https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Peter_Collinson&feed=atom&action=historyPeter Collinson - Revision history2024-03-28T15:11:49ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Peter_Collinson&diff=41922&oldid=prevM-westerby at 20:02, September 8, 20212021-09-08T20:02:27Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I am glad of this conveyance to Express my Gratitude for the perticular regard shown for me in that Curious Elaborate Work the Horts Clifforts. Some thing I think was Due to Mee from the Common Wealth of Botany for the great number of plants & Seeds I have annually procur’d from Abroad, and you have been so good as to pay It, by giving Mee a species of Eternity (Botanically speaking), That is, a name as long as Men and Books Endure. This layes Mee under Great Obligations, which I shall never Forgett.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I am glad of this conveyance to Express my Gratitude for the perticular regard shown for me in that Curious Elaborate Work the Horts Clifforts. Some thing I think was Due to Mee from the Common Wealth of Botany for the great number of plants & Seeds I have annually procur’d from Abroad, and you have been so good as to pay It, by giving Mee a species of Eternity (Botanically speaking), That is, a name as long as Men and Books Endure. This layes Mee under Great Obligations, which I shall never Forgett.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Petre"></div>Collinson, Peter, September 1, 1741, describing the gardens of Lord Petre at Thorndon Hall in Essex, England, in a letter to [[John Bartram]] (quoted in Laird 1999: 64)<ref name="Laird_1999">Laird 1999, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref> <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[#Petre_cite|back up to History]]</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Petre"></div>Collinson, Peter, September 1, 1741, describing the gardens of Lord Petre at Thorndon Hall in Essex, England, in a letter to [[John Bartram]] (quoted in Laird 1999: 64)<ref name="Laird_1999">Laird 1999, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“ . . . the Trees & shrubbs raised from thy first seeds is grown to great maturity[.] Last year Ld petre planted out about Tenn thousand Americans wch being att the Same Time mixed with about Twenty Thousand Europeans, & some Asians make a very beautifull appearance great Art & skill being shown in consulting Every one’s pticular growth & the well blending the Variety of Greens[.] Dark green being a great Foil to Lighter ones & Blewish green to yellow ones & those Trees that have their Bark & back of their Leaves of white or Silver make a Beautifull Contrast with the others</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“ . . . the Trees & shrubbs raised from thy first seeds is grown to great maturity[.] Last year Ld petre planted out about Tenn thousand Americans wch being att the Same Time mixed with about Twenty Thousand Europeans, & some Asians make a very beautifull appearance great Art & skill being shown in consulting Every one’s pticular growth & the well blending the Variety of Greens[.] Dark green being a great Foil to Lighter ones & Blewish green to yellow ones & those Trees that have their Bark & back of their Leaves of white or Silver make a Beautifull Contrast with the others</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“the whole is planted in [[thicket]]s & [[Clump]]s and with these Mixtures are perfectly [[picturesque]] and have a Delightfull Effect&mdash;this will just give thee a faint Idea of the Method Lord Petre plants In which has not been so happly Executed by any and Indeed they want the Materials whilst his lordship has them in plenty[.] His [[nursery]] being fully stocked with Flowering shrubs of all Sorts that can be procured, with these He [[border]]s the out skirts of all his [[plantation]]s and He continues Annually Raising from Seed and Laying, budding, grafting that 20 Thousand Trees are hardly to be missed out of his [[nursery|Nurseries]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>. . .</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“the whole is planted in [[thicket]]s & [[Clump]]s and with these Mixtures are perfectly [[picturesque]] and have a Delightfull Effect&mdash;this will just give thee a faint Idea of the Method Lord Petre plants In which has not been so happly Executed by any and Indeed they want the Materials whilst his lordship has them in plenty[.] His [[nursery]] being fully stocked with Flowering shrubs of all Sorts that can be procured, with these He [[border]]s the out skirts of all his [[plantation]]s and He continues Annually Raising from Seed and Laying, budding, grafting that 20 Thousand Trees are hardly to be missed out of his [[nursery|Nurseries]]. . . </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“when I walk amongst them, One cannot well help thinking He is in North American [[thicket]]s&mdash;there are such Quantities.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“when I walk amongst them, One cannot well help thinking He is in North American [[thicket]]s&mdash;there are such Quantities.” <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[#Petre_cite|back up to History]]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <div id="Kalm"></div>Kalm, Pehr, September 1748, describing Peter Collinson’s garden at Peckham (quoted in Brett-James 1926: 30&ndash;31)<ref>Norman G. Brett-James, ''The Life of Peter Collinson'' (London: Edgar G. Dunstan & Co., 1926), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/IR9A3M3I view on Zotero].