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PREFACE. 



The Proprietors in tendering their new Catalogue with reduced prices, desire to -j 

 state *hat their Fruit and Ornamental Trees, &c. arc nearly all of large size and vig- 

 frowth, and superior to any before offered to the public. The establishment 

 s at the present period more than a million of Trees and Plants, and the Pro- 

 ; are willing to enter into arrangements of the most liberal description both as 

 is and credit with all such persons as desire large quantities of Trees, &c. and " 

 >se proprietors of Nurseries who wish to extend their collections, and such other 

 as may wish to establish new Nurseries, they will make arrangements 

 $ which will allow ample time for advantagcoiis reimbursement. Any persons 



irous to act as Agents in towns where no agency at present exists, will j 

 : communicate their views in regard thereto. 



j he fruit trees in the catalogue are either grafted or inocculated, and are propaga- 

 ted from such European and American kinds as have acquired a well merited cele- 

 brity, the whole collection of which has recently undergone a most careful revision, 

 and the selections have been made with great care and attention. Every precaution * 

 is taken which is necessary to preserve the different varieties completely distinct, and 

 all the peach and other trees are perfectly healthy, and free from disease. Many 

 persons, however, are apt to purchase trees without regard to any point but their 

 cheapness, and not unfrequently, after the toil and expense of years, find them, when 

 they arrive at bearing, absolutely worthless. Others who regard the price only, pay 

 no attention to the size, and vigour of the trees, and consequently sacrifice many 

 years uselessly before their orchards come into bearing. The strongest proofs the 

 proprietors can give the public of their anxiety to guard against misconception, are 

 the precise descriptions contained in the Treatises recently published, and other works 4i 

 of a similar character, in which they are now engaged ; the result of which will be, 

 that any person, however ignorant on the subject, cannot fail to know if he has been 

 deceived. 



In regard to the identity of the various kinds of fruits, the Proprietors do not pre- 

 tend to a perfect infallibility, but they do constantly aim at that point, and therefore "! 

 if an inadvertent error occasionally arise, it is because their unwearied scrutiny has 

 not been able to guard against it. 



One great advantage possessed by the trees sent from this establishment, is their 

 particular hardihood. From the proximity of the nurseries to the ocean on one side, ^ 

 and to the East River on the other, with a free and open exposure to all winds, ac- 

 companied by the particular advantage of being so far north as to acclimatize the 

 trees to any still more northern section of our country, they acquire a degree of har- 

 dihood which renders them extremely eligible for colder latitudes, and to support the 

 rigour of less favored regions, and trees thus hardened by nature are also found to 

 succeed best in our southern states. It is doubtless to these causes that is to be at- 

 tributed the general success which has attended the trees sent from this establish- 

 ment, even when transmitted to Nova Scotia, the Canadas, &c. and the winter of 

 1831-32, incontestably proved their superior hardihood, they having withstood the 

 severity of that season uninjured) while immense numbers of trees elsewhere in the 

 middle, and in the Eastern States, were destroyed thereby. 



Specimen trees of every variety of fruit comprised in this catalogue, are now stand- 

 ing in the experimental orchards of the establishment, and all kinds are ready for sale. 

 The stock of some of the newest sorts, however, is limited, and the trees, in conse- 

 quence of their recent introduction are of less size. Many other varieties will be an- 

 nounced hereafter in a Supplementary Catalogue, additional time being necessary as 

 well for their propagation, as for judicious investigations. New fruits are not added 

 to the collection, merely, because their names differ, but a selection is made of those 

 only, which merit and have received the encomiums of persons acquainted with the 

 subject. 



A large number of the apples are the same as described by Mr. Coxe, and the 

 Treatise on Fruits or Pomological Manual, published by the proprietors, contains de* 

 scriptions of near 800 varieties of the different fruits. 



