Cadwallader Colden by Seymour I. Schwartz

Author:Seymour I. Schwartz
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781616148546
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2013-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

Doctor Garden writes Doctor Whytt, that, in the summer 1754, he met, about a mile from the town of New York in New England, with a plant, which, at first, he took to be a hypericum, but, on examining it, found it different; upon which he took down its characters, and sent them, some days later, to Miss Jenny Colden (daughter of the Honourable Cadwallader Colden) a very ingenious young lady and curious Botanist. In return to this, Miss Colden sent Dr. Garden the characters of a plant which proves to be the same; it is No. 1533 of her collection, and was first found by her, Summer 1753. Using the privilege of a first discoverer, she was pleased to call the new plant Gardenia, in compliment to Dr. Garden.87

Alexander Garden's name remains engrained with those of John Mitchell and Cadwallader Colden in the taxonomy of the world's flora.

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