Abridged Descriptive Catalogue Of Fruit Ornamental Trees Shrubs Roses Flowering Plants Bulbs C Cultivated And For Sale At The Rochester Nurseries Brighton Near Rochester Ny Silas Boardman Proprietor PDF Download

Excerpt from General Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Etc: Cultivated and for Sale at the Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y., 1890 Although the descriptions in this general catalogue are necessarily brief, we have made them sufficiently comprehensive to answer every purpose, and we are sure that the book will be found very useful to all who are interested in fruits and flowers. We take especial pleasure in addressing our patrons at this time, for this year we cele brate the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of our Nursery. Beginning with a few acres and no capital except industry, perseverance and a determination to succeed, we made progress slowly at first. On two occasions fire destroyed all of our buildings and hail ruined our stock, and so very discouraging was the outlook that we were on the' point of giving up the business; but, after carefully considering the matter, we resolved to make another attempt, and starting anew, put forth all our energies, and from that time, success crowned our efforts. Space will not permit or we could give many interesting facts and experiences which would show conclusively that success was only achieved by years of hard labor, mental and physical; but being young, strong and ambitious, we did not take into account labor, so long as we accomplished what we set out to do. The history of the progress and development of the business cannot be shown in any better way than by quoting from our catalogues issued at different times, as the demands of our business required. In the preface to our catalogue issued in 1846, six years after starting, the following statement is made: ' Our Nursery grounds are quite extensive. We at present occupy fifteen acres and are prepared to plant six more the ensuing autumn. Our purpose is, and has been since the formation of our establishment, to make here in Western New York, a collection of fruits unsurpassed by any in the country, embracing every valuable variety of either native or foreign origin, adapted to our soil and climate; with this end in view, we have been gathering from time to time from every quarter, such varieties as we have found to be held in high estimation in their respective localities. Two years hence we shall have a superb list of American fruits: our extensive personal acquaintance with the principal fruit growers and Nurserymen in England and on the continent has enabled us to make arrange ments to receive annually any new and valuable fruits that may be brought to notice. Our practice is to plant a specimen tree of every variety cultivated in order to test it under our own observation; our specimen grounds now contain upwards of two hundred varieties of apples. One hundred and fifty of pears, sixty of cherries, fifty of plums, else. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.