. Annual descriptive catalogue of seeds. Nursery stock New York (State) New York Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Nursery stock; Vegetables; Flowers; Gardening; Fruit. HE PROPRIETOR, having devoted many years to horticulture in its several departments, feels confident in his ability to select from the vast and confusing list of seeds such species and va- rieties only as are really worthy of cultivation, to the exclusion of all the various sorts that are not adapted to our climate, but which are too
. Annual descriptive catalogue of seeds. Nursery stock New York (State) New York Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Nursery stock; Vegetables; Flowers; Gardening; Fruit. HE PROPRIETOR, having devoted many years to horticulture in its several departments, feels confident in his ability to select from the vast and confusing list of seeds such species and va- rieties only as are really worthy of cultivation, to the exclusion of all the various sorts that are not adapted to our climate, but which are too frequently recommended and sold, to the serious loss and disappointment of planters. As the profession has always been pursued with a view to a permanent business, great care is taken to preserve an unsullied reputation, by having supplies of all the leading kinds of seeds raised annually by careful growers, from roots or seeds selected by the proprietor. Such seeds as are not suc- cessfully grown in our climate are imported from the most reliable seedsmen in Europe. The purity and germinating qualities of all important seeds are tested each year, under the proprietor's personal supervision. The observance of such a system may be considered as a guarantee that no seeds will be offered except such as are known to possess the most essential good qualities for general purposes. To aid the amateur and others in making selections, some of the leading and most desirable kinds are marked with an asterisk, thus (*). The proprietor can here only enumerate the leading articles in his col- lection ; and from a conviction that the seedsman's fair reputation is often unjustly defamed through failure of seeds, he would with brevity state some of the causes : First—That some cultivators, through ignorance or forgetfulness of the fact that the products of a garden are natives of various soils and climates, and require peculiar management, sow their seeds at an improper season. To aid such,
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