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Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Climbing-Vines, Stove and Greenhouse Plants, Including Many Very Desirable Novelties, Cultivated and for Sale by W. C. Strong & Co., at Nonantum Hill, Brighton, Mass., Horse-Cars leave Bowdoin Square, Boston at Half-Past Every Hour and Pass the Nursery and Greenhouses. Salesroom at 4 Beacon Street, Boston.
Boston: Press of Rand, Avery & Co., 1872, 12mo, 54, 4 plates, 24 pp., original printed wrappers, ex-library, small handstamp on upper right-hand corner of front wrapper, some nicks, and chips to edges of wraps, otherwise very good.
This catalog is divided
into parts and carries a wide-ranging variety of plants and fruit trees, the
second part consists of “new and rare varieties.” The plates show examples of
rustic work, trellises, and cases, which were also available from the
firm.