USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He was botanist for the American colonies to King George III. Bartram was the first North American experimenter to hybridize flowering plants, and he established near Philadelphia a botanical garden that became internationally famous.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bartram was one of the first ornithologists born in America. In 1756, at the age of 17, he collected the type specimens of 14 species of American birds, which were illustrated and described by the English naturalist George Edwards in Gleanings of Natural History vol. 2 (1760).

Detailed explanation-3: -“John Bartram’s Travels on the St. Johns River, 1765-1766.” In the winter of 1765-66 a sixty-six year old Quaker from Pennsylvania named John Bartram, accompanied by his son William Bartram, traveled in a dugout canoe to explore East Florida’s most important waterway, the St. Johns River.

Detailed explanation-4: -Called the greatest natural botanist by Carl Linnaeus, John Bartram was the founder of a botanical garden near Philadelphia in which he grew native plants and specimens from abroad, and which served as a base for his botanical explorations.