"In the great hive of London, like an industrious bee": a Quaker business background
"There is no end of the wonders in nature": learned societies, publications, and inklings of the enlightenment
"Our gardens will have more curious plants in them than ever": British-based botanists and horticulturists
"In hopes to improve, or at least adorn my country": eighteenth-century landscape
"My inclination does not flagg ... I endeavour to ... procure more": Colonial friends and correspondents
"Harvest and seed time": Peter Collinson and John Bartram
"Rare, curious & learned works": European friends and naturalists
"The glory of my garden & the trofies of friendship": Collinson's gardens at Peckham and Mill Hill.
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Peter Collinson and the eighteenth-century natural history exchange by Jean O'Neill. ISBN 9780871692641. Published by American Philosophical Society in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
