Sure Sign of Spring - Garden Seed for Sale - Georgetown, Feb. 26, 1814

Ott & Bunyie,
Vegetable Seed for Sale
February 26, 1814
Federal Republican Newspaper
Georgetown, District of Columbia

GARDEN SEED.

The subscriber has just received, a General

Assortment of

FRESH GARDEN SEEDS,

AMONG WHICH ARE,

Early York                                          CABBAGES

Battersea                                                        "

Drum- Head                                                   "          

Green & Yellow Savoy,                                 "          

Early Short- Top & Salmon RADISHES

Solid and Red CELERY

Double PARSLEY, Red BEAT

PARSNIP and CARROT Seed

White and Brown ONION

Early and Late CAULIFLOWER

VEGETABLE OYSTER

MIXED ENDIVE, LETTUCE

EARLY CUCUMBER- all of which have

been tried, and found to vegetate.

He has on hand, as usual,

a large and General Assortment of

DRUGS, PATENT & and OTHER FAMILY

MEDICINES

CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS

PAINTS, OILS, DIE STUFFS,

PERFUMERY, SPICES,

HAVANA SEGARS of a superior quality &c.

All of which he is disposed to sell on the lowest terms.    JOHN OTT.

                                                                                                                        Chemist and Druggist.

N.B. For the accommodation of his friends

and the public, he keeps his Fountains of

SODA & ROCHELLE WATER

running during the winter.

Georgetown, Feb. 17.  co18t

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GARDEN SEEDS, &c.

            The subscriber being executor on the estate

of the late Thomas Main, Gardener, near

Georgetown, has for sale at his store, opposite the post office, Georgetown,

            Beans and Peas of different sorts

            Early York and other Cabbages,

            Turnip, Onion And a variety of other Garden seeds

                        Also, at the Nursery

some thousand plants of the Pirate cancer

Hedge Thorne, a variety of Fruit Trees

Purple Each, Paper Mulberry

Catava, Chinese Arborvitae

Honey Locust, Flowering Bushes, &c.

                        WILLIAM BUNYIE [sic].

February 15 - co[3]t*[1]

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[1]  Federal Republican; Date: 02-26-1814; Page: [1]; Georgetown, District of Columbia.

Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, February 26th, 2014.

Thomas Main, a gardener from Scotland, settled in the District of Columbia around 1804. His nursery may have been the earliest in the District of Columbia.

"In 1805, Thomas Jefferson ordered 4,000 thorns from the Thomas Main nursery to plant at Monticello as a live fence.Main called this particular species the "American hedge thorn" and it grew abundantly around Washington." quoted from the website - Washington Hawthorn at http://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/washington-hawthorn