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Lists of Plants Grown by Lady Jean Skipwith
Lady Jean Skipwith
1793
Virginia
Lady Jean Skipwith (? – 1826), wife of Sir Peyton Skipwith, lived on the Dan River,
Virginia, at their family home, Prestwould. Her Garden Notes of 1793 (published by the Garden
Club of Virginia in Garden Gossip, X, 1935, Nos. 2,m 4, and 6) revealed many of the plants grown
in her garden.
Peggy Cornett of Monticello submitted this annotated list.
Latin Name Modern Names or Notes Skipwith’s Common Names
or Notes
Abelmoschus eschulentus or
Abelmoschus manihot?
Okra, Gumbo, Palmate leaved Hibiscus,
Sunset Hibiscus (see also Hibiscus
cannabinus)
Aconitum uncinatum Monkshood, Wolfsbane
Adlumia fungosa? Tuberous insipid Fumatory
(Fumaria)
The 6th sort Indian Ketmia I expect is
the fl. Helen found at the spring. In the
Encyclopaedia tis the 7th sort which is
there called Esculent Syrian Mallow
Climbing Fumatory
(see also Corydalis)
Alcea rosea varieties Variety of Hollyhocks
Alstroemeria Spotted and striped flwrd Alstroemeria
- Native of Peru - the latter v. sweetscented
– here they would be house
plants.
Amsonia tabernaemontana Blue Star flower - not described by
Miller
Anemone sp.
Apocynum androsaemifolium? see Asclepias tuberosa Aposynum
Aquilegia canadensis Native Columbine, American Columbine
Aquilegia vulgaris cv. European Columbine
Canada columbine
Columbines
Asclepias tuberosa? Aposynum AL: likely to be Asclepias tuberosa L.
Butterfly Weed. Pleurisy Root…. Also
what Collinson req. in 1734 of Bartram:
“Root of the Swallow- wort or
Apocinon w/ narrow lvs. and orangecoloured
fls.
Aster sp. Asters of various kinds
Belamcanda chinensis Grass Pink; Bog Orchid Blackberry Lily 1. Bermudian Ixia
2. 2. Blackberry Lily
3. 3. Ixia Bermudiana, perhaps the
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