NEW SEEDLING STRAWBERRY. BOSTON PINE. HOVEY & Co. HAVE the pleasure of again announcing to their friends, and lovers of this delicious fruit, that their new seedling, called the BOSTON PINE, is ready for sale, after the trial of another season. This variety is one of the most valuable kinds ever produced; it is not quite as large as Hovey's Seedling, but possesses the very desirable quality of being nearly ten days earlier, remarkably beautiful, equally if not more productive, and of the highest and most delicious pine flavor. The flowers are all perfect, and will always bear an abundant crop, with or without any other sort. Several large baskets of the Pine were exhibited the past season, before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and the Fruit Committee made the following report: "The Messrs. Hovey presented four large baskets of strawberries, two of Hovey's Seedling, and two of Boston Pine. The berries were very large, and the flavor delicious. Hovey's Seedling is well known to cultivators through the length and breadth of the land, and we shall be greatly mistaken if the Boston Pine is not found, in a few years, in every good collection. It is perfect in its organs, and, when grown within twenty feet of Hovey's Seedling, will ensure a certain and large crop to the latter variety. We recommend both the varieties as deserving of extensive cultivation." Strong plants are now ready for delivery, at the low price of $1 per dozen, and will be packed to bear transportation to any part of the country. Orders executed in the rotation in which they are received. Orders from a distance, remitting the amount, will be duly attended to, the plants safely packed, and forwarded to any part of the country. ALSO, THE FOLLOWING SELECT VARIETIES: Hovey's Seedling.-Well known, and acknowledged to be the finest of all strawberries. For its production, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society presented Messrs. H. & Co. with a beautiful SILVER PITCHER, of the VALUE OF FIFTY DOLLARS. Plants, $1 50 per hundred, and $10 per thousand. Deptford Pine.-A new English variety, of high reputation, which promises to be a late and desirable sort. Plants, 50 cts. per dozen. some. Princess Alice Maud.-Another new English variety, large and handFirst exhibited the past year by H. & Co. Plants, 50 cts. per doz. Together with all the common kinds worth cultivation. HOVEY & CO. April 1st, 1847. FINE SCARLET GERANIUMS. HOVEY & Co. Offer for sale the following very fine varieties of Scarlet Geraniums, some of which are exceedingly rare and beautiful. They have been selected from the most showy kinds in English collections, and all of them beautiful for turning out into the border, or planting in circles upon the lawn, where, from the brilliancy of their flowers, they form the showiest objects of the garden. TOM THUMB is a most remarkable variety, attaining only to the height of 6 or 8 inches, with small foliage, but with fine large clusters of brilliant scarlet flowers, which rise on strong stems, high above the leaves. Only a few plants of this variety are for sale. Plants packed carefully, for safe transportation to all parts of the country. CHOICE VARIETIES OF FRUIT, BY S. MOULSON, AT THE OLD ROCHESTER NURSERY. 20,000 trees of the celebrated Northern Spy Apple, all of which are rootgrafted those seven to eight feet high, fifty cents each. Medium sizes, thirty-seven and a half cents; small ones at less. A discount will be allowed to purchasers of large quantities, for the purpose of selling again. This highly desirable, long-keeping fruit, having been introduced by this establishment at an early period, the proprietor is enabled to offer larger trees than are usually found, and having been grown from scions of the original bearing trees in this vicinity, parties ordering may be sure of their genuineness. Also, a general assortment of Apple, Pear, Quince, Plum, Cherry, Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, Currant, Gooseberry, Raspberry, Strawberry, and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, which will be properly packed, when desired, for any portion of the United States, Canada, or Europe. Catalogues gratis, to post-paid applicants. Orders, not accompanied with remittance, must