</ref> <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[#Kalm_cite|back up to History]]</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <div id="Kalm"></div>Kalm, Pehr, September 1748, describing Peter Collinson’s garden at Peckham (quoted in Brett-James 1926: 30&ndash;31)<ref>Norman G. Brett-James, ''The Life of Peter Collinson'' (London: Edgar G. Dunstan & Co., 1926), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/IR9A3M3I view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“June 10, in the afternoon, I went to Peckham, a pretty village which lies 3 miles from London in Surrey, where Mr. Peter Collinson has a beautiful little garden, full of all kinds of the rarest plants, especially American ones, which can endure the English climate and stand out the whole winter. However neat and small it is there is scarcely a garden where so many kinds of trees and plants, especially the rarest, are to be found. Peter Collinson uses knucklebones for his [[border]]s and he explained to me his method of sowing mistletoe and also experiments he had made with cranberries. He thinks it is best for a garden to have the morning sun so that it may help to dry up the vapours. Quadrilateral is the best shape and is the one which he has adopted, whereas the gardens of the Duke of Richmond are round. The sun is not so effective. He told me also of the use of meadowland in Middlesex, north of Hamptstead. The people do not use the plough but keep horses and hardly any cattle. The manure thus obtained is sent to London frequently. I saw a tree clipped to form the roof of a [[summerhouse|summer-house]] and also a chestnut cut so as to make a shelter over a bench.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“June 10, in the afternoon, I went to Peckham, a pretty village which lies 3 miles from London in Surrey, where Mr. Peter Collinson has a beautiful little garden, full of all kinds of the rarest plants, especially American ones, which can endure the English climate and stand out the whole winter. However neat and small it is there is scarcely a garden where so many kinds of trees and plants, especially the rarest, are to be found. Peter Collinson uses knucklebones for his [[border]]s and he explained to me his method of sowing mistletoe and also experiments he had made with cranberries. He thinks it is best for a garden to have the morning sun so that it may help to dry up the vapours. Quadrilateral is the best shape and is the one which he has adopted, whereas the gardens of the Duke of Richmond are round. The sun is not so effective. He told me also of the use of meadowland in Middlesex, north of Hamptstead. The people do not use the plough but keep horses and hardly any cattle. The manure thus obtained is sent to London frequently. I saw a tree clipped to form the roof of a [[summerhouse|summer-house]] and also a chestnut cut so as to make a shelter over a bench.” <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[#Kalm_cite|back up to History]]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Collinson, Peter, January 20, 1751, in a letter to [[John Bartram]] (quoted in Laird 1999: 72)<ref name="Laird_1999"/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Collinson, Peter, January 20, 1751, in a letter to [[John Bartram]] (quoted in Laird 1999: 72)<ref name="Laird_1999"/></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I am very much Obliged to my good Friend [[John Bartram|J. Bartram]] for so fine a Collection of growing plants&mdash;if they had all come to my Hand I should have troubled Thee no further but to my great Loss some prying knowing people Looked into the Cases and out of that No. 2: took the 3 Roots of Chamaerhododendrons, Red Honeysuckle[,] Laurel[,] Root of Silver Leafed Arum & the Spirea alni folio[.] these was the Most Valuable part & what I most Wanted, it is very vexatious wether taken out on board or Coming up from the Ship I can’t Say&mdash;but this is Certain they was gone&mdash;I wish Ld: Northumberland had not the Same bad luck for as I peeped In I could see but very Little&mdash;but as I have had no complaints I hope it was otherwise<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>. . . I fancy some of the sailors having relatives gardeners seeing these plants so carefully boxed up took them for rarities so were tempted to steal them to give to their friends.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I am very much Obliged to my good Friend [[John Bartram|J. Bartram]] for so fine a Collection of growing plants&mdash;if they had all come to my Hand I should have troubled Thee no further but to my great Loss some prying knowing people Looked into the Cases and out of that No. 2: took the 3 Roots of Chamaerhododendrons, Red Honeysuckle[,] Laurel[,] Root of Silver Leafed Arum & the Spirea alni folio[.] these was the Most Valuable part & what I most Wanted, it is very vexatious wether taken out on board or Coming up from the Ship I can’t Say&mdash;but this is Certain they was gone&mdash;I wish Ld: Northumberland had not the Same bad luck for as I peeped In I could see but very Little&mdash;but as I have had no complaints I hope it was otherwise. . . I fancy some of the sailors having relatives gardeners seeing these plants so carefully boxed up took them for rarities so were tempted to steal them to give to their friends.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I forgot in my Last to tell thee my Discidious Mountain Magnolia I have raised from Seed about 20 years agon flowers for the First Time with Mee & I presume is the first of that species that ever flowerd in England & the Largest & Tallest, the Flowers come Early Soone after the Leaves are formed&mdash;The Great Laurel Magnolia & umbrella both fine trees in my Garden showed their flower Budds the first of June&mdash;my Red flowering Acacia is now in full flower and makes a glorious show as well as the White but above all is the Great Mountain Laurel or Rhododendron in all its Glory&mdash;this 10th June, what a Ravishing Sight will the Mountains appear when alive with this rich embroiderie[.] How Glorious are thy Works o Lord, they inspire Mee with Admiration & Praise.