Hans Sloane
Her London house was next to that of Sir Hans Sloane, making her a neighbour of the Chelsea Physic Garden. Her herbarium, in twelve volumes, 'gathered and dried by order of Mary Duchess of Beaufort', she bequeathed to Sir Hans Sloane, by whose bequest it came to the Natural History Museum. Her two-volume florilegium of drawings by Everard Kickius of her most choice exotics remains in the library at Badminton. Among her introductions to British gardening, most of which were greenhouse plants, are "Pelargonium zonale" one of the parents of the zonal pelargoniums of gardens, ageratum and the Blue Passion Flower ("Passiflora caerulea").