We present this new Descriptive Catalogue to the Wovld, which is probably the last one 

 rvhich will ever be prepared by the present author ("Wm. E. i'RixcE), as our time is now mainly 

 devoted to an object of far more prominent importance to humanity — TJie Analyse!^ of our 

 Atncru-an 2Iedical Flora ! We claim for this Catalogue that the different A'arieties are described 

 with critical accurocy and impartiality, and that it presents to the strawberry-grower a perfectly 

 reliable guide. V\"e also anuovmce 'that in this immense CollectioD, there is not one c-ixed 

 Ded, nor one dubious plant, the whole having long coiitinued under our personal supervision, 

 and that we expressly guarantee the accuracy of every variety transmitted from our Gardens. 



We are influenced m making these comments, by several false statements mf^de by Mr. 

 J. Enox, e:xpressly to delude the public. He says : Vfe (J. Xnox) can supply all or nearly 

 all of the kinds found in the different Nursery Catalogues, but many of them we do not think 

 worth while to enumerate." This aslerilou is utterly untrne. He has but four varieties that 

 we deem worthy of general cultiu-e, and none of above ] SO Special Varieties of the highest 

 merit described in this Catalogue ; but he fills up two pages by a list of names of 70 varieties, 

 comprising the trash which have been exploded by all intelligent cultivators for many years 

 past. This tact he inadvertently admits, when he says in another place : " We have on our 

 grounds over 100 varieties, many of which are worthless, or only valuable in keeping up a 

 large collection." He wares the public against "buying the same variety under different 

 names," when he, above all others, has been guilty of committing such errors — witness his 

 selling Elver's Eliza for the British Queen for laany years and even now, as well as publishing 

 Lennig's White under the two additional names of "Albion White" and "White Pineapple," 

 the Crimson Cone and Scotch Eunner as- distinct varieties; and even the Jucunda, an English 

 variety, he concealed the true name of, until our Description of it rendered further false naming 

 Oi it an impossibility. We could show up a further mass of confusion, inexcusable ignorance, 

 and errors, by which the public have been duped and misled for years, yet we purposely refrain, 

 but we feel impelled to say thus much, as this man constantly endeavors to conceal his own 

 deficiencies by depreciating the labors of others. Verhum Sap. 



Of the ISO varieties embraced in our present Collection, all the older varieties have been 

 t\i\W described in elaborate Articles on the Fragaria Family, communicated by Wm. R. Prince, 

 and published in the Eeports of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and in the 

 Transactions of the American Institute. It is, therefore, deemed only necessary here to 

 describe fully the XeW and Eecent Varieties. It will be realized at once that these comprise 

 many of the most estimable varieties which are now offered for the first time, and are not at 

 uresent obtainable from any other source. The public taste is now becoming rapidly awakened 

 to the appreciation of the sweet, high -jlavored and perfumed varieties of the Strawberry, and 

 such miserably sour and flavorless trash as the Downer, Cutter, Ellsworth, Wilson, Ag^'iculturist, 

 Monitor, Ida, &c., will not be tolerated by amateurs who are familiar with good fruit, although 

 tiioymay be palmed upon the ignorant. We now offer the choicest varieties that the co-laborers 

 of the world have produced, and among these there are 40 very estimable varieties originated 

 t)y ourselves, which are distinguished by an asterisk (*)and which we have selected from many 

 thousands of hybridized Seedlings. We desire to also announce, that we have above 2,000 

 distinct Seedlings, which are to be fruited for the first time the ensuing year, whose highly 

 pron;i.-<ing appearance has been most favorably commented on by Prof. Himtsman, our neighbor, 

 .«o well known for his Fragarian discriminations. Several now announced have white fiesh, and 

 they are all greatly superior to the mass of Xew Seedlings which are annually spawned upon the 

 public, whose destiny is to be cast aside after being once tested; It has become highly necessar} 

 that a proper discrimination should be made, by a judicious selection of varieties best suite.; 

 to field culture for market. In one district of New Jersey, deemed highly favorable for tht 

 Lnrawberry culture, the crop of 1865 is said to have been $30,000, which in 1S6G dwindled u 

 *3,000. What was the cause of this great failure? Nothing can account for it except thi 

 :njudiciou3 selection of the plants. It is a scientific fact, based on normal physical structure 

 lliat the Pistillate, or Female yarieties of any species of the Strawberry, will produce a crop o 

 ruit fifty per cent, greater than the Hermaphi-odites can possibly produce. It is also a normal 



