NEW, IR, ALEE IE J±i<riD BEAUTIFUL 
Grown and For Sale at his ( 
Vol. 1. 
RICHMOND 
Our Aim and ubject. 
APRIL, 
Wit h this Numrer we commence the Quarterly Publication of a list of Plants, Shrubs, 
Roses, V inks, Ornamental Trees, Bulbs &o. that it has been our grind fortune to collect du- 
ring the past few years of our commercial Green-house business and as our collection is so 
very complete in some of the specialties, we wish those interested in collecting- and growing 
ehoice plants to avail themselves of our success as collectors, by ordering from us such plants 
as they may desire to add to their collection. Many of these varieties are old and very scarce 
but they are the original or Type species from which so many of our choice Green House and 
Garden Hybrids originated, consequently no collection is complete without them. 
We are anxious to still further increase our list of choice Plants and would l.e pleased to 
Exchange plants from these lists at their Commercial value for some of the old but rare sorts 
not in our collection, and would be obliged to any of our friends who have choice varieties of 
plants not enumerated in these lists to correspond with us in order that we may obtain from 
them either by purchase or exchange any of the desirable plants they may have, stating in as 
explicit terms as possible the variety, size and price of each : however we do not care to add 
to our stock of unnamed plants unless it is something very choice or curious, tor the 
trouble of obtaining names is often more than the plant is worth. 
The names here given are those we received with the plants principally from First Class 
Commercial Houses and have no doubt that most of them are correct, particularly as we se- 
lect plants from the most reliable Dealers and often order plants of the same name from sev- 
eral differant establishments if any doubt arises as to the correctness of the names. In ad- 
dition to our care in purchasing we have had a large portion of the names corrected by some 
of the best Authority iu the country, but with all our care and trouble we can scarcely expect 
always to be correct when Scientific Botanist still wrangle over some of the numerous plants 
described and named by different authors, each one giving a distinct name. Again it is almost 
impossible to obtain access to some of the valuable, rare old authorities especially on exotic 
plants as the description are usualy published in fragments from year to year in the Trans- 
actions of some of the Scientific Societies and never very generally distributed except 
to kindred societies and the few Scientific Botanist who have won a reputation by their 
research and discoveries. Although nearly all the plants grown in greenhouses are exotics 
the change from their native condition, dWarfs their growth, dims the color of both foliage 
and flower, and of cource changes the whole character from the original description so that 
the Libraries of choice books would usually be of very limited value in their study, 
We propose to issue the INDEX quarterly y/z, January. April, July and October, 
and send it to all our customers Iree, but the subscription price to all others will be 50 cents 
a year which is so cheap that of cource we do not expect to rea.lise any profit from its publi- 
cation, but we consider it the best means, however imperfect of communicating with our cus- 
tomers by gi ving notes and hints on the growth and culture of the different class of plants we 
offer for sale, also notices of new plants being introduced both in America and Europe, and 
any other miscellaneous Botanical information of general interest. We hope our Scientific and 
Literary friends will remember that this is purely a commercial Enterprise and not criticise 
with too keen an eye our literary efforts, 
