PREFACE 



This establishment being but eight miles from the city of New-York, with a steam- 

 boat and stages making several nips daily between the two places, offers every ad- 

 vantage that would be possessed by a city location ; and an cffice aud agency is also 

 esiab ished in the city 10 expedite the business. 



The Proprietors in tendering their new Catalogue with reduced prices, desire to 

 State that their Fruit and Ornamental Trees, &c. are near y all of large size and 

 vigorous growth,. '1 he establishment contains at the present period more than a 

 million of Trees and Plants, and the Proprietors are willing to enter into liberal 

 arrangements, both as to prices ai d credit, with a 1 such persons as desire large quan- 

 tities of Trees, &c. and to tho e proprietors of Nurseries who wish to extend their 

 collections, and such other persons as may wish to es ablish new Nurseries, they 

 will ma!<e liber 1 discounts from the usual prices. Any persons who are desirous to 

 act ;»s Agents in towis 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 propagated 

 from such European and American kinds as have acquired a well merited ctltbrity, 

 the whole collection of which has recently undergone a mo^t careful revision, and 

 the selections have been made with great care and attention. Every pi ecaution is 

 taken which is necessary to preserve the different 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 unfrequenily, after the toil and expei se of yeais, fn d them, when 

 they arrive at bearing, ai soiutely worthless. Others who regard the price only, pay 

 no attention to the size and vigor of the trees, and consequently sacrifice many years 

 uselessly before their orchards come into bearing. The strongest pi oofs the Proprie- 

 tors can give the i ubhc of their anxiety to guard against misct nception are the pre- 

 cise descripii >us contained in the Trea ises recently published, ai d other works of a 

 similar character, in which rhey 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 infa libi ity, but they do constantly aim at t! at point, and therefore 

 if an inadvertent error occasionally arise, it is because their unwearied scrutiny has 

 not been able to guad against it. 



One great advantag possessed by the trees sent from this establishment, is their 

 par i' ular hardi! ood From ihe proximity of tie nurseries to :he ocean en one side, 

 and to the East River on the other, with a free and open cxi csure 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 coumry, they acquire a degree of har- 

 dihood which renders them extremely eligil le for colder latitudes, and to support the 

 risor of less favored regions, and trees thus hardened by nature are also found to 

 eucce d best in our southern s'ates. It is doubtless to these cau-es that is to be at- 

 tributed the general success which has attended the trees so t fi cm this establish- 

 ment, < ven when transmitted to Nova Scotia, the Cana^as, &c. and the winter of 

 1831-2 incontest3b]y proved th^ir superior hardihood, they having withstood the seve- 

 rity of that season uninjured, while immense m mdtrs ol trees elsewhere in the middle 

 and in the eastern states, were destroyed thereby. 



S| ecimeti trees of every variety of fruit comprised m this catalogue, are now stand- 

 ing in the exp; rimental orchards of the estahhsl ment, and all the kinds are ready for 

 sale- Th<- stock of some of the newest sorts, however, is limited, and the trees, in 

 con-tqucure of their recent introduction are of less size. Many other varieties will 

 be a noin ctd hereafter in a Supplementary Catalogue, additional time being neces- 

 sary as well for their propagation, as for jiu.icious ii vestigations. New fruits are not 

 added to the cnll ction, merely, because <heir names differ, but a selection is made of 

 those on y, which merit and have received the encomiums of persons acquainted with 

 the subject. 



A huge nutnb-r of the apples are the same as described by Mr. Coxe, and the 

 Treatise on Fruits or Pcmological Manual, contains descriptions of near 600 va- 

 rieties of the difle ent fruits. 



It scf-ms almost superfluous to remark, tliot the trees and plants in this catalouge 

 no" parti, ularly designated as under, are haidy. 



Every tr e when sent forth from the gaiden, is duly labelled; and from' fifteen to 

 thirty tn es are usually packed in each matted bundle, and where boxes are preferable, 

 from 50 to 100 Trees and Shrubs can be packed in each. 



Where trees are requested for exportation, they are carefully packed in matts, 



