The Cotton Kingdom, volume 2 (of 2) - Frederick Law Olmsted

Mr Rousset beg to inform they are arrived in this town, with a large assortment of the most rare vegetable plants, either flowerd on fruit bearer, onion bulbous, seeds, &c., &c. Price very moderate.

Their store is situated

CHOIX D’ARBRES A FRUIT.

Choice of Fruit Trees.

Pear Trees.
1 Good Louisa from Avranche.
2 Winter’s Perfume.
3 Saint-John-in-Iron.
4 Leon-the-Clerc.
5 Bergamot from England.
6 Duchess of Angoulême.
7 Goulu-Morceau.
8 Tarquin Pear.
9 Summer’s Good (large) Christian.
10 Good Turkisk Christian.
11 Grey (large) Beurré.
12 Royal Beurré from England.
1 Bon-Chrétien d’été.
2 —— d’hiver.
3 —— de Pâque.
4 Doyenné blanc.
5 Duchesse d’Angora-New.
6 Belle Angevine, fondante.
7 Crassane d’hiver.
8 Louise d’Orleans, sucré.
9 Double fleur hâtif.
10 Angélique de Tour.
1 Borgamotte de Milan, Gros.
2 —— d’Aiençon, très-gros.
3 Beurrê gris d’hiver.
4 —— Amanlis.
5 —— d’Hardenpont, précoce.
6 Fortunè, fondant.
7 Josephine, chair fine.
8 Martin-sec, sucrè.
9 Messire, gris.
10 Muscat d’etè.
11 Doyenné d’automne.
12 —— d’hiver, sucré.
13 Virgouleuse fondonte.
14 Bezy-Lamotte.
15 Gros-Blanquet.
APPLES.
1 Renetto of Spain.
2 —— Green.
3 Apple Coin.
4 —— Friette.
5 Calville, white, winter’s fruit.
6 —— red, autumn’s fruit.
7 —— red, winter’s fruit.
8 Violet or of the Four-Taste.
9 Renette from England, or Gold-Apple.
10 Golded Renette, a yellow backward plant.
11 White—of a great perfume.
12 Renette, red, winter’s fruit.
1 Renette, yellow, heavy fruit.
2 —— grey, very delicate.
3 —— Princess noble.
4 Apple d’Api.
5 —— d’Eve.
6 Winter’s Postophe.
7 Plein gney fenouillet.
8 Renette franc.
9 —— of St. Laurent.
10 Sammers Numbourg.
11 Belle du Havre.
12 Belle Hollandaise.
1 Violet Apple or of the 4 taste; the fruit may be preserved 2 years.
2 Princess Renette, of a gold yellow, spotted with red of a delicious taste.
3 White Renette from Canada, of which the skin is lite scales strange by its size.
4 The Cythère Apple.
5 The Caynoite Apple.
6 Apple Trees with double flowers. Blooms twice a year, Camélia’s flowers like.
106 others kinds of Apples of the newest choice.
Apricots.
1 The Ladie’s Apricots.
2 The Peack Apricots.
3 The Royal Apricots.
4 The Gros Muscg Apricots.
5 The Pourret Apricots.
6 Portugal Apricots.
7 Apricats monstruous from America, of a gold yellow, of an enormous size, and of the pine’s apple taste.
Peach Trees.
1 Peach Grosse Mignonne.
2 —— Bello Beauty.
3 —— Godess.
4 —— Beauty of Paris.
5 —— From Naples! said without stone.
6 Brugnon, musc taste.
7 Admirable; Belle of Vitry.
8 The Large Royal.
9 Monstruous Pavie.
10 The Cardinal, very forward.
11 Good Workman.
12 Lètitia Bonaparte.
13 The Prince’s Peach, melting in the mouth.
14 The Prince’s Peach from Africa, with large white fruit, weighing pound and half each; nearly, new kind.
50 others new kinds of Peach Trees.
Plum Trees.
1 Plum Lamorte.
2 Surpasse Monsieur.
3 Damas with musc taste.
4 Royale of Tonrs.
5 Green Gage, of a violet colour.
6 Large Mirabelle.
7 Green gage, golded.
8 Imperial, of a violet colour.
9 Empress, of a white colour.
10 Ste-Catherine, zellow, suger taste like.
Cherry Trees.
1 Cherry from the North.
2 —— Royal, gives from 18 to 20 cherries weighing one pound, 4 differentes kinds.
3 Cherry Reina Hortense.
4 —— Montmorency.
5 —— with thort stalk (Gros-Gobet).
6 —— Le Mercier.
7 —— Four for a pound.
8 Cherry Beauty of Choicy.
9 —— The English.
10 Cherry-Duck.
11 —— Creole with bunches.
12 —— Bigarrot or monster of new Mézel.
Currant Trees.
1 Currant Three with red bunches (grapes).
2 —— with white bunches.
3 Gooseberries of 1st choice (Raspberries) six kinds of alégery.
4 New kind of currants, of which the grapes are as big as the wine grapes.
Grapes Wines.
1 Chasselas of Fontainebleau, with large gold grains.
2 Chasselas, black very good.
3 —— red, of musc teste.
4 Verdal, the sweetest and finest fruit for desert.
5 White Muscadine grape, or of Frontignan.
6 Muscat of Alexandrie, musc taste.
7 Cornichon, white, sweet sugar like, very good.
8 Tokay, red and white.
9 Verjus from Bordeaux, large yellow fruit.
10 St. Peter large and fine fruit.
11 Red Muscadine Graper.
12 Raisin of Malaga.
13 The Celestial Wine Tree, or the amphibious grain, weighing two ounces, the grain of a red and violet colour.
New Strawberry Plants.
1 The Strawberry Cremont.
2 —— the Queen.
3 —— monster, new kind.
4 —— from Chili.
5 Caperon of a raspberry taste.
6 Scarlat from Venose, very forward plant.
7 Prince Albert, fruit of very great beauty.
8 Grinston colalant, very large.
9 Rose-Berry, big fruit and of a long form.
10 Bath cherry, very good.
11 The Big Chinese Strawberry, weighing 16 to a pound, produce fruit all year round, of the pine apple’s taste.
12 Vilmoth full.
New Fig Trees of a Monstruous Size.
1 Diodena white, of a large size.
2 Duchess of Maroc, green fruit.
3 Donne-à-Dieu, blue fruit.
4 La Sanspareille, yellow fruit.

The Perpetual Rapsberry Tree, imported from Indies producing a fruit large as an egg, taste delicious 3 kinds, red, violet and white.