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Bartram's Garden launched a Franklinia Census in 1998 as part of the festivities
to commemorate John Bartram's 300th birthday in May 1999. Franklinia fans all over the world submitted surveys
by mail, fax, telephone and over the Internet.
Franklinias
have been extinct in the wild since the early 1800s. All Franklinias growing
today are descendants of those propagated by the Bartrams at their Philadelphia
garden.
Horticulturists
and historians have long wondered how widespread the Franklinia population
had become and how far the Bartram legacy had stretched across the nation
and around the globe. Thanks to the Franklinia Census, now we know!
Register
yours today!
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