is said to liave been first introduced in 1730, but the date in the second edition has been altered to 1692, from a reliance on Plukenet's, t. 173, f. 5, which on examination of the original specimen at the British Museum, I found to be an entirely different plant. By the Catalogus Plantarum, published by a Society of Gardeuers, in 1730, it appears then to have been cultivated in our nurseries. pentandra. **Salix folio laureo odorato. Phyt. Brit. —— purpurea. Not in Catalogue. As Mr. Collinson could not have been unacquainted with the S. Helix (i.e. the No. 11 of Ray's Synopsis), the Willow sent for the opinion of Dillenius, as mentioned at p. 35, is more likely to have been S. purpurea, which in 1739 had most probably not been distinguished by the British Botanists from that species, nor was it known in our shrubberies when the Society of Gardeners published their Catalogue in 1730.* Salvia canariensis. **Sclaria folio barbato triangularis frutescens flore pur« pureo. - ceratophylla. —** Sclarea rugosa verrucosa Cornu Cervi folio et laciniato folio. Clary. Tourn. ——- glutinosa, —**Sclarea glutinosa, floribus lutei ....... Colus Jovis. Boerb. Ind. It again appears under C in the Catalogue, as ** Colus Jovis. ——- Horminwm. **Horminum Coma purpurea et rubra. J. B. — —- qexicanum, *'Sclarea mexicana altissima flore purpureo. Hort, E]t. - officinalis. ** Salvia major foliis rubro, albo, et luteo variegatis. Boerh. Ind. * This spirited undertaking, in folio, which in all respects is ryguch more than a mere Catalogue, contains coloured figures of upwards of fifty species, from drawings by Van Huysum, and though published equally in the name of the whole Society, Mr. Miller is supposed to have been the principal contributor. His copy ofthe work is in my Library, and the additions, which follow in italics, have been written opposite to a List of the Members :— 1. Thomas Fairchild, at Hoxton, died 1729, 2. Robert Furber, at Kensington. | 3. John Alston, Gardener and Nurseryman, near Chelsea College. 4. Obadiah Lowe, at Balltersea. 5. Philip Miller, PAysic Garden, Chelsea. 6. John Thomson, Gardener at the Rose, Chelsea. 7. Christopher Gray, at Fulham. 8. Francis Hunt, at Putney. 9. Samuel Driver. 10. Moses James, Standgate, near Lambeth. 11. George Singleton. 32. Thomas Bickerstaff. 13. William Hood. 14. Richard Cole, at Battersea. 15. William Welstead. 16. Benjamin Whitmill. - 17. Samuel Hunt. 18. John James. 19. Stephen Bacon, nephew and successor to Fairchild, 30. William Spencer.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22008445_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
