After the American Revolution, John Bartram, Jr. and his brother William Bartram , carried on a horticultual business begun by their father Their botanic garden grew through three generations of the Bartram family. Bartram's Garden remained the major botanic garden in Philadelphia until the last Bartram heirs sold it in 1850. - from Wikipedia.
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