PREFACE. 



The Proprietors in tendering their new Catalogue with 'reduced prices, desire 1© 

 state that their Fruit and Ornamental Trees, &c. are nearly all oi large size and vis- 

 orous groictli, and superior to any before offered to the public. The establishment 

 contains at the present period more than a million of Trees afid Plants, and the Pro- 

 prietors 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 

 07? terms which tcill eJ.loic ample time far advantageous reirnhurscmcnt. Anv persons 

 ■who are desirous to act as Agents in towns where no agency at present exists, will 

 please communicate their views in regard thereto. 



The fruit trees in the catalogue are either grafted or inoculated, 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 differeni 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 only, pay 

 no attention to the size, and vigour of the trees, and consequently sacriiice 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 

 w^orks of a similar character, in which thev 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 fruit, 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 ha; 

 not been able to guard against it. 



One great advantage possessed by ths trees sent from this establishment, is thei: 

 particular hardihood. From the proximity of the nurseries to the ocean on one side, 

 and 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 favoured regions, and trees thus hardened by nature are also found to 

 succeed best in our southern states. It is doubtless to these causes that is to be at- 

 tributed the general success which has attended the trees sent from this establisii- 

 ment, even when transmitted to Nova Scotia, the Canadas, &c. and the winter of 

 1831-2, incontestably proved their superior hardihood, thev having withstood the 

 severity of that season uninjured, while immense numbers of trees elsewhere in the 

 middle, and in the eastern states, v.-ere destroyed thereby. 



Specimen trees of everv varietv 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, in conse- 

 quence of their recent introduction are «f less size. Many other varieties will be an- 

 nounced hereafter in a Supplementary Catalogue, additional time being necessary as 

 well for their propagation, as for judicious investigations. New fruits are not added 

 to the collection, merely, because their names ditter, but a selection is made of those 

 onlv, 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 Poraological Manual, published by the proprietors, contain* 

 descriptions of near 800 varieties of the different fruits. 



