(1856) special select catalogue of extra large-sized fruit trees in a bearing state

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SPECIAL SELECT CATALOGUEOF

IN A BEARING STATE,AND OFEXTRA LARGE ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS,

INCLUDINGLAKQK EVERaKEENS,SUITABLE FOR IMMEDIATE EMBELLISHMENT.LINN^AN BOTANIC GARDEN AND NURSERIES,

IV M. R. PRIi^CE & CO.,FLUSHING, NEAR NEW YORK.

41st Edition.

REMARKS.These Extra Large-sized Trees are such as can seldom be ob-

tained elsewhere at any price. The most vigorous and well-grownTrees are selected in every case, whereby several years' time aregained in the planting of Orchards and Gardens, and in the adorn-ing of pleasure grounds. Where new residences are being erected,and the grounds require to be promptly beautified and made use-ful, these large and fine trees will be of the greatest importance.They are resold by Dealers who obtain them of us, at an advanceof 100 to 200 per cent.OUR DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, No. I, comprises Fruitand Ornamental Trees and Shrubs of the usual sizes, at lowrates.

CATALOGUES, which are sent to purchasers of trees, and tothose desirous to purchase, who inclose stamps. They are desiredto sendfor such only as they actually reqitire. l^o. 1, Fruit and Or-namental Trees, Shrubs, and Plants ; and, No. 2, Roses, Dahlias,Bulbous, and Herbaceous Flowering Plants,


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2 WM. K. PKINCE & CO/Sand Shrub Seeds,


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SELECT SPECIAL CATALOGUE. 3Each $ c. to $ c.Persimons, 6 to 8 feet, .... 1 00Plums, Standards, largest size, . . . i so

Plums, do 5 years, ... 1 25Plums, do 4 years, .... 1 00Quinces, Orange, Pear, and Portugal, largest size, 1 00Walnuts, Black, and Butternuts, largest size, . 1 00EXTRA LARGE ORNAMENTAL TREES,SUITABLE FOE IMMEDIATE EMBELLISHMENT.

Abele, Snowy or Silver leaved, 14 to 18 feet.Acacia, or Honey Locust, 9 to 12 feet,Ailanthns, 12 to' 16 feet, ....Alder, European, 12 to 15 feet,Aralia Japoaica, showy, peculiar, and rare, 8 to 11

feet, ....AsU, Earopean, 10 to 15 feet,Ash, White Fringed, beautiful and rare, 6 to 10 feet.Ash, Weeping, Green and Golden, large.Ash, AtroTirens, dark-green foliage, large,Angelica, or Prickly Ash, large,Beech, American, dark foliage, 8 to 10 feet,Beech, Purple leaved, ....Beech, Weeping, Green, and Purple,Bird Cherry, European, beautiful, 7' to 10 feet,Catalpa, 10 to 15 feet, ....Cherry, Weeping, .....Chestnut, American, large size,Chestnut, French, large fruit, Y to 10 feet, .ChestQut, do 12 to 14 feet, .Cypress, American, 6 to lo feet.Elm, European, 3 varieties, 10 to 18 feet.Elm, American, 10 to 16 feet.Hawthorn, English, beautiful, 7 to 12 feet.Horse Chestnut, White Flowering, 8 to 10 feet.Horse Chestnut, Green Flowering, 8 feet, .Horse Chestnut, Ohio Buckeye, 8 to 10 feet, .Judas Tree, beautiful, 6 to 9 feet,Judas Tree, Californian, crimson flowers, 8 feet,Judas Tree, White Flowering, large,Eoelreuteria, Japan, singular flowers, 7 to 10 feet,Laburnum, or Golden Chain, 6 to 12 feet,Labnrnnm, Weeping, large,Larch, European, 10 to IS feet,Larch, do 8 feet, ....Larch, Weeping, ingrafted, ....Linden, European, 10 to 20 feet, .Linden, Red Twigged, 9 to 16 feet, .Linden, Macrophylla, or Umbrella Leaved, largest

foliage, 8 to 20 feet,Linden, Silvery leaved, 6i to 12 feet.

