REMARKS. 



The Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, contained in the annexed 

 Catatoue, can be packed in such manner as to be transport- 

 ed at aty Reason of the year ; and all orders from a distance 

 See ve me same pointed attention as if the persons desiring 

 Sem were p"sen?to make their selections ; information will 

 also be freely imparted with regard to the best means o cul- 

 ture, &c. ; and the packages will be shipped to any port de- 

 signated. ' Remittances can be made by draft on any cay 

 Sum Portland to New-Orleans. In the transmissior .of ^lan.ts 

 to foreign countries, and to the various ports of the Union 

 New- York possesses decided advantages, regular packets 

 beine established with a great number of places, both at 

 home anu abroad, and her general facilities of intercourse 

 feeing so enlarged and increasing. , 

 Kering ?o the public this Catalogue, the Proprietor 

 •annot refrain from calling the attention of amateurs o the 

 Bumerous highly interesting trees and plants which it con- 

 E, and many of whir.h are found in no other collection in 

 our county. These have, in many instances, been attended 

 with such expenses in their importation, that had a desire for 

 profit alone animated the Proprietor, he would not have been 

 L ardent in obtaining them : but desirous that our country 

 Sould at least hold that rank in her botanic collections 

 which she does in every other respect, and influenced by 

 that zeal which ever inspires the votaries of Flora, he has in- 

 curred disbursements to an amount never hazarded by any 

 other individual in our country. The prices of the plants 

 newly imported are regulated by iheir absolute cost, and will 

 be lessened as their culture may be attended With more or 

 less success; many of those of less recent introduction are 

 now placed at prices much reduced. An establishment so 

 extensive as this, cannot of course be conducted without im- 

 mense disbursements, in making which the Proprietor has 

 ereatly to rely upon the patronage he may receive in the saie 

 of its productions. It is his desire to introduce into our 

 country every Tree, Shrub, or Plant, which may be u*tul 

 in the various departments of national industry, as well as 

 those which serve to gratify our pleasures alone : and it re- 

 mains now to be tested, whether the success which shall at- 

 tend the very extensive importations already made, win w*i- 



