Publisher:
Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society: 1963
Two illustrations and a map, large slim quarto, pp 69, paperback, a very good copy. [Trans.Am.Phil.Soc. Vol 53 part 2]. { Lyon appears to have trained as a nurseryman and gardener, probably on a large country estate near Dundee. He was certainly living in Pennsylvania by 1796 when he joined William Hamilton at Woodlands near Philadelphia as Director of planting. From 1799 he began plant-collecting in the Allegheny Mountains. He did much collection in the state over the next nine years, and left the estate in 1805. In 1806 he took a collection of plants from America to London. Returning to Ame...
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