On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae

As a result of this, Salisbury was accused of plagiarism and ostracised from botanical circles.

Contemporary notes and letters indicate widespread condemnation of Salisbury's actions.

For example, Samuel Goodenough wrote "How shocked was I to see Salisbury's surreptitious anticipation of Brown's paper on new Holland plants, under the name and disguise of Mr. Hibbert's gardener!

"; and James Edward Smith wrote that he had a copy of Knight's paper "but shall not keep it — I mean hereafter not to notice it or any other of the author's productions."

Thus On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae is the source of numerous names of Proteaceae taxa.