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I forgot in my Last to tell thee my Discidious Mountain Magnolia I have raised from Seed about 20 years agon flowers for the First Time with Mee & I presume is the first of that species that ever flowerd in England & the Largest & Tallest, the Flowers come Early Soone after the Leaves are formed&mdash;The Great Laurel Magnolia & umbrella both fine trees in my Garden showed their flower Budds the first of June&mdash;my Red flowering Acacia is now in full flower and makes a glorious show as well as the White but above all is the Great Mountain Laurel or Rhododendron in all its Glory&mdash;this 10th June, what a Ravishing Sight will the Mountains appear when alive with this rich embroiderie[.] How Glorious are thy Works o Lord, they inspire Mee with Admiration & Praise.” <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[#Collinson 1762_2_cite|back down to note]]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Collinson made his greatest impact on botanical and horticultural history as an importer of plants from North America. Although Collinson claimed to make no profit from these activities, he was, according to Alan W. Armstrong, “a demanding collector who badgered his ship-captain friends and commercial contacts (especially in Quaker Philadelphia) for specimens and good local collectors.”<ref>Armstrong 2004, 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero]; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> The Philadelphia botanist and horticulturalist [[John Bartram]] (1699&ndash;1777) was Collinson’s most important and prolific supplier of North American plants, and the two men exchanged plants and seeds for more than three decades. This network of exchange helped supply the period fashion for American plants in English gardens.<ref>The influx of American plants into England prompted Collinson to write in 1756 that “England must be turned up side down & America transplanted Heither.” Mark Laird has argued that by the early 19th century the fashion for American plants in England faded in favor of exotics from Asia; see his ''The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720&ndash;1800'' (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 17, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref> Mark Laird has argued that “Through regular consignments of more than one hundred woody species, [[John Bartram|Bartram]] and Collinson effectively afforested English shires with Pennsylvanian [[wilderness]].”<ref>Mark Laird, “This Other Eden: The American Connection in Georgian Pleasure Grounds, from Shrubbery and Menagerie to Aviary and Flower Garden,” in ''Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740&ndash;1840'', ed. Amy R. W. Meyers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 96, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UJWNPNR9 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Collinson made his greatest impact on botanical and horticultural history as an importer of plants from North America. Although Collinson claimed to make no profit from these activities, he was, according to Alan W. Armstrong, “a demanding collector who badgered his ship-captain friends and commercial contacts (especially in Quaker Philadelphia) for specimens and good local collectors.”<ref>Armstrong 2004, 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero]; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> The Philadelphia botanist and horticulturalist [[John Bartram]] (1699&ndash;1777) was Collinson’s most important and prolific supplier of North American plants, and the two men exchanged plants and seeds for more than three decades. This network of exchange helped supply the period fashion for American plants in English gardens.<ref>The influx of American plants into England prompted Collinson to write in 1756 that “England must be turned up side down & America transplanted Heither.” Mark Laird has argued that by the early 19th century the fashion for American plants in England faded in favor of exotics from Asia; see his ''The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720&ndash;1800'' (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 17, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref> Mark Laird has argued that “Through regular consignments of more than one hundred woody species, [[John Bartram|Bartram]] and Collinson effectively afforested English shires with Pennsylvanian [[wilderness]].”<ref>Mark Laird, “This Other Eden: The American Connection in Georgian Pleasure Grounds, from Shrubbery and Menagerie to Aviary and Flower Garden,” in ''Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740&ndash;1840'', ed. Amy R. W. Meyers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 96, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UJWNPNR9 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Though they never met in person, their letters evidence a strong friendship grounded in a “shared love of gardening and a fanatical desire for new plants.”<ref>Breintnall and Chew first recommended Bartram to Collinson; Fry 2011, 63, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU].</ref> Collinson began corresponding with Bartram in 1733, and the following year Bartram sent Collinson his first shipment of plants from North America. By January 1735 he had begun to pay [[John Bartram|Bartram]] for this kind of work.<ref>Schuyler 2008, xx, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]; Armstrong 2004, 23, 32, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson wrote that he “employed Him [Bartram] to Collect Seeds, 100 species in a box at five guineas Each from the year 1735 to this year 1760 about 20 boxes a Year.”<ref>Quoted in O’Neill and McLean 2008, 103, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson served as the middleman, selling the plants that he obtained from [[John Bartram|Bartram]] to various botanists, gardeners, and nurserymen throughout England and Europe; he also kept some specimens, including mountain magnolia (''Magnolia acuminata''), “sarsifrax” [sassafras], rhododendrons, kalmias, and azaleas, for his own garden at Mill Hill.<ref><span id="Collinson 1762_2_cite"></span>According to Fry, Bartram also arranged special boxes for Collinson alone that included rare specimens of live plants and roots. These curiosities “quickly made Collinson’s garden famous.” In 1762, Collinson noted that the mountain Magnolia that he had raised from seed twenty years earlier had finally flowered ([[#Collinson 1762_2|view text]]); see Fry 2011, 65&ndash;66, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Though they never met in person, their letters evidence a strong friendship grounded in a “shared love of gardening and a fanatical desire for new plants.”