WM. \l PRINCE & CO. 



FLUSHING, NEAK NEW YORK. 



ANNOUNCEMENT AND GENERAL REMARKS. 



The Senior Proprietor, Wm. R. Prince, having devoted more than half a century to Pomologi- 

 cal and Horticultural pursuits, and desiring now to withdraw from all active business, has trans- 

 ferred the control of the Nurseries to his son, William Prince, who, with his associates, will con- 

 duct the establishment in its future operations. W. R. P. will, however, give his general supervision 

 to some of the most prominent objects. 



We need scarcely to announce that our Catalogues are not made up from books only, but that 

 we possess in quantity, every article comprised in them. Many highly 'estimable Xew Varieties 

 have been added to the present Catalogue, and we shall furnish descriptions of the New Fruits for 

 the next edition of " Downing' s Fruit Trees ; " and we refer to his present and future editions for 

 the identity of the Fruits in our collection. An additional plot of 40 acres of excellent Farm land, 

 very favorably situated, has been added to the Nurseries, on which are now growing several hund- 

 red thousand trees, in addition to our previous extensive stock. 



This and the other Nurseries are all on lands that may be termed new soil (in regard to Tree 

 culture), no trees having been previously grown on them ; as the building innovations have pressed 

 upon our path so rapidly that the lands formerly occupied by our Nurseries are now populous 

 streets, studded with dwellings. The natural strength and fertility of the soil of this locality is 

 such, that it insures a most healthy and vigorous growth to the trees, which seem to become hard- 

 ened and confirmed as they progress, and is devoid of that rank, stimulated, and unnatural 

 exuberance which trees so generally exhibit when reared on lands that have never been subjected 

 to previous culture. The Trees thus cultivated, after making at first a rapid development, are so 

 sensitive to cold, that the winter easily affects them, and they gradually pine away till they 

 { become feeble and unproductive. 



The climate of Long Island being subject at all times to the boisterous winds of the Ocean and 

 the Sound, seems to be particularly favorable to perfecting the hardihood of Trees. The vacilla- 

 tions of alternate cold and mild periods during the winter, accompanied by the frequent freezings 

 and thawings to which trees are here subject throughout all stages, prepares them for the endur- 

 ance of the utmost degree of cold and rigor incident to the most northern latitude; it being found 

 that trees, like men, become much more hardened in a changeable climate than in one regularly 

 cold where the constitution is not subjected to trials. 



It is doubtless from this cause that the Long Island Trees with which New England has been 

 generally supplied, and also those which have been sent to the coolest regions of the West, have been 

 found to better withstand the severest winters, than those which have been obtained from other 

 localities. Indeed, it can be readily realized that trees so robust and hardy, and yet so vigorous, 

 must possess a great superiority over those grown in localities where the mercury sinks each year 

 to 10° and 20° below zero during a very prolonged winter, thus retaining the trees in a frozen, 

 torpid and death-like state for many months, freezing and bursting the inner vessels, affecting the 

 sap, and probably causing sap-blight, and weakening them to such a degree that they can never 

 regain their original health and strength. Some lessons may be derived from the fatal experience 

 X of the three past winters at the West, to which may be superadded the inconsiderate use by many 

 nurseries of unsuitable stocks for budding and grafting, and especially of the tender Mazzard stock 

 for Cherries, instead of the hardy Mahaleb, the latter alone being suited to the North and West. 

 No Trees grown here are ever winter-killed ; and the pear-blight, so destructive in the western 

 part of this State, is unknown here. 



Our large General Catalogues, which have been distributed throughout the Union, comprise 

 every estimable variety of Fruit ripening throughout the year, and especially such as have been 

 recommended by the different Pomological Conventions, and embrace Trees of the usual sizes for 

 planting in Orchards and Gardens. All are in the most healthy and vigorous state, and will be 

 supplied at the rates named in the present Catalogue ; and it may be taken as a rule that we will 

 at all times sell as low, and many articles lower than they can be obtained elsewhere, of equal size 

 and quality. Hie Extra-Large sized Trees, which are in a bearing state, have required many years 

 to bring them to their present size, and are such as can seldom be obtained elsewhere, and are worthy 

 of the special attention of those who desire Fruit Trees for immediate bearing, whereby many years 

 are gained in the planting of Orchards and Gardens. The Extra-Large sized Ornamental Trees and 

 Shrubbery, including the^Large sized Evergreens, are worthy the particular attention of those who 

 desire to promptly embellish their Lawns, Avenues, and other Grounds, and many of them are 



