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REMARKS. 



TriE Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, contained in the annexed Catalogue, 

 can be packed in such manner as to be transported at any season of the 

 year; and all orders from a distance receive the same pointed attention 

 as if the persons desiring them were present to make their selections : 

 information will also be freely imparted with regard to the best means 

 of culture, &c. ; and the packages will be shipped to any port desig- 

 nated. Remittances can be made by draft on any city from Portland 

 to New-Orleans. In the transmission of plants to foreign countries, and 

 to the various ports of the Union, New- York possesses decided advan- 

 tages, regular packets being established with a great number of places, 

 both at home and abroad, and the general facilities of intercourse being 

 so enlarged and increasing. 



In offering to the public this Catalogue, the Proprietor cannot refrain 

 from calling the attention of amateurs to the numerous highly interesting 

 trees and plants which it contains, and many of which are found in no 

 other collection in our country. 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 so ardent 

 in obtaining them : but desirous that our country should at least hold 

 that rank in her botanic collections which she does in every other re- 

 spect, and influenced by that zeal which ever inspires the votaries of 

 Flora, he has incurred disbursements to an amount never hazarded by 

 any other individual in the Union. The prices of tbe plants newly 

 imported are regulated by their 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 with- 

 out immense disbursements, in making w^hich the Proprietor has greatly 

 to rely upon the patronage he may receive in the sale of its productions. 

 It is his desire to introduce every Tree, Shrub, or Plant, which may 

 be useful in the various departments of national industry, as well a? 

 those which serve to gratify our pleasures alone: and it remains now 

 to be tested, whether the success which shall attend the very extensive 

 importations already made, will warrant their continuance on the same 

 expensive scale. Comprising, as this garden does, an extent of more 

 than 40 acres, compactly filled; with the very extensive range of Green- 

 Houses, which contain above 20,000 plants in pots; and being surpassed 

 or equalled by few even of those which have received in foreign coun- 

 tries the patronage of royalty, the Proprietor's most anxious desire has 

 been to give to his establishment tbe character of a National Institu- 

 tion ; and animated by those feelings, which all seem concentrated in 

 the "pride of country? he relies on that country to aid in its advance- 

 ment. 



As many persons in the Union act as agents for different nursery esta- 

 blishments, it is particularly requested, that where orders are intended 

 for me, it be plainly specified ; and every invoice hereafter will have a 

 printed heading, and my signature, or that of one of my sonSf to prove it 

 genuine. I mention these cautions for good and conclusive reasons, as J 

 know I have been injured by deceptions. 



Orders from a distance can be transmitted through an agent, or direct 

 by mail or otherwise, and the various demands will be executed with 



