ABERDEEN BEE HIVE STRAWBERRY. 



JAMES M. THORBURN & CO., 



NO. 15, JOHN-STKEET, NEW-YOKK, 



WILL have ready for delivery from their Garden, (Astoria, L. I.,) 1st of August, 1848, a few hun- 

 dred of this celebrated ne a^ Strawberry, which has been out over a year in Scotland and England ; 

 no contradiction of its great bearing and excellent qualities having yet appeared. It is thus set forth 

 in an advertisement^ by the grower, in the London Gardeners' and Farmers' Journal, May 20, 1848 : 



"The Aberdeen Bee-hive, — so extensively circulated and highly appreciated the two last seasons 

 throughout Great Britain and France, as being superior to all others in cultivation ; the earliest, highest 

 flavored, and the most prolific, — one plant producing a number equal to twenty of any other sort ; each 

 plant throws from fifty to an hundred and twenty clusters, forming a top resembling a bee-hive. So 

 regularly do they ripen, that they may be gathered in bunches of from twelve to thirty bright scarlet 

 berries, of a round shape, garnished with a green husk folding toward the stalk. The extraordinary 

 appearance of the fruit is more than can be comprehended, but by those who have seen them on the 

 ground or table, where they have been greatly admired. They make a transparent preserve; the 

 interior being the same as the exterior. Upwards of five hundred specimens of the fruit were sent out 

 last season, which is sufficient to establish its merits." 



The stock from which ours were raised was imported when it was new, and cost £2, lOs. sterling for 

 one dozen plants. Our experience of its merits are no further, than three plants fruited in the green- 

 house last winter, were weak by being recently imported and forced to induce runners ; with these 

 disadvantages, they were up to expectation, — bearing masses of beautiful high coloured fruit, as de- 

 scribed above by Mr. Mathewson, of Aberdeen, from whose nursery we received ihem direct by steana 

 in December last. 



The subscribers will not involve themselves in any guarantee, as to their being as described by the 

 Scotch grower ; nor think the criticisms of editors of horticultural periodicals, either lor or against their 

 merits, of any moment, as they have never yet been fairly tested in a bed out of doors. Their fruiting 

 in pots in a green-house, and when just imported and driven forward, gives no just idea of their merit. 

 We warrant ours to be the genuine Bee-hive, direct from Aberdeen ; and as it is a northern county of 

 Scotland, will no doubt prove hardy, which is of importance, — many of the finest European sorts not 

 enduring our climate without protection, as British Queen and others, which are superior in England. 

 Price $3 per dozen, strongly rooted in small pots, packing included. 



Also, the following first rate sorts : — Hovey's Seedling, $1.50 per hundred — $10 per thousand. Boston 

 Pine, $2 per hundred. Buist's Prize, $3. Princesse Alice Maude, extra fine sort, $2. Myatt's Eliza, 

 €Xtra fine and famous bearer, $2. Scotch Pine or Crimson Cone, $1.50. Iowa, $1.50. North's Vic- 

 tory, $1.50. 



August 1, 1S48— 2t. 



TULIPS. 



ry^HE subscriber has for sale the largest collection of choice named Tulips on this continent. His 



X specimen beds contain upwards of 10,000 bulbs of the finest named kinds, which he now oflTers in 



large or small assortments, at much lower rates than similar kinds can be obtained in this country, or 



in Europe. ,/•,,• 



Fine assortments, selected by the subscriber, will be furnished at the toUowing rates : 



100 Cor more) choicest named kinds, 2 of each kind, $15 per 100 roots. 

 100 '• " " 1 " 18 



50 " " 1 " 10 



100 " " mixed, 10 



Best named kind, 1 of each, $3 per dozen— mixed kinds, $1 per dozen. 

 Where a small selection is made from the Catalogue, they will be supplied at from 25 to 50 cents 

 each, according to quality ; if a dozen or more is selected, a discount of 20 per cent will be made. 

 Catalogues supplied to a'll post-paid applicants. Orders will be promptly attended to, and the roots 

 carefully packed and forwarded according to directions. Directions for planting, &c., given if required. 

 ^ ^ JAMES DOUGALL, 



Aurrust 1. 1848 — 2t*. Rosebank, near Amherstburgh, Canada West. 



