Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall / With notices of their botanical contemporaries. By William Darlington.

  • Darlington, William, 1782-1863.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall / With notices of their botanical contemporaries. By William Darlington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    398 PHILIP MILLER “eae kitchen gardens, we have many that are troublesome enough, such as the Ohickweed, which was brought from England. There is no getting rid of it. It flowers and seeds most part of the year. The Hendzt is also another, that flowers and gens most of the summer. Shepherd's Purse is very plentiful in good ground ; ity) many people make a good boiled salad of it; so is our wild Purslane very troublesome, though good when boiled. The small running Mallow is pestering enough ; and two or three kinds of Veronica. The Malvinda [Sida ?] is very bad; and so is the Mollugo. One very tall species of the Amaranth is very troublesome, but some boil it, to eat; and a species of Orach, which we call Lamb’s Quarter, is very tender when boiled. Doeks and Sorrel are plague enough in our pastures, meadows, and gardens, the last of which is very hard to root out. These are most of the noxious weeds of our gardens, that make us have so much work to destroy them, every year, beside the grasses. PHILIP MILLER TO JOHN BARTRAM. SIR :— I was yesterday favoured with your letter, dated June 16th, 1758, by which I am informed that part of the numbers: of .my Figures of Plants, which I sent you, have miscarried ; which gives me some concern, because they were duly sent as opporiamaies offered. ss % 3 ¢ . I sent to Mr. Coxninson all the remaining numbers of my Figures of Plants, and also those of the Gardener’s Dictionary, which have been printed since the last I sent you; which are directed for you, and Mr. Cottrnson promised.me to forward them immediately to you; so I hope you will receive them safely. In your next, pray inform me what numbers are wanting in each, that I may replace those which are lost. ‘: F) ee In the clod of earth which you sent me, there came up one sort of Crategus, which flowered last spring, and has now ripe fruit upon it, which is small, round, and black ; but it came too late to be in- serted in the Dictionary, so may be brought into a supplement. There is no determining the difference between Crategus, Mes- pilus, and Sorbus, either by the number of their styles, or that of