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discovered American varieties and specialty plants sent from Europe – led to him writing the 1785 book, “Arbustum Americanum: The American Grove, An Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs, Natives of the American United States.” The book used the Linnaean system of Latin names for plants, making it difficult for many readers at the time to grasp. There were also no illustrations in the book, limiting its appeal to a broad audience beyond scientists and botanists. But the book was a landmark, and Marshall got many things right. The names he came up with for many plants and trees, including the sugar maple, were not changed by successive generations of research, Martinez said. Marshall married twice but had no children, and subsequent authors and botanists gave Marshall’s work only sparing credit. “He is also too casual at the wrong times,” Martinez said. “He says a plant is ‘tallish,’ or ‘greenish,’ for instance. I do think he was a much better writer
The Martinez home is decorated with items related to art and history.
than John Bartram. Humphry was not an artist – he was a hardcore scientist. He didn’t have the artistic sensibility that the Bartrams had that made them more accessible.” While Marshall’s extensive garden in Marshallton is gone, there are yellow aconite flowers that still bloom on the grounds – descendants
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