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
Gracillaria arsenievi lower side. The cocoon is situated on the edge of a living leaf around the leaf roll. It is whitish and boat-shaped. The species probably hibernates in the adult stage. Gracillaria arsenievi Gracillaria arsenievi is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and the Russian Far East. The wingspan is 10-13.2 mm. The larvae feed on "Fraxinus americana", "Fraxinus chinensis", "Fraxinus mandshurica", "Fraxinus pennsylvanica", "Syringa amurensis", "Syringa reticulata" and "Syringa vulgaris". They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as upper epidermal and tortuous-linear, and later becomes a