John Bartram

And it was, you know, after the French and Indian Wars and Florida had, you know, been given over to the British government, that was territory that needed to be assessed.

And John Bartram traveled to northern Florida with William to basically do a real estate assessment of the St. John's River Valley, you know.

And that's truly like it reads like a real estate, you know, ad to read John Barsham's journals.

I mean, he was an astute botanist, too.

Expert on function of cell and fertilization is Ernest Just, Negro.

First botanical garden in world founded near Philadelphia by John Bartram, Welsh, early in eighteenth century.

Public Garden established in Georgia by General Oglethorpe, English, served as our first agricultural experiment station.

Scientific breeding of plants demonstrated by Luther Burbank, English-French-Netherlander-Scot.

Go figure.

But they do tend to do quite well in the South, with John Bartram, who is a very famous American botanist and horticulturalist, having received a barrel of pomegranates and oranges in 1764 from a correspondent in Charleston, South Carolina.

Thomas Jefferson also planted pomegranates at his residence, Monticello, in 1771.

That's really curious.

So the woodlands where we are right now, this was a private estate.

Bartram's Garden, that many people have visited, the oldest botanic garden in the country, was the home of John Bartram.

The Morris Arboretum was the estate of John and Lydia Morris.

And really, like, what exists today are almost shards of what this landscape would have looked like 100 years ago, 200 years ago, when there were a lot of large properties that had elaborate and intensive gardens on them.

He was kind of what you would call the prototypical point forward.

Played his high school ball at John Bartram and would eventually enroll at LaSalle, where he played for three years.

There's one game in his junior season in 1975 that I think can kind of paint the picture of the way that Jellybean approached the game of basketball and how it kind of differs from Kobe.

It's a late season game being played at the Palestra.