Library, U, S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. & 



August, 186S-48th Edition. 



PRINCE & CO. 



(Founded, 1732.) 



FLUSHING, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



CATALOGUE OF SMALL FRUITS, &C. 



All orders are labeled and packed in a superior manner. Strawberry 

 Plants can be packed so as to be sent safely at any season. Parcels can be 

 sent by Mail, if desired, at 16 cts.perlb. If purchasers do not specify, we 

 send by Express. No less than a dozen are sold of any variety, unless other- 

 wise stated in the Catalogue. Persons ordering will please specif y the Edition 

 of the Catalogue. Terms, Cash with the order, or collected by Express, on 

 delivery. " 



Our Catalogues of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Plaiits, 

 Grapes, Bulbous Boots, P atonies, Green House Plants, Seeds, &c, will be- 

 sent to applicants who inclose stamps. Also, the Wholesale Catalo ai u^ fi fty 

 Nurseries. ■«*—• * m m r ' 



The 250 varieties embraced in our entire collection of Strawberries, including the * 

 Newest Foreign Varieties, are fully described in communications from Wm. R. Prince, 

 in the Patent Office Report for 1861, and in various periodicals. Full descriptions of the 

 majority of them will also be found in our previous Strawberry Catalogues, and wo, 

 therefore, omit them here, except of the New Varieties. Our present collection has 

 been carefully selected from all that have been brought to notice in this country and in 

 Europe. The public taste has become so awakened to the appreciation of the sweet, 

 high flavored and perfumed varieties of the Strawberry, that such berries as the Wilson, 

 Austin, and the comparatively sour or insipid seedlings grown therefrom, will scarcely 

 be tolerated hereafter. The only seedlings exhibited the two past seasons, possessing 

 sweetness, high flavor and perfume, were grown by Prof. Huntsman, Mr. Heins and our- 

 selves. The majority of the others exhibited were seedlings of the Wilson and Austin, 

 and too acid. We offer a few of our New Seedlings, with descriptions, and we guarantee 

 every one of them to be at least equal to any other new seedlings that are offered. We 

 have above l,000,more under probation, to select from hereafter. Of the foljowing as- 

 sortment, 50 of the most splendid varieties; designated by an asterisk were origin- 

 ated in our own Nurseries, and selected from thousands of seedlings during the past 

 twenty years. Many varieties are now offered for sale for the first time. The American 

 Varieties possess the advantage of great hardihood and productiveness, and are suitable 

 for field culture. Hermaphrodite Varieties should be grown in rows or hills, but Pistil- 

 lates may be allowed to cover the entire ground. The latter will require one-tenth of 



