Syringa vulgaris ultimately for the plants, was Pietro Andrea Mattioli, as one can tell from a unique copy of Tradescant's plant list in his Lambeth garden, an adjunct of his "Musaeum Tradescantianum"; it was printed, though probably not published, in 1634: it lists "Lilac Matthioli". That Tradescant's "lilac of Mattioli's" was a white one is shown by Elias Ashmole's manuscript list, "Trees found in Mrs Tredescants Ground when it came into my possession" (1662): "Syringa alba". In the American colonies, lilacs were introduced in the 18th century. Peter Collinson, F.R.S., wrote to the Pennsylvania gardener and botanist John Bartram, proposing to send
Philadelphus × purpureomaculatus Philadelphus × purpureomaculatus Philadelphus" × "purpureomaculatus is a flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae, of garden origin. It is a hybrid between "P." × "lemoinei" and "P. mexicanus" 'Rose Syringa'. Growing to tall by broad, it is a deciduous shrub with broadly oval leaves up to long, and single, cup-shaped flowers in summer (June in the Northern Hemisphere). The flowers, which are strongly fragrant, are pure white with prominent purple markings near the centre; hence the Latin specific epithet "purpureomaculatus", literally "purple spotted". Valued in the garden as a summer-flowering shrub, the cultivar 'Sybille' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's