GENERAL CATALOGUE. 



HAVING concluded the necessary instructions for perform- 

 ing; the principal horticultural works of the entire year (I hope to 

 the satisfaction and advantage of my fellow-citizens, and the public) 

 I now proceed to the General Catalogue, which I shall endeavour 

 to arrange and subdivide in such a manner as to be convenient, in- 

 teresting, and inductive to a botanical or scientific knowledge of 

 plants ; the importance of which to society, in as much as vegetables 

 have relation to medicine, manufactures, the production of valuable 

 articles of necessity and commerce, is so well known to every civili- 

 zed nation, that it is unnecessary to recapitulate it's advantages. The 

 innocent, healthful, and pleasing amusement that Botanical studies 

 might afford to the fair daughters of Columbia, who have leisure 

 time to devote to such, is also a very important object, as in that 

 way, many happy and enchanting hours might be delightfully spent 

 to useful and salubrious purposes, which otherwise would hang hea- 

 vily or be trifled away perhaps to disadvantage. 



The subdivisions shall be given in the order in which they are 

 treated of in the work, and there are few, if any, plants therein, 

 some double and monstrous varieties excepted, but may be raised 

 from seed, if obtained fresh from their respective native coun- 

 tries, or from where they arrive at due maturity ; at present, an 

 immense number of them are in possession of, and for sale by tl}e 

 Author of this work, and every effort shall be made on his part 

 to procure the greatest collection possible, as well of the beautiful 

 and curious, as of the more important and valuable sorts, 



A CATALOGUE OF KITCHEN-GARDEN ESCULENT 

 PLANTS AND HERBS. 



COMMON NAMES. BOTANICAL NAMES. 



ARTICHOKE, Garden - - Cynara Scolymus 



1. Green Globe. 2. White Globe. 



3. French. 



Artichoke, Jerusalem Helianthus tuberosus 



Asparagus, the Garden Asparagus officinalis 



1. Dutch 2. Gravesend. 3. Bat- 



tersea. 4. Large Jersey. 



