...think in her " palace at Stockholm of poor John Bertram, " on the banks of the Schuylkill; appeareth to " me very strange." Not in the least, dear Sir;...sometimes from the throne, to walk in the gardens of Linnasus? " 'Tis to the directions " of that learned man (said Mr. Bertram) that 41 1 am indebted for...

...think in her " palace at Stockholm of poor John Bertram, " on the banks of the Schuylkill; appeareth to " me very strange." Not in the least, dear Sir;...a botanist hath done honour to America; it is very najtural at the same time to imagine, that so extensive a continent must contain many curious plants...

...on the banks of the Schuylkill, appeareth to me very strange." And gracefully his visitor replied: "Not in the least, dear Sir; you are the first man...name as a botanist hath done honour to America." It was the Swedish Linnaeus who called Bartram "the greatest of natural botanists in the world." At Thirty-ninth...

...an entire chapter of Letters from an American Farmer to an appreciation of him, called John Bartram "the first man whose name as a botanist hath done honour to America" (Crevecoeur 1981, 194). A lengthy trip from Pennsylvania into Canada resulted in John Bartram's Observations...