[Nursery Catalogue]: Wharton, Silas:

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SILAS WHARTON'S CATALOGUE OF FRUIT TREES, FOR SALE IN THE FALL OF 182[_] IN HIS NURSERY AT HIS DWELLING NEAR WAYNESVILLE, WARREN COUNTY, OHIO...[caption ... Although principally advertising Wharton's nursery, the broadside also notes his trees available at various other Ohio locations, including Cincinnati, Clinton County, Green County, and Waynesville, as well as two locations in Indiana.The center of the broadside comprises a list of available trees, set in four columns, beginning with ninety-one varieties of apple, organized by the time of ripening, followed by fifty-eight varieties of pear, thirteen peach, nine plum, fourteen cherry, as well as orange trees, gooseberries, currants, and raspberries. The text continues: "The above trees are engrafted or inoculated, and are young and thrifty, and some natural apple and pear trees of a large size at some of the place....The subscriber has with much expense and trouble collected his fruits from the most respectable establishments, and from individuals, while living in Pennsylvania, and since living in the western country, he has received a large collection from Coxe & Smith of Burlington, New Jersey...." Brief descriptions of a few varieties follows.A Quaker nurseryman from Pennsylvania, Silas Wharton (1774–858) arrived in Ohio in 1810 and became an important early distributor for famed orchardist William Coxe. Catalogues by Wharton are known as early as 1819. A similar catalogue, dated 1824, is referred to and quoted at lengt

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