iNtRODaGTORY 
To our 1897 NOVELTY CA TALOGUE. 
IN PRESENTING this, our Novelty Catalogue, we wish to call attention to the variety 
and extent of our stock, as well as to its superior condition. We have added to our 
collection very many new and valuable plants of recent discovery and introduction, 
and offer only such new plants as have been tried with satiofactoi'y results, and which we can safely 
recommend to our clients. 
OUR ADVANTAGES. 
In addition to our large and well known Rose Hill Nurseries, at New Rochelle, N. Y., we are operat- 
ing extensive Tropical Nurseries on our plantations in the West Indies, and are thus enabled to grow 
rapidly and to perfection, under the most favorable circumstances, many things which are slow and 
difficult of culture in North America. It is here that we raise the Palms and other decorative 
plants now so largely used in the best private dwellings to bring the charm of the tropics to our 
homes, as well as for the adornment of club houses, hotels and places of amusement on all festive 
occasions. No other spot in the world is so well adapted for the production of these plants in full 
beauty and vigor. The transportation facilities are now such that we can bring these plants to New 
Yorl£ in perfect order. The fine shape, coloring and general good condition of such stocli is always 
a subject of remark, and, being grown in so favorable a location, enables them to stand our climatic 
changes much better than if brought from the extreme tropics. 
Our home establishment, the Rose Hill Nurseries, at New Rochelle, N. T., is very extensive 
and well arranged. It includes a very large area of glass houses of the most approved modern con- 
struction, together with aquatic ponds and well located grounds for the growth of outdoor orna- 
mental stock of every variety under favorable conditions. 
Our direct connections with the most prominent botanical and commercial establishments of 
Europe, the East Indies, Australia and South America, are also a great advantage in procuring and 
exchanging rare and valuable stock; wherefore, it may be readily understood that we are in an ex- 
ceptionally favorable way of meeting all demands for new, rare and valuaiile plants at the most 
reasonaljle prices. 
We do not cater to a cheap trade, 
therefore we offer and send out only first- 
class, strong plants, which will give immedi- 
ate results, always carrying out our motto : 
"GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY." 
We ask especial attention to our de- 
partment of Landscape Architecture, in which 
we are prepared to undertake work of any 
magnitude, and to our superior facilities for 
Decorative Work in plants and flowers. With 
nearly thirty (30) years of experience in sup- 
plying a critical metropolitan clientage, we are 
justified, we think, in claiming special ability 
to meet any demands. 
A VISIT SOLICITED. 
We invite personal inspection of the Kose Hm; Nurseries— New Power House and Machine Shop, 
stock contained in our home Nurseries at New 
Rochelle. Hero are constantly to be seen many interesting sights not common to ordinary nurseries — rare 
Orchids and tropical plants in bloom, grand specimen Palms and Cycads, a profusion of the finest Roses, fine 
Aquatic Plants, etc. We are glad to see visitors any day except Sunday, and the Rose Hill Nur- 
series are easy of access from New York. Trains on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- 
road, leaving the Grand Central depot (Forty-second street) every hour, also by the Suburban R. R. 
