Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John Jr. BARTRAM
Upon John's death in 1777, one of his sons, William, followed in his father's shoes, becoming and important botanist in his own right. However control over Bartram Gardens, Bartram's estate and botanical garden in Philadelphia, passed to John Bartram, Jr., who maintained the horticultural and botanical business there. Like his father, John, Jr., maintained an active interest in medically or ornamentally useful plants, publishing at least one sales catalog, Catalogue of American trees shrubs and herbacious plants, : most of which are now growing, and produce ripe seed in John Bartram's garden, near Philadelphia. The seed and growing plants of which are disposed of on the most reasonable terms (Philadelphia, 1784).
At the turn of the century, several other Bartrams held professional interests in medicine and allied fields, including the druggists and apothecaries at 39 N. 3rd Street, Isaac and his son Isaac, and Moses and his son, druggists at 58 N. 2nd Street, both in Philadelphia. Bartram maintained accounts with a large number of customers, mostly physicians, over the years covered in this volume, including his relatives Moses and Isaac Bartram, both apothecaries and druggists, and other familiar figures from southeastern Pennsylvania, including Jacob Baker, Samuel Fahnstock, and Jonathan Kearsle
In addition to plants and plant products, Bartram dealt in glass, salt petre, ochre and other pigments, and other goods used in the pharmaceutical trade. Four pages at the end of the volume list purchasers of Bartram Garden's famed roses in 1801-1803.
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