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John Bartram 
of Philadelphia



After taking part in the Bartram Tercentary in 1999, Gareth Evans outlines the life and character of the man described as America's first botanist.  
Herbs, vol. 24 no. 3 1999.  
Herbs, the journal of the Herbs Society

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'Who was John Bartram?'
Chelsea Physic Garden Newsletter, 
Autumn-Winter 1999.
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Further Reading:

The Correspondence of John Bartram. Edmund & Dorothy Smith Berkeley,  The University Press of Florida (1992).
‘The Medical Botany of John Bartram’, Christopher Hobbs, Pharmacy in History Vol. 33 (1991).
The New Green Pharmacy  Barbara Griggs, Vermilion (1997).     



​Bartram's Historic Garden website



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