Box 1, Folder 3: Lapham's Collections

* David Thomas, pomologist and agriculturalist

Cayuga Co. N. Y. Chief Eng. on Erie & Willand canals.

His contributions to Genesee Farmer led to reat practical improvements, and more enlightened views of agricultura.

Received from David Thomas * Oct. 1844

Yucca flaccida, Haw. 2 ft — Whitish green — Division of root — rich loam Liliaceae Clematis erecta, Willd — herbacous perennial — 3 ft. July Aug. white, Austria — Division pt & loam Ranunculus verticullatis D.C. climbing shrub 15 ft. May June — purple. Layers sand & peat — [illegible] — Rosa Carolina L (Carolina Rose) 5 ft June July — red N. America, Layers — sand & peat Rosaceae Centifolia L. ([Provis?] Rose, Royal) — 3 ft. July Aug — pink, S. Euorpe — Layers, rich mould [illegible] Maheka rose, Double Sweet bier "rose " Dictamnus fraxinella Pink Red herbaceous per 3 ft Germany — Divide root — peat & loam Rutaceae albus. L. white 3 ft Campanula grandiflor, Willd, " " 1 ft blue Siberia Division " " Campanulaceae Calycanthus glaucus? Silene regiasSims — Ohio 1 1/2 feet crimson May-Aug, Division — peat & loam Caryophyllaceae Cydonia Japonica — Japan Quince — Shrub 4 ft layers rich loam Rosaceae

Fruit trees

Pyrus ameriniaca L. Apricot —

Pyrus communis, Willd Pear —

September pear or Summer Bow Chretien Virgalieu pear Rostiezer pear Seckell — "the richest of all pears" Steven's Genesee pear

Cydonia vulgaris Quince

Amygdalus Pernica Peach

Early Tillotson peach Early York peach Seabolts Red peach Early Red seedling

Pyrus malus — apple Gravenstein apple Fall orange [illegible] Yellow harvest } graft Jonathan } graft

Prunus Plum Green gage plum

Prunus cerasus — Cherry (14 kinds)

White Tartarian Black — [illegible] — Genuine May duke Transparent Guigne Carnation Early red May Drake? Late red May Drake Halsey Bigarreau Guifford seedling Purple Elton Yellow Spanish Black eagle Old Whiteheart.

House plants of Woodward & others

Camellia Japonica — ^ (Dead) May — July — Red — China — cuttings — peat & loam Cammellieae

Pelagronum laterpipes L;Her — (July leaved) 2 ft — June July — plae purple, cuttings Geraniaceae

(3 other species) "

Hedera Helix (English Ivy) 40 ft — green — layers, common soil Caprifoliaceae

Portulacca splendors Portulaccaceae

Basella tuberosa Chenopodiacea

Mathiola incana R. Br. (Stock Gilly Flower) 2 ft May to Nov. purple — cuttings — rich m Crucifereae

Malpha coccinea