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propagated under glass. Our object is to arrange and conduct our business so that we 
shall, at all times, be able to offer to our patrons and the public, stock of all kinds of the 
best quality, and at the lowest market prices for such quality. 
The late severe winters have directed particular attention to the comparative hardiness 
of varieties, and we are now disposed to abandon the cultivation, at least in the Nursery, 
of nearly all those known as delicate or feeble growers, or peculiarly susceptible to injury 
in the winter. 
We are more than ever convinced, that new soils impart to fruit trees a vigor and 
hardiness of constitution which they cannot acquire on soils that have long been cropped ; 
hence the greater portion of our present fruit stock is on fresh, unexhausted lands. We 
also aim at forming all our fruit trees with low heads, believing that they are much 
less liable to injuries and diseases, and better able to resist the injurious effects of winds 
and storms, than tall trees with naked trunks. 
Our present large and complete stock offers great inducements to nurserymen and 
dealers, with whom we are prepared to deal on the most liberal and accomodating terms. 
Orders from amateurs, if but for half a dozen trees, will receive prompt and careful 
attention. : 
Being in direct communication with all the great railroad, steamboat and canal routes 
of the country, we possess every desirable facility for the transmission of packages to all 
parts of the United States and Canada. 
Our trade with California and Oregon has been already large and successful. With 
our present experience in packing for those regions, we are prepared to fill orders in the 
best possible manner. 
The Ornamental Department forms separate Catalogues, designated as Nos. 2 and 8, and 
a Wholesale List, is published annually or semi-annually for the trade. 
The attention of our correspondents is requested to the notice on the following page. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY, 
MOUNT HOPE NURSERIES, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
