PREFACE. 
The Proprietors in tendering their new Catalogue with reduced prices, desire to 
state that their Fruit and Ornamental Trees, &c. are nearly all of large size and vig- 
orous growth, and superior to any before offered to the public. ‘The establishment 
contains at the present period more than a million of Trees and Plants, and the Pro- 
piietors are willing to enter into arrangements of the most liberal description both as 
to prices and credit with all such persons as desire large quantities of Trees, &c. and 
with those proprietors of Nurseries who wish to extend their collections, and such other 
persons as may wish to establish new Nurseries, they will make arrangements 
on terms which will allow ample time for advantageous reimbursement. Any persons 
who are desirous to act as Agents in towns where no agency at present exists, will 
Peery io communicate their views in regard therete. 
The 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 oniy, 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 
of asimilar 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, t 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 frem this establishment, is their 
arficular hardihood. From the proximity of the nurseries to the ocean on one side, 
as 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 causcs 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, im 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 
weli 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. 
