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* Collinson, Peter, c. 1730, describing Westover, the [[seat]] of William Byrd II, on the James River, Va. (Tinling, ed., 1977: 1:423) <ref>Marion Tinling, ed., ''The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776'', 2 vols (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1977), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/J5UXEFHR view on Zotero].</ref> | * Collinson, Peter, c. 1730, describing Westover, the [[seat]] of William Byrd II, on the James River, Va. (Tinling, ed., 1977: 1:423) <ref>Marion Tinling, ed., ''The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776'', 2 vols (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1977), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/J5UXEFHR view on Zotero].</ref> | ||
: “A good shelter is very necessary [for a vineyard] & should be raised on all sides but the south by raising [[plantation]]s of trees of the quickest growth as hickory locust, &c. but on that side which is most exposed to the strongest winds the [[plantation]] must be made more formidable but let none be planted so near the vines as to drip upon them.” | : “A good shelter is very necessary [for a vineyard] & should be raised on all sides but the south by raising [[plantation]]s of trees of the quickest growth as hickory locust, &c. but on that side which is most exposed to the strongest winds the [[plantation]] must be made more formidable but let none be planted so near the vines as to drip upon them.” | ||
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| + | * Collinson, Peter, January 24, 1734, in a letter to [[John Bartram]] (quoted in Armstrong 2004: 31)<ref>Alan W. Armstrong, "John Bartram and Peter Collinson: A Correspondence of Science and Friendship," in ''America’s Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699–1777'', ed. by Nancy Everill Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004), ccxlix, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero].</ref> | ||
| + | :"I wish att a proper season Thee would procure a strong box 2 feet square and about 15 or 18 inches deep but a foot Deep in Mould will be enough. Then collect half a dozen Laurels and half a Dozen shrub Honeysuckles [azaleas] and plant in this Box, but be sure to make the bottome of the Box full of large Holes and cover the Holes with Tiles or oyster shells to Lett the Water draine better off. Then Lett this box stand in a proper place in thy Garden for two or three years till the plants have taken good Root and made Good Shoots. But thee must be Care full to water it in Dry Weather." | ||
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| − | * Collinson, Peter, 1760?, inscribed on the back of a letter from C. Polhill to Peter Collinson dated March 17, 1760 (quoted in Armstrong 2004: 24)<ref> | + | * Collinson, Peter, 1760?, inscribed on the back of a letter from C. Polhill to Peter Collinson dated March 17, 1760 (quoted in Armstrong 2004: 24)<ref>Armstrong 2004, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero].</ref> |
:"I have for many years past to Improve or at Least embellish my Country at the request of many of the Nobility & Gentry—with no little Trouble & Some expense—procured annually Boxes of Pensilvania Seeds Having only my Labour for my Pains without the Least profit or advantage. . . . | :"I have for many years past to Improve or at Least embellish my Country at the request of many of the Nobility & Gentry—with no little Trouble & Some expense—procured annually Boxes of Pensilvania Seeds Having only my Labour for my Pains without the Least profit or advantage. . . . | ||
:"My Connection with our Colonies in the Course of Trade & my Love for planting & Improvement—putt mee Early on the Scheme of procuring Seeds as well for my own planting as others—but it was many years before I could do any Thing to any purpose until Luckily anno 1733 I was recommended to [[John Bartram|Bartram]] (in anno 1736 Seed sent of Pennsylvania) a Native of that Country who I Shall Direct to putt you up a Box of Seeds for next year." | :"My Connection with our Colonies in the Course of Trade & my Love for planting & Improvement—putt mee Early on the Scheme of procuring Seeds as well for my own planting as others—but it was many years before I could do any Thing to any purpose until Luckily anno 1733 I was recommended to [[John Bartram|Bartram]] (in anno 1736 Seed sent of Pennsylvania) a Native of that Country who I Shall Direct to putt you up a Box of Seeds for next year." | ||
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- Collinson, Peter, c. 1730, describing Westover, the seat of William Byrd II, on the James River, Va. (Tinling, ed., 1977: 1:423) [1]
- “A good shelter is very necessary [for a vineyard] & should be raised on all sides but the south by raising plantations of trees of the quickest growth as hickory locust, &c. but on that side which is most exposed to the strongest winds the plantation must be made more formidable but let none be planted so near the vines as to drip upon them.”
- Collinson, Peter, January 24, 1734, in a letter to John Bartram (quoted in Armstrong 2004: 31)[2]
- "I wish att a proper season Thee would procure a strong box 2 feet square and about 15 or 18 inches deep but a foot Deep in Mould will be enough. Then collect half a dozen Laurels and half a Dozen shrub Honeysuckles [azaleas] and plant in this Box, but be sure to make the bottome of the Box full of large Holes and cover the Holes with Tiles or oyster shells to Lett the Water draine better off. Then Lett this box stand in a proper place in thy Garden for two or three years till the plants have taken good Root and made Good Shoots. But thee must be Care full to water it in Dry Weather."
- Collinson, Peter, October 5, 1757, in a letter to Cadwallader Colden (1923: 5: 190) [3]
- "I have in Mrs Alexanders Trunk Sent you the Herbals you wanted and putt in 2 or 3 of Erhetts Plants, for your Ingenious Daughter to take Sketches of the fine Turn of the Leaves &c. & Lin: Genera.
- "I wish your fair Daug[hte]r was Near Wm Bartram he would much assist her at first Setting out. John['] Son a very Ingenious Ladd who without any Instructor has not only attained to the Drawing of Plants & Birds, but He paints them in their Natural Colours So Elegantly So Masterly that the best Judges Here think they come the Nearest to Mr Ehrets, of any they have Seen[.] it is a fine amusement for her[;] the More She practices the more She Will Improve, by another Ship, I will Send Some more prints but as they are Liable to be taken I Send a few at a Time."
- Collinson, Peter, 1760?, inscribed on the back of a letter from C. Polhill to Peter Collinson dated March 17, 1760 (quoted in Armstrong 2004: 24)[4]
- "I have for many years past to Improve or at Least embellish my Country at the request of many of the Nobility & Gentry—with no little Trouble & Some expense—procured annually Boxes of Pensilvania Seeds Having only my Labour for my Pains without the Least profit or advantage. . . .
- "My Connection with our Colonies in the Course of Trade & my Love for planting & Improvement—putt mee Early on the Scheme of procuring Seeds as well for my own planting as others—but it was many years before I could do any Thing to any purpose until Luckily anno 1733 I was recommended to Bartram (in anno 1736 Seed sent of Pennsylvania) a Native of that Country who I Shall Direct to putt you up a Box of Seeds for next year."
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- ↑ Marion Tinling, ed., The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776, 2 vols (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1977), view on Zotero.
- ↑ Alan W. Armstrong, "John Bartram and Peter Collinson: A Correspondence of Science and Friendship," in America’s Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699–1777, ed. by Nancy Everill Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004), ccxlix, view on Zotero.
- ↑ Cadwallader Colden, The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1921 (The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series), 54, 9 vols (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1923), 5 (1755–60), view on Zotero.
- ↑ Armstrong 2004, view on Zotero.
