AMERICAN TREE AND SHRUB SEEDS. 



I now offer these Seeds for sale. I propose to put complete assort- 

 ments of the seeds up in boxes, and to sell each box for Five Pounds. 

 There will be in the Avhole upwards of fifty different sorts of seeds of 

 Trees and Shrubs ; to which will be added about twenty sorts of Gar- 

 den Seeds. Amongst the tree seeds will be Walnuts^ Hiekory Nuts^ seeds 

 of the Sassafras, of the Birch, of the Plane, of the Red Cedar, of theAIaple, 

 of the Tulip, of the fFhite Elm, and amongst the shrubs, seeds of the Pinck- 

 neya (Georgia Bark), the Comus Florida, the Kalmia Latifolia, the Kalmia 

 Angmtifolia, the Spice tree, (laurus benzoin), the Magnolia Glauca, the 

 Magnolia Tripetula, the Magnolia Grandijiora. I have mentioned the above, 

 also, as part of the trees and shrubs. I shall put into each box, two pounds 

 of fin^ American Locust Seed. These two pounils contain about twenty-four 

 thousand seeds ; and, if the instructions which I have given in the Wood- 

 lands" be strictly adhered to, in the sowing of these seeds, almost every 

 seed will propuce a tree; and a tree too, fit to go into a plantation next au- 

 tumn. 



Amongst the garden seeds, there will be several sorts of Squash or Vegeta- 

 hie Marroiv seeds ; two sorts of Melon seeds, one at least of Cucumber seeds, 

 and a pint of three different sorts (a pint of each) of Kidney beans ; besides 

 which there will be three sorts of Onion seeds, and Asparagus seeds. 



I forgot to mention one sort of seed, a small quantity of which is worth 

 more than the whole five pounds ; namely, the SEED of the SASSAFRAS, 

 which no man in England ever possessed but myself. There is also the 

 Pinckneya or Georgia Bark, which never has been in England before, except 

 last year, when I sowed some of it, and reared a great number of plants. 



There is some seed of the finest Beets in, such as produce roots far supe- 

 rior to any that I ever saw in England. There are several varieties of the 

 early Indian corn ; some white and some yellow. 



Now, that part of these seeds which I shall sow, I shall make grow ; and 

 any other person may do the same if he will, by referring to the instruc- 

 tions contained in the "WOODLANDS." I shall, into each box of seeds, 

 put a catalogue of its contents ; and opposite the name of any tree or 

 shrub mentiontd in the Woodlands, 1 shall say, *' See Woodlands." For 

 instance, opposite to the seed of the BmcH, 1 shall say, See the Wood- 

 lands, paragraph 153." Then, when I come to that rare plant, the Pinck- 

 neya, or Georgia Bark, or to the Kalmia, I shall say also, " See the Wood- 

 lands, paragraph 153;" because all these seeds are to be sown and ma- 

 naged just in the same way as is directed for the Birch, the proceedings in 

 the sowing of which, are the most curious that can possibly be conceived. If 

 I had never done any thing in my life but rendered it an easy matter to raise 

 the Birch from seed, which neither Miller nor any other gardener ever ac- 

 complished, 1 should deserve the thanks of every body who is fond of trees. 

 Till 1 made my experiments, with regard to the tender seeds of the Birch, I 

 sowed not only that seed, but the seed of the Georgia Bark, the Kalmia, 

 the AzALiA, the Rhododendron, and many others, in vain. Having made 

 this discovery with regard to the Birch, there was no longer any difficulty 

 with regard to any of these, which, as experienced gardeners well know, are 

 never to be got from seed, but by mere luck. 