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WM. R. PRINCE & 00. SMagnolia acnoiiuata, 6 to 10 feet,Magnolia Anricnlata, 6 to 9 feet,Magnolia Glanea, 5 to 10 feet,Magnolia Grandiflora. (See Evergreens.)Magnolia Macropliylla, 4 to 6 feet,Magnolia do 7 to 12 feet,Magnolia Maxima, 6 to 10 feet,Magnolia Tripetata, 6 to 14 feet, .Maple, SilYcr leaved, 12 to 16 feet, .Maple, Norway, 9 to 14 feet,Blaple, Scarlet, 9 to 10 feet, .Maple, Sngar, 10 to 14 feet.Maple, Englisli Sycamore, 9 to 13 feet,Mountain Ash, European, 10 to 15 feet.Oak, several species, 7 to 9 feet,Oak, Laurel leaved, beautiful and rare, large,Ornus, White flowering, beautiful, 6 to 10 feet,Osage Orange, 5 to 6 feet, busby,Paulownia laiperialis, 8 to 12 feet,Planetree, or IJnttonwood, large size,Salisburia adiaiitifolia, 5 to 10 feet, .Sophora Japouica, standard size,Sophora, Weeping, doSycaaicre, European, 9 to 13 feet,Tnlip Tree, 10 to 20 feet.White Fringe Tree, 6 to 10 feet, .Willow, Weeping, 10 to 14 feet,

d^ach $ c. to $ c.


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SELECT SPECIAL CATALOGUE.Each $L;^erstr^mla, or Crape Myrtle, 3 to 4 feet,

Lilac, Chinese, and others, large,Magnolia Alexander!, striped crimson and white, 4 feet.Magnolia Conspicna, Chinese White Chandelier, very

splendid, and early flowering, 8 to 10feet, . . . , .Magnolia Conspicna, 5 to 6 feet,The above Magnolia Conspicuas are grown

from seed, Y years old, well branched, veryvigorous, and perfectly hardy, and are splen-did specimens. They are the only ones ofthis character ever offered for sale, thoseusually sold being grafted and weakly.

Magnolia Gracilis, Japan Deep Pnrple, full branched,4 to 1 feet, ....

Magnolia Parpnrea, Chinese Pnrple, very bushy andfull branched, 4 to 7 feet,

Magnolia Speciosa, striped pink and white, 5 to 9 feet.Magnolia Sonlangiana, striped crimson and white, 5 to

10 feet, . .Pnrple Fringe Tree, 5 to 1 feet,Pyrns Japonica, Scarlet, large,Roses, Tree or Standard, perpetual flowering varie-

ties, large size, . , . .Roses, Princess Adelaide Moss, and others, 4 to 5 feet,Snowball, large, .....Strawberry Tree, Enropcan, Scarlet Berried, 6 to 10

feet, . . . , .Strawberry Tree, European, Pink Berried, 6 to 9 feet,Strawberry Tree, Eni'opean, White Berried, large,Strawberry Tree, American Crimson Berried, large,Syringa, several vai-ieties, large.Tree Pseony, splendid varieties, 4 to 6 years old, .Xylostenm. See Upright Honeysuckle.

c. to $ c1 50

50 155 00

8 00 10 005 00 6 00

4 00 004 00


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6 WM. K. PRINCE & CO.'SEXTRA LARGE EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS.

SUITABLE TO IMPART IMMEDIATE ORNAMENT.The prices of Evergreens, as stated in Catalogues,

form no criterion as regards cheapness, asTrees of the same height often differ one-halfin yalue. Those grown from seed in a Nursery,and repeatedly transplanted, attain a de-gree of vigor, beauty and hardihood, that it isimpossible for those to acquire "which are ob-tained from the forests.

