Title: Annual catalogue and price list of the Royal Palm Nurseries : tropical and semi-tropical trees and plants and rare exotics for the greenhouse or lawn
Identifier: annualcataloguep1888roya (find matches)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Royal Palm Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs
Publisher: (Manatee, F. L. ) : Royal Palm Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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f INTR0DaGT0RY. In Genesis we read— " Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food." And many years after, when Milton described the same Garden, he said: His far more pleasant garden God ordain'd. Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste ; * * Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill,'and dale, and plain ; * Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, (Hesperian fables true. If true, here only,) and of delicious taste." "But law!" Josiah Allen's wife or Mrs. Grundy would say, "that was dretfully old- fashioned ! " For in the advanced and enlightened Nineteenth Century, Oscar Wilde and the modern New York florist have decreed that Sunflowers, Gardenias, Bride roses " tied with cream-tinted satin ribbon," and a few other et ceteras of tulle, plush table covers, etc., are " most elegant, chaste and fashionable arrangements," and that the thousands of other beautiful and fragrant flowers are entirely unsuited to a " mode design ; " and Mrs. Grundy herself has said that an orange grove in Florida is "just too sweet and profitable for anything, but as for Mangoes and these fancy trees, they'll do well enough for folks that can afford it, btit give me something substantial, like an orange grove!" Patient reader, if the modern New York florist and Mrs. Grundy could be tied together by the heels and ignominiously sunk, like a kitten in a corn-sack, in the deepest part of the Indian Ocean, and people left to do as their tastes directed for awhile, the world would improve in manners, morals and good sense. But we can only work on, " wishing, hoping, waiting " for the Millenium, when even the devotees of fashion will be allowed to smell Gardenias, fragrant Oleanders, or Skunk's Cabbage, as they see fit. For those who can not afford to sit down and wait for the Mil- lennium, we have prepared our new Catalogue, hoping that the few plants we have been enabled to "scrape together," out of Nature's abundance, may meet with their approval, whether Mrs. Grundy approves of all of them or not. " In this pleasant soil
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