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Historians of horticulture are familiar with Peter Collin-son (1694–1768) as the great patron of John Bartram; together they introduced many North American plants to the English landscape.
biographies recently published: The Life of Peter Collinson, by Norman G. Brett-James, 1925; and Chapter 13 in Richard Hingston Fox's Dr. John Fothergill and his Friends. Considerable additional information has come to light since the publication of these volumes. An appraisal of the two books, and of other contributions on Collinson, appears
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English Quaker merchant Peter Collinson (January 28, 1694–August 11, 1768) traded seeds and plants with colleagues across the Atlantic Ocean, especially John Bartramof Philadelphia. Collinson is credited with introducing at least 150 species, mostly from British North America, to English gardens during the 18th century.
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 and traded seeds and plants with associates across the Atlantic Ocean for more tha...
Collinson, Peter, October 6, 1721, in a letter to George Robins of Talbot County, MD (quoted in O’Neill and McLean 2008: 12)
Unknown, “Helleborine America (Bletia purpurea) with Peter Collinson’s coat-of-arms,” in John Martyn, Historia Plantarum Rariorum(1728).G. D. Ehret (artist), J. Wandelaar (engraver), “Collinsonia,” in Carl Linnaeus, Hortus Cliffortianus(1737), plate V.John or William Bartram, "A Draught of John Bartram’s House and Gardenas it appears from the River", 1758.J. Miller (engraver), “Peter Collinson,” in John Fothergill, Some Account of the Late Peter Collinson(1770), frontispiece.The son of itinerant provincial actors, he was an orphan at 8 and a "street urchin," by his own admission, at 10. Through a series of improbable chances, including acting experience at an orphanage for the children of theater people, he gradually worked himself into the theater and then into television as a BBC director.
Jan 5, 2002 · John Bartram’s son William (1739–1823), a student in the Academy of Philadelphia, was already a promising artist, whose “pretty performances” in drawing plants and flowers Collinson encouraged by rewards and orders.
1727 Peter Collinson’s son Michael born (d.1795): Hans Sloane becomes president of the Royal Society: 1727-1760 George II was King of Great Britain (b.1683 – d.1760). 1728 Peter Collinson elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS): the first decade of John Martyn’s Historia Plantarum Rariortum is published in London:
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Jan 4, 2002 · The “Replies and Vindications” elicited by Bolingbroke’s Letters on the Study and Use of History (London, 1752), were those of Bishop Robert Clayton, James Hervey, John Leland, and Peter Whalley, published in 1752 and 1753.
