This article describes the history of plant introductions from Japan into North America, from the Perry Expedition in 1854 through the collections of George Rogers Hall of Bristol, Rhode Island and Thomas Hogg of New York City between 1861 and 1875. Both men sent plants to the innovative nurseryman, Samuel Bowne Parsons of Flushing, Long Island, who propagated and sold them to the gardening public. This process, which took more than twenty years from initial collection through commercial distribution, succeeded in adding innumerable Japanese species into the ornamental landscapes of North America, including Japanese maple, kousa dogwood, panicle hydrangea, and Sawara cypress. Unfortunately these early introductions also included a number of species which escaped cultivation and have become infamously invasive, including oriental bittersweet, kudzu, porcelain berry and Japanese honeysuckle. The pioneering work of these three horticulturists--compounded over the past hundred and fifty years--has had a profound impact on both cultivated and wild landscapes across North America.

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日本植物传入北美

这篇文章描述了植物从日本引入北美的历史，从 1854 年的佩里远征到 1861 年至 1875 年间罗德岛州布里斯托尔的乔治罗杰斯大厅和纽约市的托马斯霍格的收藏。长岛法拉盛的塞缪尔·鲍恩·帕森斯 (Samuel Bowne Parsons) 将它们传播并出售给园艺公众。这一从最初采集到商业流通历时二十多年的过程，成功地将无数日本树种添加到北美的观赏景观中，包括日本枫树、库萨山茱萸、穗绣球花和佐原柏树。不幸的是，这些早期引入的物种还包括一些逃脱栽培并成为臭名昭著的入侵物种，包括东方苦乐参、葛、瓷浆果和日本金银花。这三位园艺家的开创性工作——在过去的一百五十年里——对整个北美的栽培和野生景观产生了深远的影响。