Appendix B: Trees and Shrubs

 

November 11, 1800[1]

White Thorns

Lombardy Poplar

Locusts

Shrubs and flower roots

 

March 3, 1806[2]

Lombardy Poplar

Flowering Shrubs

 

February 10, 1809[3]

Lombardy Poplar

Flowering Trees and Shrubs

 

January 24, 1821[4]

(From the nursery of Benjamin Prince & Co., New York)

Sugar Maple

Scarlet Maple

Horse Chestnut

European Lime

Linden

European Mountain Ash

Weeping Willows

Magnolias

Tripetia

Accummisa

Chinese Double Flowering Apple

Tulip Trees

Carolina Cotton Tree

English Elms

Large Spanish Chestnut

Larch Trees

Balm of Gilead

Silver Fir

Gooseberry

Rasberry

Currants

Lewis’ Fragrant Currant

Grape Vines

 

December 1, 1825[5]

(From the nursery of Daniel Smith in New Jersey)

Gooseberries, thirty varieties

Currants

Strawberries

Raspberries

Foreign and Native Grapes, thirty varieties


 


[1] Peter Billy, “Fruit Trees for Sale,” The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette, November 11, 1800, p. 4.

[2] Nicholas Hingston, Alexandria Daily Gazette, March 3, 1806, p. 4.

[3] “Fresh Clover-Seed,” Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial  & Political, February 10, 1809, p. 1.

[4] “Fruit, Forest Trees, &c.,” Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser, January 24, 1821, p. 1.

[5] George Drinker, “Fruit trees and Ornamental Shrubbery,” Alexandria Gazette, December 1, 1825, p. 1.