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Portrait of John Fothergill...
According to our friends at the Morris Arboretum, Carl Linnaeus named it in honor of Quaker John Fothergill, who imported it from America for his Essex garden. Fothergill was an English Quaker physician and plant dealer in the 18th century. He never visited America but he opened his home to many American visitors in the 1700s. In 1762, Fothergill acquired an estate in Essex, outside of London, where he could delve into his botanical interests through a large garden of rare plants sent to him by John Bartram and Humphry Marshall of Pennsylvania, Quaker botanists. Marshall, in fact, sent Fothergill 44 different specimens. Marshall packed and sent at least ten boxes from Chester County to Fothergill’s estate between 1767 and 1775. John Fothergill was a very busy man, known for his botanical practices, as a host and correspondent, and his abolitionist stance and friendship with well-known abolitionist Anthony Benezet. Fothergill is the only Quaker with a namesake plant on this campus, but there are other plants named after Quakers out and about in the world, such as Darlingtonia californica (the pitcher plant, a carnivorous plant, named for William Darlingotn, coming soon) and (one that I mentioned earlier), Collinsonia canadensis, or richweed.
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Dwarf Fothergill (Fothergilla gardenii)
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According to our friends at the Morris Arboretum, Carl Linnaeus named it in honor of Quaker John Fothergill, who imported it from America for his Essex garden. Fothergill was an English Quaker physician and plant dealer in the 18th century. He never visited America but he opened his home to many American visitors in the 1700s. In 1762, Fothergill acquired an estate in Essex, outside of London, where he could delve into his botanical interests through a large garden of rare plants sent to him by John Bartram and Humphry Marshall of Pennsylvania, Quaker botanists. Marshall, in fact, sent Fothergill 44 different specimens. Marshall packed and sent at least ten boxes from Chester County to Fothergill’s estate between 1767 and 1775. John Fothergill was a very busy man, known for his botanical practices, as a host and correspondent, and his abolitionist stance and friendship with well-known abolitionist Anthony Benezet. Fothergill is the only Quaker with a namesake plant on this campus, but there are other plants named after Quakers out and about in the world, such as Darlingtonia californica (the pitcher plant, a carnivorous plant, named for William Darlingotn, coming soon) and (one that I mentioned earlier), Collinsonia canadensis, or richweed.
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"Dwarf Fothergill (Fothergilla gardenii)", Quaker Roots Walking Tour, Friends Historical Library, https://github.com/QRoots/Quaker-Walking-Tour/items/qr9.html
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