<ref>Breintnall and Chew first recommended Bartram to Collinson; Fry 2011, 63, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU].</ref> Collinson began corresponding with Bartram in 1733, and the following year Bartram sent Collinson his first shipment of plants from North America. By January 1735 he had begun to pay [[John Bartram|Bartram]] for this kind of work.<ref>Schuyler 2008, xx, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]; Armstrong 2004, 23, 32, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson wrote that he “employed Him [Bartram] to Collect Seeds, 100 species in a box at five guineas Each from the year 1735 to this year 1760 about 20 boxes a Year.”<ref>Quoted in O’Neill and McLean 2008, 103, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson served as the middleman, selling the plants that he obtained from [[John Bartram|Bartram]] to various botanists, gardeners, and nurserymen throughout England and Europe; he also kept some specimens, including mountain magnolia (''Magnolia acuminata''), “sarsifrax” [sassafras], rhododendrons, kalmias, and azaleas, for his own garden at Mill Hill.<ref><span id="Collinson 1762_2_cite"></span>According to Fry, Bartram also arranged special boxes for Collinson alone that included rare specimens of live plants and roots. These curiosities “quickly made Collinson’s garden famous.” In 1762, Collinson noted that the mountain Magnolia that he had raised from seed twenty years earlier had finally flowered ([[#Collinson 1762_2|view text]]); see Fry 2011, 65&ndash;66, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their most significant&mdash;and first&mdash;patron was Robert James (1713&ndash;1742), the eighth Baron Petre, of Thorndon Hall in Essex. Collinson arranged for [[John Bartram|Bartram]] to send Lord Petre two boxes of North American tree seeds&mdash;including several species of hickory, white and black walnut trees, sassafras, dogwood, red cedar, sweet gum, swamp laurel (magnolia), spruce (hemlock), chestnut oak, white oak, swamp Spanish oak, and tulip tree&mdash;in the fall of 1735.<ref>Fry 2011, 64, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU]. Bartram continued to send Lord Petre boxes of seeds, via Collinson, annually until at least 1739. Laird 1999, 70, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Petre_cite"></span>Several years later, Collinson wrote to [[John Bartram|Bartram]] of Lord Petre’s gardens that “when I walk amongst them, One cannot well help thinking He is in North American thickets&mdash;there are such Quantities” ([[#Petre|view text]]). Lord Petre also desired live animals from North America for his estate, and Bartram sent terrapins and turtles to stock the ponds at Thorndon Hall.<ref>Laird 2011, 103, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UJWNPNR9 view on Zotero].</ref> According to Collinson’s records, [[John Bartram|Bartram]] also sent boxes to Edward Howard (1686&ndash;1777), the ninth Duke of Norfolk (and Lord Petre’s cousin), at Worksop Manor; Charles Lennox (1701&ndash;1750), the second Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood; John Russell (1710&ndash;1771), the fourth Duke of Bedford, at Woburn; Archibald Campbell (1682&ndash;1761), the third Duke of Argyll, at Whitton; John Stuart (1713&ndash;1792), the third Earl of Bute; Norborne Berkeley (d. 1770), Lord Botetourt at Stoke Park; and Charles Hamilton (1704&ndash;1786) at Painshill Park, among many other patrons.<ref>James A. Jacobs, ''John Bartram House and Garden, Greenhouse (Seed House)'', Historic American Landscapes Survey No. PA-1 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 2001), 24, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/TZG4ANHU]. See also Laird 1999, 67, 69, 86, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their most significant&mdash;and first&mdash;patron was Robert James (1713&ndash;1742), the eighth Baron Petre, of Thorndon Hall in Essex. Collinson arranged for [[John Bartram|Bartram]] to send Lord Petre two boxes of North American tree seeds&mdash;including several species of hickory, white and black walnut trees, sassafras, dogwood, red cedar, sweet gum, swamp laurel (magnolia), spruce (hemlock), chestnut oak, white oak, swamp Spanish oak, and tulip tree&mdash;in the fall of 1735.<ref>Fry 2011, 64, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU]. Bartram continued to send Lord Petre boxes of seeds, via Collinson, annually until at least 1739. Laird 1999, 70, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Petre_cite"></span>Several years later, Collinson wrote to [[John Bartram|Bartram]] of Lord Petre’s gardens that “when I walk amongst them, One cannot well help thinking He is in North American thickets&mdash;there are such Quantities” ([[#Petre|view text]]). Lord Petre also desired live animals from North America for his estate, and Bartram sent terrapins and turtles to stock the ponds at Thorndon Hall.<ref>Laird 2011, 103, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UJWNPNR9 view on Zotero].</ref> According to Collinson’s records, [[John Bartram|Bartram]] also sent boxes to Edward Howard (1686&ndash;1777), the ninth Duke of Norfolk (and Lord Petre’s cousin), at Worksop Manor; Charles Lennox (1701&ndash;1750), the second Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood; John Russell (1710&ndash;1771), the fourth Duke of Bedford, at Woburn; Archibald Campbell (1682&ndash;1761), the third Duke of Argyll, at Whitton; John Stuart (1713&ndash;1792), the third Earl of Bute; Norborne Berkeley (d. 1770), Lord Botetourt at Stoke Park; and Charles Hamilton (1704&ndash;1786) at Painshill Park, among many other patrons.<ref>James A. Jacobs, ''John Bartram House and Garden, Greenhouse (Seed House)'', Historic American Landscapes Survey No. PA-1 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 2001), 24, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/TZG4ANHU]. See also Laird 1999, 67, 69, 86, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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[[John Bartram|Bartram]] probably would not have secured the financial support needed to undertake the collecting expeditions that made him “the preeminent American naturalist of his time.”