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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![| Viburnum lantanoides ? — ** Viburnum folio cordato from Pensylvania. Mem.—*' Received from John Bartram, Jan. 22, 1756, a sod of dwarf Viburnums. In the Hortus Kewensis this species bas been traced back to the nursery of Mr. Christopher Gray, in 1758, and to his and other nurseries Mr. Collinson was a most liberal contributor, nudum. *''Tinus virginiana foliis ovatis. Fl. Virg. Merm.—'** Received from J. Bartram, Jan. 22, 1756, one root of Swamp Viburnum. Opulus. ** Opulus flore globoso et flore simplici. prunifolium. —** Viburnum foliis Pruni, floribus albis, bacca edulis. This species sgain appears in the Catalogue with the name of ** Mespilus prunifolio non spinosa fructu nigricante. Black Haw. Pluk,* Tinus. ** Tinus Clusii and four species, Clus. Hist. A Memorandum shews that the four species, or rather varieties were, the hairy-leaved, the shining leaved (i, e., V. lucidum of Miller) the rough-leaved, and the small-leaved Laurus- tinus, Vicia cassubica. ** Vicia multiflora frutescens. Breyn. Pro. Vinca Minor Var. ** Pervinca flore pleno purpureo. Tourn. et varietas. Viola debilis. ** Viola virginiana foliis cordatis. Fl. Virg. - montana. *' Viola erecta flore czeruleo. Mor. Hist. ———- odorata Var. ** Viola lusitanica flore czeruleo, odoratissima. Mem.—'' The Portugal Violet, remarkable for its early flowering, sweet scent, and large yellowish green leaves, was, with the long-podded yellow wood Sorrel, raised out of mould sent from that country in a tub of plants by my ingenious friend Mr. Power. I have obliged many ladies with roots, who admire them for their fragrance ; sent 4th May, 1741. Inanother ^ memorandum, Mr. Collinson says that **it flowers about Christmas, and has a rich odour beyond ours. - pedata. ** Viola virginiana, foliis palmatis. Fl. Virg. Viscum album. | Not in Catalogue. Mr. Collinson has left a record of some observations which he made on the propagation of this curious plant in 1739, and appears to have watched its growth from the droppings of Tlirushes on the boughs in Lord Petre's Park, at Thorndon. There are also several memoranda relating to its growth on different trees, and the following, which comprises all that is mostinteresting in the others, suffices to shew that it was cultivated at Mill Hill, ** Trees on which Misletoet has been found growing by Mr. Knowlton.£ ** ], On the Lime Tree at Bone Gate, East Barnett and Cannons, Duke of Chandos, Edgware. 2. On Nuts and Filberts at Market-street. : 3. On the Mountain Ash or Quick Beam. 4. On Apple Trees. 5. On the Crabs. 6. On White Thorn. T 7. On the Acacia or Robinia. 8. On the Pear Tree. 9, On the Maple in Yorkshire and Huntingdonshire, 10. On Aria Theophrasti or White Beam, on Sussex Downs. 11. On the Abele or Poplar, at Ashton, near Rotherham, and at Lord Holdernesse's. 12. On the Ash at Lord Tilney's, at Tilney Park, in Hampshire. 13. On the Elm, 14. On the Willow, : , : 5 1E 0» 186 Buckthors, These all were observed at Esquire Blackburn's, and in Lan 16. On the Sallow i cashire and in Westmorland, in 1764. 17. On the Service, 18. On a Holly Branch, which was at a druggist's in Bow-lane, Cheapside. 19. On a Virginia Walnut Tree, growing in our fields at Mill Hill. 20. On the Oak (which is very rare), Mr. Knowlton has twice seen it. In August, 1765, three plants were found growing on the Oak on the estate of —— White, Esq., at Watling Wells. * With a query at p, 3, I had assigned this plant of Plukenet's for the Amelanchier vulgaris, and the following entry in the Catalogue, which belongs to that species, I had unnaccountably over- looked :—** Amelanchier, species of Mespilus, with small whitish green leaves. t In the Gardener s Chronicle, vol. i., p. 687, I have given a list of the Trees on which I found the Misletoe, at Croome, and other places in Worcestershire. t By one of the memoranda of Mr. Collinsons's, which Mr. Lambert has published in the Tran- sactions of the Linnzean Society, vol. x., p. 277, it appearsthat Thomas Knowlton was in the service as chief gardener of the Duke of Devonshire, and a more full account of his merits is given in Pulteney's Sketches, H](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22008445_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