Abies, Sprnce.Abies, Balsam Fir, or Balm of Gilead, 4 to 6 feet,Abies, Balsam Fir, 8 to 14 feet,Abies, Earopcan Silver Fir, 4: to 1 feet,Abies, Hemlock Sprnce, 4 to 8 feet,Abies, Himalaya Sprnce, 2 to 4 feet,Abies, Xorway Sprnce, S to 5 feet, .Abies, Norway Sprnce, 6^ to 16 feet, .Abies, Red Spruce, 3 to 4 feet,Abies, Wiiite American Sprnce, 3 to 8 feet,Abies, White European Spruce, 4 to 8 feet.Arbor Vitse, American, full branched, very bushy,

well set, 5 feet,Arbor Vitse, 6 feet,....Arbor Vitse, 8 to 10 feet.Arbor Vitse, Chinese, tree form, 5i to 6 feet.Arbor A itsc, Napalensis, 3 to 6 feet,Arbor Vitse, Siberian, 3 to 5 feet, .Arbutus llnedo. Evergreen Strawberry tree,Anenba Japonica, 3 to 4 feet,Cedar, Spiral, or Conical, full branched, 4 to 10 feetCedar, Deodora, beautiful, 6 feet,Cedar, Deodora, 3 to 4 feet,Cedar, Deodora viridis, Y to 9 feet,Cedar of Lebanon, 5 to 8 feet,Cedar of Lebanon, 3 to 4 feet, .Cryptomeria Japonica, Japan Weeping Cypress

feet, ....Cryptomeria Japonica, 3 feet, .Cypress, Pyramidal, or Oriental, 3 feet.Cypress, Chinese, 3 to 5 feet, .Cypress, Funebral, 2^ to 4 feet,Enonymns, Japan Green, 3 to 5 feet, .Enonymus, Japan Variegated, 3 to 6 feet, .Holly,


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SELECT SPECIAL CATALOGUE.

Jimiperns Irgentea, or Silvery, 4 feet,JaDiperns Argentea, 5 to 8 feet,

Note.the three preceding species of Juniperform the most unique and beautiful conicalshaped Trees, for ornamenttng Lawns andCemeteries.

jHDiper, Mexican, 4 to 5 feet,Juniper, Virginian, or Red Cedar,6 to 10 feet.Ealmia, latifolia, American Lanrel, old plants,Lanrel, Englisli, 3 to 6 feet, ....Lanrel, Portugal, 2 to 3 feet,Magnolia, grandiflora, 3 feet, and well formed.Magnolia grandiflora, 4 to 6 feet, .

N. B. This Tree is perfectly hardy in this lati-tude, and its foliage and magnificent fra-grant flowers render it the most splendid ofEvergreens.

Blahonia, several splendid species, with very uniqueand beautiful foliage, and showy flowers, 2to 3 feet, .....

Oak, Tarkey, sub-evergreen, 4 to 5 feet, .Pine, Austrian, 3 to 6 feet, . . ...California Pines, different species, 4 to 5 feet.Pine, ExcelsaHimalaya Pine^ 3 to 6 feet.Pine, Macrocarpa, of California, 4 to 5 feet.Pine, Pineaster, 3 to 8 feet, ....Pine, Scotch, or Fir, 4 to lo feet, .Pine, Stone Pine, eatable fruit, 2 to 3 feet, .Pine, White, 5 to 7 feet, ....Pine, White, 8 to 9 feet, ....Photinia serrnlata, of California, beautiful foliage,showy flowers and fruit, 2 to 4 feet.Rhododendron Ponticnm, several varieties, 3 to 6 feet.Rhododendron Catawbiense, several varieties, 3 to 5 ft.Rhododendron Arborenm, 3 to 4 feet,Rhododendron Cancasicnm, several varieties, 3 to 5 ft.,Rhododendron McDowell's, 3 to 5 feet, .Scotch Broom, showy flowers, 6 to 7 feet, .Taxodinm sempervirens, 3 to 5 feet, .Tree Box, several varieties, 3 to 4 feet, bushy,Tree Box, variegated, 3 to 4 feet, bushy, '.Tew, English, 3 to 7 feet, ....Yew, Upright, or Erecta, 3 to 7 feet, .Yew, Irish, 2 to 4 feet, ....

Each $ c. to $ c.3 00

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(1856) special select catalogue of extra large-sized fruit trees in a bearing state

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