Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society
Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society
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<strong>Plant</strong>s sent to Custis by Collinson<br />
Botanical Name<br />
Common Name<br />
Date<br />
Collinson’s Notes<br />
Custis and Collinson<br />
Virgina<br />
1734-1746<br />
Abies alba 1738 "silver fir"<br />
Abies sp. 1741 "gilded firs ... which are natives of the<br />
Alps"<br />
Aesculus hippocastanum 1734 "horse chestnuts"<br />
Alcea rosea 1735 "Hollihocks"<br />
Allium neapolitanum lily leek 1737 "white moley"<br />
Amaranthus tricolor Joseph’s coat 1742/3 "Amaranthus Tricolor"<br />
Arbutus unedo 1737 “strawberry tree,” "Arbutus"<br />
Asphodeline lutea 1737 "yellow asphodel,” "yellow asphodill"<br />
Asphodelus albus 1739/40 "white Asphodills"<br />
Brassica oleracea 1736 "cabbage"<br />
Buxus sempervirens cv. 1736 “striped box"<br />
Callistephus chinensis 1736 "China Aster"<br />
Cedrus libani 1735 "Cedar of Lebanon"<br />
Celosia cristata 1738 "tall coxcombs"<br />
Chamaecyparis thyoides 1739 "white cedr"<br />
Citrullus lanatus 1736 'Astrican Water Mellon"<br />
Convallaria majalis 1738 "lilly of the valley"<br />
Cucumis melo 1736 "Affrican Mellon," "Calmuc Mellon<br />
with fruite 2 feet long," "Italian<br />
Melon," "Muscovy Mellon 3 sorts,"<br />
"Sir Charles Wagers Melon,"<br />
“muskmellon"<br />
Cucumis sativis 1736 "Muscovy Cucumber,” "cucumber,"<br />
"long cucumber"<br />
Cupressus sempervirens 1735 "cypress"<br />
Cyclamen sp. 1739/40 "Cyclamens"<br />
Cyclamen coum 1742/3 "spring cyclamen"<br />
Dianthus chinensis 1738 "Double Flowering China or India<br />
pink," "India pinks"<br />
Dictamnus albus gas plant 1742/3 "White Fraxinelloes"<br />
Dictamnus albus ‘ruber’ 1742/3 "Red Fraxinelloes"<br />
Digitalis purpurea 1738 "rose colored foxglove"<br />
Digitalis purpurea ‘alba’ 1737 “flatt?] stalk full of white long hollow<br />
blossoms," "White Fox Glove"<br />
Echinops sphaerocephalus or E.<br />
ritro<br />
1738 "globe [thistle?]"<br />
Eranthis hyemalis 1739/40 "spring Acconite”<br />
Fragaria chiloensis 1736 "Chili strawberry"<br />
Fragaria vesca hautboy strawberry 1736 "Houtboye”<br />
Fritillaria imperialis crown imperial lily 1739 "orange colord"<br />
Fritillaria imperialis lutea 1737 "yellow ones," "lemon colord crown<br />
imperiall”<br />
Fritillaria imperialis cv. 1738 "striped"<br />
Gomphrena globosa globe amaranth 1737 "Amarantheodes,” "Amaranthoides"<br />
Helichrysum orientale 1736 "yellow everlasting flower"<br />
Hesperis matronalis cv. dame's rocket 1735 "Double Rockketts,” "white double<br />
rocketts"<br />
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