Box 1, Folder 3: Lapham's Collections

H House plants

Mesembianthemum subulatum H Evergreen trailer 4 inches, pink, Cape G. H. Cuttings, sand & loam, Ficoideae " pineatum H

Anothera macrocaipa D — Herb. perennial 4 ft, yellow, N. Am., Diviaio, sand & peat Orograceae

Petunia — (variegated & white) H Scrophulum

Pentstemon coccineumv(Hardy)Rosaceae

Potentilla Thomasii (Hardy) " Pennyanum (Hardy) "

Pelargonium — D — 19 sorts " Alexandrina p 574 fine white with dark spots — " albinatata — or favorite purple — purple " ardeus — Deep scarlet " belladonna — white, with red lines or spots " crispum = (superbum) 3 ft purple " comptuna = crispalum " diadonatum — pink with red or purple lines or spots " Duke of Bedford " elegans — 3 ft — white — Cape of G. Hope. cuttings, rich mould ([illegible])=very fine large red with black lines or spots Mc[illegible]) " hybrida — 2 ft. striped " Lord Denmon — Large — Crimson (very dark shades) " Lanceolata — (Dead) " Macranthon — White & stripes " Majestic (Dead) purple " Nutmeg — (P. fragrans?) 2 ft variegated " quercofolia — 3 ft — purple Cape G.H. (Dead) " Queen of Scotts — very fine large red with black lines or spots — Mc[illegible] " vadula — 3 ft purple " Sanguinea " Waterloo " Cordatum — 3 ft purple — Dead

Tecoma — H. (Bignonia)

Salvia cuccinea D — Scarlet Sage, Shrub 2 ft S. Amer. Cuttings, peat & loam Labiateae

Verbena — D (6 sorts) " albicans (Dead) " grandiflora (Dead) " lilacea=superba (Dead) " Mestoniana (Dead) " Smithu (Dead) " (not named) (Dead)

Paeonia whittlejus " fragrans " albicans

Horticultural register 1845

March

25 — Farmed ou the "Back Garden" to Frederick Staltze — He having "two parts in three" — set Dahlias in Hot=bed — Tulips up, also crocus spanish iris &c — Planted a small bed of Onions on light sandy soil in new ground — several Pelargoniums show flower beds — also Heliotrope and verbena —

27 a warm spring day — no frost last night

30 — Snow drops in flower

April

2d — Yellow crocus in flower.

7th Snow last night 2 inches — very cold —

10th warm again.

12th sowed giant tomatto in hot bed —

15th continued dry weather — Asparagus up —

19 — sowed cabbage seed — also peas & rhubarb from Washington

20 — Frost last night

22 — Hyacinth (Passatout) in flower

23 Hard rain cold — Peach tree in flower

28 — "Fine Hyacinth" — White — in flower. —Garden Cherry ditto. Planted from seeds purchased of H. & Hall.}

Garden Seeds from Patent Office Washington

Through Mr [Helfentien?] — April 1845

Brassica oleracea — Early Bullock Heart cabbage " " Large Bergen or Great American cabbage " " Cromwells Drum Head cabbage " " Heal's Imperial cabbage

Rheum rhaponticum — Victoria Rhubarb Rubia tinctorum Madder Raphanus sativus (var) Large Yellow Turnip Radish Sinapis — Brown Mustard Sinapis alba — White Mustard Daucus carota — Large & long orange carrot Pastinaca sativa — Cup parsnip Pisum sativum Baltimore Extra early pea " Victoria pea " Waterloo Blue pea " Nonperiel Bean " Speckled Valentine Marrow bean " Black eye Nova Scotia bean Cucurbita Crook neck winter squash " Valparaiso squash " Apple bush squash " Autumnal marrow squash Zea maise Small corn for pickling " Improved Dutton corn

Purchased of Hale & Hopkins

Francoa appendiculata 1 or 4

Brachycome iberidifolia — (Sky Blue Brachycoma) half hardy annual.

Celosia cristata rana — Dwarf coxcomb — 2 ft — dark red — June — rich mould Amaranthaceae

Trachymene coerulea Leguminosae

Blumenbackia insiguis — white 1 ft.

Sanvitalia procumbens — 1 ft, yellow, July, Mexico — Compositeae

Lobelia gracilis — 1 Dark blue 1 ft. July (N. S. Wales) Lobelireae

Ipomea purpurea var. Rosea — climing Convolvulaceae

Thunbergia (mixed) Acanthaceae

Xeranthemun bracteatum "New Yellow Eternal Flower" 1 ft Compositeae

Maurandia Barclayana — Climing — Dark purple —Scrophulariaceae

Ipomopsis Peruvian — Biennial — Scarlet.