NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



To Our Patrons. 



In presenting the Sixteenth Edition of our Seed Catalogue and Flower and 

 Kitchen-Garden Directory, we return thanks to our friends for their generous 

 patronage and recommendations for the past years, and assure them that every 

 effort will be made to merit a continuance of their favors. 



We would invite the attention of amateurs and florists to our choice collection of 



French and German Asters, Carnation and Picotee Pinks, Calceola- 

 rias, Cinerarias, German Stocks, Cockscombs, Double Holly- 

 hocks, Camellia and Rose-flowered Balsams, Gloxinias, 

 Mimulus, Verbenas, Pelargoniums, English Pansies, 

 Chinese Primroses, Sweet Williams, &c, 



received direct from the growers, by which we are enabled to insure to purchasers 

 genuine seeds of the best sorts in cultivation, raised from prize-flowers only. 



We would also invite attention to our choice collections of trench and 

 German flower-seeds, containing the most beautiful varieties of each species, saved 

 with the greatest care, the quality of which cannot be excelled. 



The Vegetable-seed Department will be found complete, and comprises all that 

 is essential in variety for the various requirements of the kitchen or market 

 garden. 



We would here impress upon our agricultural friends the importance of a more 

 extended cultivation of the Mangel Wurtzel, Ruta Baga, Parsnip, Carrot, &c, 

 as winter feed for cattle, sheep, &c. 



Numerous novelties of the highest merit, both of flower and vegetable seeds, 

 have been added, with many new and beautiful illustrations, particularly of the 

 leading varieties of vegetables, for which we are indebted to Messrs. J. E. Tilton 

 & Co., Boston, publishers of " The Field and Garden Vegetables of America," by 

 Fearing Burr, jun., Esq., the most useful work on vegetables published, and from 

 which the illustrations are taken. 



We earnestly request our correspondents to be particular and give their nanus, 

 post-office address, county, and State in full, distinctly written. We are in daily re- 

 ceipt of orders deficient in some one of these important requisites, often causing 

 a delay of weeks in the execution of their orders, greatly to their inconvenience, 

 as well as our own.' 



enumerated on page 77 ; also, to our superior varieties of 



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