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### Author
Prince, William (1766-1842), American botanist and horticulturist, proprietor of the "Linnaean botanic Garden" at Flushing, N.Y.
**Abbreviated name**: *W. Prince* \[standard form in IPNI: *Prince*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Material at [[Collection PH|PH]] (Schweinitz coll).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 111; BM 4: 1615; CSP 5: 22; Lenley p. 335; ME 1: 221, 3: 641; PR ed. 1: 8227; PH 567; Rehder 5: 690; SO 893b; Tucker 1: 570.
#### Biofile
- Allibone, S.A., Crit. Dict. Engl. lit. 1690. 1870.
- Barnhart, J.H., Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16: 298. 1921, Bartonia 16: 32-33. 1934 (corr. Schweinitz).
- Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 133. 1969.
- Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 385. 1938.
- Hedrick, H.P., Hist. hort. America 545 \[index\]. 1950.
- Lemmon, K., Golden age plant hunters 145. 1968.
- Mears, J.A., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 122(3): 169. 1978 (pl. in Schweinitz herb. PH).
- Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 85. 1981 (corr. C.R. Ball).
### Publications
##### n.8324. Catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees
**Title**
*Catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees* and plants, bulbous flower roots, green-house plants, &c. Cultivated at the Linnaean botanic garden,... to which is added, a short treatise on their cultivation, &c. Twenty-first edition. New York (printed by T. and J. Swords...) 1822. Duod. (in sixes).
**Abbreviated title**: *Cat. fruit. trees*.
**Notes**
*Ed. 21*: 1822, p. \[i\], \[1, 9\]-140. *Copy*: NY. – See Rehder 1: 38.
*Ed. 22*: 1823, p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-143. *Copy*: NY.
*Ed. 28*: 1832, p. \[1\]-3, 173-193. *Copy*: FI. – *Annual wholesale catalogue of American trees, shrubs, plants and seeds*... Providence (W. Marshall and Co....) 1832.
*Note*: We failed to locate other editions.