contain reference, which may be to parties residing at Rochester, Boston, New York, or Philadelphia. Also at Montreal, Kingston, Cobourg, Toronto, or Hamilton. March 1, 1847. S. MOULSON, Office 36 Front-street, Rochester, N. Y. GRAPE VINES FOR GRAPERIES. HOVEY & CO. OFFER FOR SALE 1000 GRAPE VINES IN POTS, Raised from eyes, from 2 feet to 4 feet high, and sufficiently strong for planting out the ensuing spring, suitable for Graperies, Greenhouses, &c., comprising the following varieties, true to name : some of them new, rare and valuable. Black Hamburgh Black Hamburgh, Wilmot's (new) Black July, (Early) Chasselas, Red Chasselas, White Frontignan, Red Frontignan, Black Lombardy Prices 75 cents each, or $6 per dozen, except those marked (*), which are $1 each. 30 other new varieties are under cultivation and will be offered for sale in the fall of 1847. Plants carefully packed for safe transportation to all parts of the country. THE TRUE FASTOLFF RASPBERRY. HOVEY & Co. INFORM their friends, and the Horticultural world, that they are now enabled to supply fine roots of this superb new raspberry, unequalled both for its size and richness of flavor. The original plants were received from Messrs. Youell & Co. who first introduced this variety to notice, and who have received two prizes from the London Society for its superior qualities. It was also fruited by Messrs. H. & Co., the past year, and proved fully equal to the reputation it had acquired in England. The plants are strong, healthy, and in the best condition, and will be sent to any part of the country on the following terms :— Also a fine stock of the Franconia Raspberry, at $10 per hundred or $150 per dozen. The trade supplied on liberal terms. August 1st, 1846. SPLENDID NEW WORK ON FRUIT. THE FRUITS OF AMERICA, BY C. M. HOVEY, EDITOR OF THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. CONTAINING RICHLY COLORED ENGRAVINGS, ACCOMPANIED WITH THE WOOD AND FOLIAGE, OF ALL THE CHOICEST FRUITS CULTIVATED IN THE UNITED STATES. From Paintings from Nature, made expressly for this Work, CHROMOLITHED AND RETOUCHED UNDER HIS DIRECTION. THE LETTER press to cONTAIN A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE fruits, the HABIT OF GROWTH OF THE TREES, COLOR OF THE WOOD, AND FORM OF THE LEAVES: THE synonyms UNDER WHICH EACH VARIETY IS KNOWN, THE ORIGIN AND PERIOD OF INTRODUCTION, AND ALL OTHER The Work will appear in Royal Octavo Numbers, (uniform with Audubon's Birds of America,) and will contain four plates each, with Eight Pages of letter-press, on the finest paper, and in beautiful type; the Original Paintings executed by that distinguished artist, W. SHARP, chromolithed and retouched under his eye. The text will give all the Synonyms under which each variety is known, its origin, when to be ascertained, its period of introduction, with an accurate description of the Habit of the Tree, Wood, Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit, the Period of Ripening, and all other particulars worthy of note. The whole, with a few exceptions in the early numbers, from Specimen Trees in the extensive collection of the Author, where their comparative merits, in the same soil and locality, can be correctly estimated. The Plates will not be numbered or paged, but left with a blank No., so that each Class of Fruit may be bound up by itself, arranged alphabetically, according to the season of ripening, or in any other way, when the Work is completed, or together as issued, at the option of Subscribers. Twelve Numbers will complete a Volume, which will be furnished with a Title-Page and Index. A list of Subscribers will accompany each Volume. The First Number was issued in APRIL, 1847, and the succeeding Numbers will appear on the First of every alternate month. NUMBER 11 will contain the following varieties of fruits :— VICOMPTE DE SPOELBERCH PEAR, WINTER NELIS Pear, SIEULLE PEAR, NORTHERN SPY APPLE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: In Royal Octavo, richly colored, at $1 per number, payable on delivery. A limited number of impressions in Imperial quarto, very highly finished, $2 per number. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY C. C. LITTLE AND J. BROWN, 112, WASHINGTON STREET. HOVEY & CO., 7, MERCHANTS Row. |