<ref>Armstrong 2004, 25, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero]; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 103, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Bartram_cite"></span>Collinson also provided [[John Bartram|Bartram]] with exotics that he could not easily obtain otherwise ([[#Bartram|view text]]).<ref>See also Fry 2011, 68, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson is credited with introducing at least 150 new species from British North America to Europe&mdash;many of which were provided by [[John Bartram|Bartram]].<ref>''Rhododendron maximum'' and ''Sanguinaria canadensis'' are among the species that Collinson introduced to England. He is also credited with introducing the first tropical orchid to flower in England; see O’Neill and McLean 2008, 53, 79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]. According to Volmer, Collinson may have introduced as many as 180 species; Volmer 2008, 37, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHFUA5FT view on Zotero].</ref> Without [[John Bartram|Bartram's]] plants, Collinson likely would have been remembered as “a minor figure in the history of the Royal Society,” according to Armstrong.<ref>Armstrong 2004, 25, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero]</ref> Indeed, it was one of [[John Bartram|Bartram's]] plants that ensured Collinson’s legacy: it was only after Linnaeus named a species native to eastern North America after Collinson in 1737&mdash;a specimen of which Collinson sent to Linnaeus for study&mdash;that the naturalist felt his contributions to the field had been adequately honored. <span id="Linnaeus_cite"></span>He thanked the Swedish botanist for naming the plant ''Collinsonia canadensis'' and thus “giving Mee a species of Eternity (Botanically speaking) . . . a name as long as Men and Books Endure” ([[#Linnaeus|view text]]) [Fig. 2].<ref>Theresa M. Kelley, ''Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 24, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/4JDXXAH3]. Laird says that the specimen was introduced to England in 1734; Laird 1999, 221, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Scholars have argued that the collaboration between Collinson and [[John Bartram|Bartram]] bolstered both men’s reputations. [[John Bartram|Bartram]] probably would not have secured the financial support needed to undertake the collecting expeditions that made him “the preeminent American naturalist of his time.”<ref>Armstrong 2004, 25, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero]; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 103, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Bartram_cite"></span>Collinson also provided [[John Bartram|Bartram]] with exotics that he could not easily obtain otherwise ([[#Bartram|view text]]).<ref>See also Fry 2011, 68, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson is credited with introducing at least 150 new species from British North America to Europe&mdash;many of which were provided by [[John Bartram|Bartram]].<ref>''Rhododendron maximum'' and ''Sanguinaria canadensis'' are among the species that Collinson introduced to England. He is also credited with introducing the first tropical orchid to flower in England; see O’Neill and McLean 2008, 53, 79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]. According to Volmer, Collinson may have introduced as many as 180 species; Volmer 2008, 37, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHFUA5FT view on Zotero].</ref> Without [[John Bartram|Bartram's]] plants, Collinson likely would have been remembered as “a minor figure in the history of the Royal Society,” according to Armstrong.<ref>Armstrong 2004, 25, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero]</ref> Indeed, it was one of [[John Bartram|Bartram's]] plants that ensured Collinson’s legacy: it was only after Linnaeus named a species native to eastern North America after Collinson in 1737&mdash;a specimen of which Collinson sent to Linnaeus for study&mdash;that the naturalist felt his contributions to the field had been adequately honored. <span id="Linnaeus_cite"></span>He thanked the Swedish botanist for naming the plant ''Collinsonia canadensis'' and thus “giving Mee a species of Eternity (Botanically speaking) . . . a name as long as Men and Books Endure” ([[#Linnaeus|view text]]) [Fig. 2].<ref>Theresa M. Kelley, ''Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 24, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/4JDXXAH3]. Laird says that the specimen was introduced to England in 1734; Laird 1999, 221, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHZIWTH3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Collinson was born to Peter Collinson, a Quaker cloth merchant from London, and his wife, Elizabeth Hall, in 1694. He received his “first Likeing to Gardens & plants” at his grandmother’s in Peckham, Surrey, and noted in a memorandum he wrote later in life her preference for formal topiary, such as “Clip’d Yews in shapes of Birds, Dogs, Men & Ships &c.”<ref>Quoted in Jean O’Neill and Elizabeth P. McLean, ''Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-Century Natural History Exchange'', Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2008), cclxiv, 6, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson’s curiosity in natural history was, according to Jean O’Neill and Elizabeth P. McLean, also fostered by Quaker beliefs that encouraged gardening as a way to connect with God.<ref>O’Neill and McLean 2008, 5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> As a Quaker, Collinson was not permitted to attend an English university, and his knowledge of botany and natural history was likely largely self-taught, using the collection of natural history books he had amassed for his personal library.