Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece of local history. I'm a gardener too.
Pruned back 7 roses today and yanked one to pull out the nasty elm that had
come up in the middle. So I really appreciated the interesting piece below.
Linda ina Albuq. Sun was shining and warm today!

At 09:43 PM 3/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>MARTHA DANIEL LOGAN
>HORTICULTURIST
>1702-1779
>
> "In 1753 the South Carolina Gaxette carried Martha Logan's advertisement:'A
>parcel of very good seed, flower roots, and fruit stones to be sold on the
>Green near Trott's Point.'
>
>Martha's early education, like that of most young women of her day, included
>reading, writing, and needle work.  But Martha enjoyed working with flowers
>and plants, for her father was in the nursery business.  Robert Daniel, one
>of the last of the proprietary governors, died when his daughter was
>thirteen years old.  Perhaps Martha inherited his business, as she did land
>along the Wando River.
>
>Shortly afterher father's death, Martha married George Logan, Jr..  The
>couple had eight children.  During this period Martha advertised in the
>Gazette that she would board students and tutor them at their Wando River
>home.  Somewhat later she worked in a boarding school in Charleston.
>
>Still, Martha's chief interest lay in gardening.  She had known a Mrs.
>Lamboll, one of the first to have a garden in Charleston, and may have
>studied with her.  At any rate, gardening rapidly became a fashionable hobby
>of the time, and wealthy ladies and gentlemen where very interested in
>planting their grounds with rare plants and shrubsd.  As a result of her
>interest, Martha printed a "GARDENER'S KALENDAR," and wrote a treatise on
>gardening that was published in 1752 in John Tobler's, SOUTH CAROLINA ALMANACK.
>
>In her nursery business, Martha took advantage of the ships that sailed from
>Charleston to Philadelphia.  The good-natured captains would carry llarge
>tubs planted with roots and cuttings of all kinds.
>
>John Bartram, a noted biologist with whom Martha exchanged seeds, wrote to a
>London correspondant:  "Mrs. Logan's garden is her delight."  Along with
>their correspondence a "little silk bagg," crammed with seeds, went back and
>forth between Charleston, Philadelphia, and London.
>
>Once Martha wrote Bartram: "I have lost my tulips and hyacinths, I had in a
>closet to dry and the mice ate them."
>
>South Carolinians also enjoyed Martha's nursery business.  One woman wrote
>in her diary in 1763 of having been to Mrs. Logan's to buy roots.
>
>Whether or not her nursery was profitable, Martha Logan's life was a
>rewarding one.  She had family, friends, and flowers.  It was because of her
>flowers that she has gained a place in the history of American gardening.
>
>Mrs. Logan died in Charleston on June 28, 1779, and was buried in the family
>vault, since destroyed, in Saint Philip's churchyard.
>
>**Note**  This is the entire write-up that was in : SOUTH CAROLINA WOMEN by
>Idella Bodie.  I hope this is what you were looking for.  Anne P.
>
>
>
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