President George Washington (1732 – 1799) of Virginia owned:
The universal gardener and botanist or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in botanical arrangement, according to the Linnæan system, every tree, shrub, and herbaceous plant, ... By Thomas Mawe, ... And John Abercrombie, by John Abercrombie
Catalogue of plants, exotic and indigenous, in the Botanical Garden, Jamaica by Thomas Dancer
The Botanical magazine; or Flower-garden displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the open ground, the green-house, and the store, are accurately represented in their natural colours
An account of the culture and use of the mangel wurzel, or root of scarcity by Abbé de Commerell
An inaugural botanico-medical dissertation, on the Phytolacca decandra of Linnaeus by Benjamin Shultz
Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana by M. Bossu