<ref>According to Armstrong, Collinson’s library included “most of the natural histories available and published in his time, along with biographies, travel accounts, gazetteers, geographies, mythologies, books on antiquities, astronomy, and practical science”; Armstrong 2002, xxiii, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref> In 1711 Collinson began working for his father, selling high-quality fabrics in England and the British colonies, and, about a decade later, he and his brother James took over the family import and export business.<ref>Armstrong 2002, xxxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson gained a reputation as an able and dedicated naturalist, and, in 1728, under the sponsorship of Sir Hans Sloane (1660&ndash;1753), he was elected to the Royal Society.<ref>O’Neill and McLean note that Collinson sponsored seventy-seven candidates for election to the Royal Society, including Mark Catesby, Georg Ehret, Benjamin Franklin, and Carl Linnaeus; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 26&ndash;27, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]. Collinson was also elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1737 and of the Royal Society of Sweden in 1747. Armstrong 2002, xxxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Collinson was born to Peter Collinson, a Quaker cloth merchant from London, and his wife, Elizabeth Hall, in 1694. He received his “first Likeing to Gardens & plants” at his grandmother’s in Peckham, Surrey, and noted in a memorandum he wrote later in life her preference for formal topiary, such as “Clip’d Yews in shapes of Birds, Dogs, Men & Ships &c.”<ref>Quoted in Jean O’Neill and Elizabeth P. McLean, ''Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-Century Natural History Exchange'', Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2008), cclxiv, 6, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson’s curiosity in natural history was, according to Jean O’Neill and Elizabeth P. McLean, also fostered by Quaker beliefs that encouraged gardening as a way to connect with God.<ref>O’Neill and McLean 2008, 5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> As a Quaker, Collinson was not permitted to attend an English university, and his knowledge of botany and natural history was likely largely self-taught, using the collection of natural history books he had amassed for his personal library.<ref>According to Armstrong, Collinson’s library included “most of the natural histories available and published in his time, along with biographies, travel accounts, gazetteers, geographies, mythologies, books on antiquities, astronomy, and practical science”; Armstrong 2002, xxiii, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref> In 1711 Collinson began working for his father, selling high-quality fabrics in England and the British colonies, and, about a decade later, he and his brother James took over the family import and export business.<ref>Armstrong 2002, xxxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson gained a reputation as an able and dedicated naturalist, and, in 1728, under the sponsorship of Sir Hans Sloane (1660&ndash;1753), he was elected to the Royal Society.<ref>O’Neill and McLean note that Collinson sponsored seventy-seven candidates for election to the Royal Society, including Mark Catesby, Georg Ehret, Benjamin Franklin, and Carl Linnaeus; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 26&ndash;27, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]. Collinson was also elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1737 and of the Royal Society of Sweden in 1747. Armstrong 2002, xxxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Through the Royal Society as well as his professional involvement with transatlantic trade, Collinson developed an extensive network of contacts in British North America and particularly among the Quaker community of Philadelphia. Collinson knew Thomas Penn (1702&ndash;1775), the son of Pennsylvania’s founder <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>William Penn<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </del>(1645&ndash;1718), who moved to Pennsylvania in 1732 and resided at [[Springettsbury]], his [[seat]] on the [[Schuylkill River]]. During the nine years that Penn lived there, Collinson acted as his agent in London and provided Penn with plants he imported for his estate, including grapevines, horse chestnuts, cornelian cherries, Syringos, pyracantha, phillyrea, and long-blowing honeysuckle. Collinson also sent Penn prints of English country [[seat]]s, books, and packages of seeds.<ref>O’Neill and McLean 2008, 93&ndash;94, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson corresponded with prominent Philadelphians Joseph Breintnall (d. 1746), the first Secretary of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the physician Dr. Samuel Chew (1693&ndash;1744).<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. Nancy E. Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 2004), 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="LC_cite"></span>By 1732 Collinson was helping the Library Company build its collection ([[#LC|view text]]). Through the Library Company, Collinson became acquainted with Benjamin Franklin, and, in 1745, Collinson sent Franklin publications on electricity to aid in his research. In 1751 Collinson published Franklin’s ''Experiments and Observations on Electricity''.<ref>Armstrong 2004, 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero]; Alfred E. Schuyler, chronology in O’Neill and McLean 2008, xx-xxi, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]. Collinson and Franklin finally met in person in London in 1757; Schuyler 2008, xxi, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Through the Royal Society as well as his professional involvement with transatlantic trade, Collinson developed an extensive network of contacts in British North America and particularly among the Quaker community of Philadelphia. Collinson knew Thomas Penn (1702&ndash;1775), the son of Pennsylvania’s founder William Penn (1645&ndash;1718), who moved to Pennsylvania in 1732 and resided at [[Springettsbury]], his [[seat]] on the [[Schuylkill River]]. During the nine years that Penn lived there, Collinson acted as his agent in London and provided Penn with plants he imported for his estate, including grapevines, horse chestnuts, cornelian cherries, Syringos, pyracantha, phillyrea, and long-blowing honeysuckle. Collinson also sent Penn prints of English country [[seat]]s, books, and packages of seeds.