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From the woods of north-west America came that familiar evergreen shrub Mahonia pinnata, which in some gardens to-day is almost a weed; yet such was the enthusiasm with which it was first received that roots commanded a price of ten guineas each.

— Edward James Salisbury The Living Garden (1935)

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It was not till the middle of the nineteenth century that the rich harvest of American shrubs really began to be garnered, though the Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) had already introduced from there in 1663.

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