F. WEINBERG, WOObsiDE, L. I. 
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At all stages of growth, they attract attention and interest, and the beauty 
of blossom of very many varieties is unsurpassed. 
Contrary to the general belief many, one may almost say the majority, 
are profuse and regular, while some are even persistent bloomers. 
To the skilled horticulturist they offer infinite possibilities of new and 
valuable varieties in the readiness with which they submit to grafting and 
cross fertilizations, while to the student they present a broad and almost un- 
touched field of exploration and research in which^ many species, unknown to 
science, must yet remain to be discovered. 
Accuracy of Description in the catalogue O'f plants is of vital importance 
alike to the amateur or student, and quite as much so to the fancier who finds 
his chief delight in the rarity of the specimens or the completeness of his 
collections. — It has been my aim to list no varieties whose description and name 
cannot be absolutely relied upon, or where any doubt may exist, to give, pos- 
sible or actual, customers the benefit of that doubt and allow them to use 
their own judgment of the desirability of the plant. 
My plants have won first prizes, gold and silver medals, also numerous 
certificates of merit and diplomas, wherever shown. 
In conclusion, I wish to thank the many generous patrons who have 
enabled me to advance, what was begun as a study in pastime, into the field 
of business, to an extent, that has allowed me toi continue, what has proved 
to be a most enticing study and one which will unquestionably prove as in- 
teresting to any lover of the beauties of the floiral world, who may perhaps be 
attracted to it, by this, or some like modest catalogue or manual. 
F. WEINBERG, 
Second Street and Charlotte Ave., 
W00D31DE, L. 1. , 
Extract from ''American Gardening,'' May 22, 1901, and Annual Re- 
ports of the ''Horticultural Society" of New York, May, 1900 to May, 1902: 
May 12-13, 1901 — first Annual Exhibition the New 
York Botanical Garden, also staging a goodly number; from the latter source 
also came a collection of flowering trees and shrubs and a display of cacti and 
succulent plants ocupying about one hundred and fifty square feet of bench 
space. But it was to Mr. F. Weinberg of Woodside, L. L, that the first 
PRIZE and CHIEF honors for cacti and succulents were awarded. He had a 
similarly large display, some hundreds of plants, and no duplicates in the lot 
— a remarkable collection and in the best of conditio^n.. 