<ref>O’Neill and McLean 2008, 93&ndash;94, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson corresponded with prominent Philadelphians Joseph Breintnall (d. 1746), the first Secretary of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the physician Dr. Samuel Chew (1693&ndash;1744).<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. Nancy E. Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 2004), 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="LC_cite"></span>By 1732 Collinson was helping the Library Company build its collection ([[#LC|view text]]). Through the Library Company, Collinson became acquainted with Benjamin Franklin, and, in 1745, Collinson sent Franklin publications on electricity to aid in his research. In 1751 Collinson published Franklin’s ''Experiments and Observations on Electricity''.<ref>Armstrong 2004, 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/U6E9NBNZ view on Zotero]; Alfred E. Schuyler, chronology in O’Neill and McLean 2008, xx-xxi, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]. Collinson and Franklin finally met in person in London in 1757; Schuyler 2008, xxi, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span id="Robins_cite"></span>Collinson’s greatest interest was plants, and he developed gardens first at his home in Peckham and later at Mill Hill, located about ten miles northwest of London. In 1721 he wrote to George Robins (1697&ndash;1742) of Maryland, “Forget not Mee & My Garden,” hoping, perhaps, that Robins would send plants from North America ([[#Robins|view text]]). Two years later, he received seeds and plants from his cousin, Richard Hall, of Maryland, who sent Collinson ''Senna marilandica'' and a tulip tree, among other specimens.<ref>Armstrong 2002, xxxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero]; Schuyler 2008, xix, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 80, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Kalm_cite"></span>Upon visiting Collinson’s garden in Peckham, Pehr Kalm (1716&ndash;1779), the Swedish botanist and student of Carl Linnaeus (1707&ndash;1778), described how Collinson used horses’ knucklebones to edge the [[border]]s and remarked that it was “a beautiful little garden, full of all kinds of the rarest plants, especially American ones” ([[#Kalm|view text]]).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span id="Robins_cite"></span>Collinson’s greatest interest was plants, and he developed gardens first at his home in Peckham and later at Mill Hill, located about ten miles northwest of London. In 1721 he wrote to George Robins (1697&ndash;1742) of Maryland, “Forget not Mee & My Garden,” hoping, perhaps, that Robins would send plants from North America ([[#Robins|view text]]). Two years later, he received seeds and plants from his cousin, Richard Hall, of Maryland, who sent Collinson ''Senna marilandica'' and a tulip tree, among other specimens.<ref>Armstrong 2002, xxxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero]; Schuyler 2008, xix, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 80, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Kalm_cite"></span>Upon visiting Collinson’s garden in Peckham, Pehr Kalm (1716&ndash;1779), the Swedish botanist and student of Carl Linnaeus (1707&ndash;1778), described how Collinson used horses’ knucklebones to edge the [[border]]s and remarked that it was “a beautiful little garden, full of all kinds of the rarest plants, especially American ones” ([[#Kalm|view text]]).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Collinson’s garden became even more ambitious in 1749, when Collinson and his family moved from their home in Peckham to Ridgeway House in Mill Hill. Although his wife inherited the house upon the death of her father, Collinson had begun cultivating plants at the garden at Mill Hill years earlier.<ref>Collinson married Mary Russell (1704&ndash;1753) in 1724. Together they had a son named Michael (1727&ndash;1795) and a daughter named Mary. Before the family moved to Mill Hill, Collinson spent two years transferring plants from his garden in Peckham to Ridgeway House. Armstrong 2002, xxv, xxxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero]; Stephanie Volmer, “Planting a New World: Letters and Languages of Transatlantic Botanical Exchange, 1733&ndash;1777” (PhD diss., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2008), 48, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHFUA5FT view on Zotero]; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 146, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> His garden was better known for the variety of specimens he collected than for its overall design. While botanic artists such as Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708&ndash;1770), George Edwards (1694&ndash;1773), and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>Mark Catesby<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </del>(1683&ndash;1749) illustrated individual plants from Collinson’s garden, there is no known depiction of the garden itself.<ref>O’Neill and McLean 2008, 1, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]; Joel T. Fry, “America’s ‘Ancient Garden’: The Bartram Botanic Garden, 1728&ndash;1850,” in ''Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740&ndash;1840'', ed. Amy R. W. Meyers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 66, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU]. Armstrong observes that “while many of his contemporaries remarked on the extent and range of his collection, none describe the arrangement of the whole as remarkable”; Armstrong 2002, xxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson’s collection of lilies and orchids was particularly noteworthy.