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? Aii^ynst, 1^03-4tOtli Edition. 



PRINCE & CO. 



(Founded, l>3a.) 



FLUSHING, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



CATALOGUE Ol^ 



iilltt if l&WlilMlS* 



SMALL FRUITS, &c. 



g^PERSONS RKQUmiNG GENfiRAL INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT CAN ADDRESS 

 THEIR APPLICATIONS TO Wm. R. PrINCB, WHO HAS LONG MADE THE CULTURE 



OF THE Strawberry a specific object of his attention. 



should he 



J8^ All orcjgc. 



labeled and pcwiced in a superior maimer. 



direct hy mail. Ihe Plants, &c., are all 

 Straicherry Plants can he packed 

 so as to he sent safeUi at any season. The hest periods for planting, are 

 March and April, atiMMugust Wth to November. We puddle roots, and do 

 not loose one per cent. Parcels can he sent by Mail, if desired, at 8 cents per 

 lb. If purchasers do not specify, we send hy Mail or Express. No less than 

 a dozen are sold of any variety, unless otherwise stated in the Catalogue. 

 Persons ordering will please specify the Edition of the Catalogue. Terms, 

 Cash with the order, or collected hy Express, on delivery. 



J8@= Our Catalogues of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Slirubs, Plants, 

 Grapes, Bulbous Boots, P'Xonies, Green House Plants, Seeds, &c., will be 

 sent to applicants who enclose stamps. Also, the Wholesale Catalogue for 

 Nurseries. 



The 250 varieties embraced in our entire collection of Strawherrie.^, 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. Another elaborate ar- 

 tide on the Fragaria Family will be found in 'the Transactions of the American Pomolo- 

 gical Society, for 1862 ; and one more comprehensive will be found in the forthcoming 

 Transactions of the American Institute. We therefore, deem it only necessary here to 

 describe the New Varieties. The public taste has become so awakened to the apprecia- 

 tion of the sweet, high-flavored and perfumed varieties of the Strawberry, that such berries 

 as the Wilson, Downer, Austin, &c., will not be tolerated by persons familiar with good 

 fruit; and the new varieties presented to us, during the past three yeais, as Seed- 

 lings from the Wilson, veiy large, but sour and insipid, ought to satisfy every amateur, 



