Excerpt from Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Plants, Bulbous Flower Roots, Green-House Plants, &C. &C: Cultivated at the Linnaean Botanic Garden, William Prince, Proprietor, Flushing, Long-Island, Near New-York; To Which Is Added, a Short Treatise on Their Cultivation, &C

Very large accessions are making monthly to the Green-house collection, and also to the establishment generally, as well by extensive importations from the most celebrated collections of Europe, as by the inter change of civilities with Botanic Gardens in different quarters of the globe, and the liberal contributions of gentlemen of science and research, whose pleasure or avocations call them to remote regions; and seeds of several hundred very valuable species are now in the possession of the proprietor, which have been received from these sources, but which it is contrary to the rules of this establishment to publish-as in their possession.

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