<ref>O’Neill and McLean 2008, 144, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Collinson 1768_cite"></span>He raised exotics in a forty-two-foot-long [[greenhouse]] and wrote about his delight at being able to “smell the sweets of so many odoriferous plants,” even when his garden was snow-covered ([[#Collinson 1768|view text]]).<ref>According to O’Neill and McLean, it remains unknown whether Collinson’s father-in-law left a greenhouse at Mill Hill or whether Collinson added it later. O’Neill and McLean 2008, 145, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Collinson 1762_cite"></span>His collection was targeted by thieves, and Collinson lamented in 1762 that “twenty-two different species of my most rare & beautifull plants” had been stolen from his garden ([[#Collinson 1762|view text]]).<ref>His gardens were also robbed in 1765 and 1768. O’Neill and McLean 2008, 153, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Collinson’s garden became even more ambitious in 1749, when Collinson and his family moved from their home in Peckham to Ridgeway House in Mill Hill. Although his wife inherited the house upon the death of her father, Collinson had begun cultivating plants at the garden at Mill Hill years earlier.<ref>Collinson married Mary Russell (1704&ndash;1753) in 1724. Together they had a son named Michael (1727&ndash;1795) and a daughter named Mary. Before the family moved to Mill Hill, Collinson spent two years transferring plants from his garden in Peckham to Ridgeway House. Armstrong 2002, xxv, xxxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero]; Stephanie Volmer, “Planting a New World: Letters and Languages of Transatlantic Botanical Exchange, 1733&ndash;1777” (PhD diss., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2008), 48, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VHFUA5FT view on Zotero]; O’Neill and McLean 2008, 146, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> His garden was better known for the variety of specimens he collected than for its overall design. While botanic artists such as Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708&ndash;1770), George Edwards (1694&ndash;1773), and Mark Catesby (1683&ndash;1749) illustrated individual plants from Collinson’s garden, there is no known depiction of the garden itself.<ref>O’Neill and McLean 2008, 1, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero]; Joel T. Fry, “America’s ‘Ancient Garden’: The Bartram Botanic Garden, 1728&ndash;1850,” in ''Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740&ndash;1840'', ed. Amy R. W. Meyers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 66, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNCISBCU]. Armstrong observes that “while many of his contemporaries remarked on the extent and range of his collection, none describe the arrangement of the whole as remarkable”; Armstrong 2002, xxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref> Collinson’s collection of lilies and orchids was particularly noteworthy.<ref>O’Neill and McLean 2008, 144, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Collinson 1768_cite"></span>He raised exotics in a forty-two-foot-long [[greenhouse]] and wrote about his delight at being able to “smell the sweets of so many odoriferous plants,” even when his garden was snow-covered ([[#Collinson 1768|view text]]).<ref>According to O’Neill and McLean, it remains unknown whether Collinson’s father-in-law left a greenhouse at Mill Hill or whether Collinson added it later. O’Neill and McLean 2008, 145, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Collinson 1762_cite"></span>His collection was targeted by thieves, and Collinson lamented in 1762 that “twenty-two different species of my most rare & beautifull plants” had been stolen from his garden ([[#Collinson 1762|view text]]).<ref>His gardens were also robbed in 1765 and 1768. O’Neill and McLean 2008, 153, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAQSCIFC view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Peter Collinson was a passionate amateur gardener and significant importer of American exotics into England throughout the middle of the 18th century [Fig. 1]. Although he never traveled to North America, he maintained an active correspondence with American colonists, especially [[John Bartram]] of Philadelphia, and traded seeds and plants with associates across the Atlantic Ocean for more than three decades.<ref>Alan W. Armstrong writes, “Although Collinson traveled extensively around England, he left it only once and never visited America”; see introduction to Peter Collinson, ''“Forget Not Mee & My Garden”: Selected Letters 1725&ndash;1768 of Peter Collinson, F.R.S.'', ed. Alan W. Armstrong (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2002), xxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref> In addition, Collinson played an important role in supporting the nascent Library Company of Philadelphia and bolstering the scientific experiments of Benjamin Franklin (1706&ndash;1790).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Peter Collinson was a passionate amateur gardener and significant importer of American exotics into England throughout the middle of the 18th century [Fig. 1]. Although he never traveled to North America, he maintained an active correspondence with American colonists, especially [[John Bartram]] of Philadelphia, and traded seeds and plants with associates across the Atlantic Ocean for more than three decades.<ref>Alan W. Armstrong writes, “Although Collinson traveled extensively around England, he left it only once and never visited America”; see introduction to Peter Collinson, ''“Forget Not Mee & My Garden”: Selected Letters 1725&ndash;1768 of Peter Collinson, F.R.S.'', ed. Alan W. Armstrong (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2002), xxv, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero].</ref> In addition, Collinson played an important role in supporting the nascent Library Company of Philadelphia and bolstering the scientific experiments of Benjamin Franklin (1706&ndash;1790).</div></td></tr>
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