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  • Meadow
    have a flood-gate to let water on the Meadow at Pleasure.” [Fig. 4] Pursh, Frederick, 1814, describing the plants of North America (1814: 1:v) “Her [America]
    31 KB (4,224 words) - 18:49, August 12, 2021
  • William Bartram
    he sells much to Europe. He is the best botanist in this country.” Pursh, Frederick, 1814, describing a visit to Bartram Botanic Garden and Nursery in
    42 KB (5,973 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
  • Botanic garden
    justify your committee in offering this extraneous remark.” [Fig. 9] Pursh, Frederick, 1814, describing Elgin Botanic Garden, New York, NY (1814: xv) “I
    63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
  • Bartram Botanic Garden and Nursery
    the attention of the lovers of science and the admirers of nature.” Pursh, Frederick, 1814, recalling a visit to Bartram Botanic Garden and Nursery in 1799
    50 KB (7,152 words) - 19:49, September 1, 2021
  • David Hosack
    modeled on William Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, with the German botanist Frederick Pursh serving as editor. Several of Hosack’s young protégés went on to become
    54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
  • Humphry Marshall’s Botanic Garden
    plants but apparently without maintaining the garden to a high standard. Frederick Pursh, whom the elderly Humphry Marshall had conducted through the garden
    32 KB (4,232 words) - 20:32, August 19, 2021
  • Elgin Botanic Garden
    Surgeons; Columbia College; Associated People: Andrew Gentle, gardener; Frederick Pursh 1774–1820, gardener; Michael Dennison, seedsman; Location: New York
    92 KB (13,119 words) - 22:42, August 16, 2021
  • Humphry Marshall
    and will be obliged to you for a good specimen. back up to History Pursh, Frederick, 1814, recalling a visit to Humphry Marshall’s Botanic Garden in 1799
    113 KB (16,648 words) - 19:41, September 21, 2021
  • The Woodlands
    Hamilton hired the German botanist Frederick Pursh to oversee the gardens at The Woodlands in 1802 or 1803, and Pursh remained there until 1805. Roger L
    110 KB (15,513 words) - 20:48, August 30, 2021
  • Bernard M’Mahon
    in the botanical literature. M’Mahon hired a German botanist named Frederick Pursh to describe and illustrate the specimens collected by Lewis sometime
    55 KB (7,248 words) - 19:25, September 21, 2021
  • Andrew Gentle
    (view text). Gentle may have left the garden prior to April 1809, when Frederick Pursh began a brief stint as gardener at Elgin, succeeded by Michael Dennison
    33 KB (4,689 words) - 17:28, September 13, 2021

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