PREFACH. 
Te proprietors of the Old American Nursery, 
under the late firm of Bensamin Prince & Co. 
have agreed to alter the name of their firm, although 
the proprietors remain the same. ‘The name of the 
firm will now be Prince & Mitts. 
We cannot refrain, on the issuing of a new Cata- 
logue, from making a few observations. We feel 
truly thankful to our friends and customers for the 
patronage we have so long received, and continue 
to receive from them. To merit a continuance of 
their favours every effort shall be used. For years 
it has been our wish (and we have obtained it) to 
coliect the most valuable variety of European and 
American Trees and Shrubs: we have selected 
them from an immense variety of the most valuable 
kinds. It has never been our intention to enlarge 
our Catalogue by publishing a long list of names of 
"Trees, Shrubs, &c.- ; 
We are often asked, How do you tell one ‘Tree 
from another, so as to prevent a mistake in not — 
forwarding the wrong Tree, among such an im- 
mense number? You must often make a mistake? 
We answer, We never do. It is almost impossible. 
Our Nursery is divided into squares; each square 
into a certain number of rows; we keep as correct 
a book as any one in the mercantile line, in which 
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each row has its different variety. Wecommence, ~ 
for instance, on the west side, the first row, number 
