Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society

Lady Jean Skipwith
1793
Virginia
and leaves, plenty in the orchard
Smilacena stellata (?) Common Starflower
Sternbergia lutea Yellow Autumnal Amaryllis
Syringa persica Persian Lilac
Syringa vulgaris cv. Purple, White Lilac
Tagetes patula cv. Striped French Marigold
Tradescantia sp. Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana Virginia Spiderwort (see Tradescantia)
Trillium sessile Sessile Trillium
Tulipa cv. 6 tulips
Viola odorata Blue and white sweet violets
Viola sp. & cv. Cultivated Violets (see Viola) some with
a pansy flower
Viola palmata or V. pedata Wood Violet; Bird's Foot Violet Cut-leaved violet
Watsonia mariana Mariana. Bulbous, kidney-shaped root,
red flower. Well fr. Seed
Wisteria frutescens Native Wisteria Carolina Kidney-bean (see Glycine)
Winged leaves & blue flowers growing
in whorls-2nd sort. Got the seed from
G. Skipwith
Yucca filamentosa? Bear Grass, Silk Grass(see also
Campanula pyramidalis)
Campanula pyramidalis. What we here
call Bear Grass.
Zephyranthes atamasco Atamasco Lily(see Amaryllis 2nd sort)
Uncertains: Skipwith's notes or Possibilities
Common Starflower
Common Blue
Egg Plant (Brown Jolly)
Smilacena stellata,
(may be in reference to preceding I. germanica Florentina)
JS notes: see Melangena
Loranthus (perhaps the seed I got from Mrs. S.) like dried cherry has a bright scarlet
flower
Mountain Pea tree Staphylea?
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