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FRED'K W. KELSEY. 150 BROADWAY. NEW YORK Autumn. 1901. 



Fine Hardy Shrutos— ' o/if/n/cf/. 



Burdfr ot Hardy Rhododendrons. 



RHODODENDRONS. Best Hardy. These superb plants are indispensable in giving effective- 

 ness and character to the planting of all ornamental grounds. In solid masses and borders 

 they are incomparably fine. They can be easily grown with perfect success. Although 

 adapted to a shaded situation, they will flourish in any good loamy soil, moderately enriched 

 with well-rotted leaf mould, cow manure or well-rotted sod. The plants should always be 

 arranged in good sized beds or masses, and, when first planted, set as close as 2 or 3 feet 

 apart. The beds or borders should not be less than 2 or 3 feet deep, and the plants mulched 

 or otherwise kept in moist condition at the roots. It is dbottght in most cases that injures 

 the plants, not the cold weather, as is generally supposed. The seed pods should always be 

 removed after flowering. My plants this season are unusually fine, and of the strictly hardy 

 varieties for this climate. I offer them, as heretofore, in case collections of 25, 50 and 100 

 PLANTS TO THE CASE T/ie.s'e cofes contair} a choice selection of the best hardy named varieties of 

 assorted colors for group or mass planting, for immediate effect. Particular varieties can be 

 supplied by the hundred or thousand at lowest prices for well-budded, reliable plants. These 

 are the cheapest and best. There is no experiment in trying them. Every plant will grow, 

 and will bloom nicely the first season. Many foreign plants sold in this country, owing to 

 lack of hardiness, are almost worthless. Thousands of such plants are sent out every 

 season. Practically all of the Ehododendrons grown on the continent contain more or less 

 of the arboreum or ponticum strain, and are wholly useless for planting in the Central, Mid- 

 dle or New England States. This accentuates the importance of obtaining from responsible, 

 reliable houses the really hardy Catawbiense varieties, such as are here offered, and which 

 always give satisfaction. 



Owing to the increased demand for these fine hardy plants, there is likely to be a scar- 

 city of particular kinds; hence the desirability of early orders, which secure first selection 

 from the present year's growth without extra cost. Orders entered for shipment this fall, 

 or at proper time in spring, as preferred, at the following low prices : Bushy well-budded 

 plants, several times transplanted, with ball, 18 to 24 inches, S12 per dozen; $80 per 100. 

 Selected, about 2 feet, very fine, $15 per doz. ; $100 and $125 per 100. Selected, extra, 2 to 3 

 feet, SIS to $25 per dozen ; S125 and $150 per 100. 



HARDY RHODODENDRONS. Best Hardy Seedlings. Fine colors; good, bushy trans- 

 planted plants with buds, from $40 to $100 per 100. Special prices peb 1000 fob best 



NAMED kinds of SEEDLINGS, ON APPLICATION. 



RHODODENDRON maximum. Kose Bay or Gbeat Laubel. The native species found so 

 abundantly in the Eastern and Central Southern States. Very large, bold, and handsome 

 foliage; white and rose-colored flowers in midsummer; blooms later than other Rhododen- 

 drons. 



Selected plants, 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 feet, $25 to S75 per 100. Different sizes, including large 

 specimens, per 1,000 and in eirload lots, at special prices. Particulars on application. 



Carload of Rhododendrons have arrived and are all planted out. Mr. R. Is quite pleased with thetn. 

 The stock was nil In good condition. P. R. 



Thompson, Conn. 



