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FREDERICK W. KELSEY. 



ILKX CRENATA. JAPANtSK HOl^LV. 

 (See page 29.) 



HARDY RHODODENDRON SEEDLINGS. (II). 

 Wlicrc borders or effective mass planting with 

 the beautiful flower and foliage of the Rhodo- 

 dendron is desired the hearty Catawbiense 

 Seedling Rhododendrons are used to excellent 

 advantage. These plants are grown from the 

 hardiest strain of the Catawbien.se varieties, 

 and are recommended as likely to give excellent 

 satisfaction. The plants are well grown and 

 frequently transplanted, which insure safe ship- 

 ment and successful planting at any time dur- 

 ing the season, — spring planting being pre- 

 ferable. 



Prices for these fine hardy Seedling Rhodo- 

 dendrons, 12 to iS inches, 18 to 24 inches, 2 to 3 

 feet, $40, $60, $So, and $100 per hundred. The 

 larger sizes are well budded for immediate effect. 

 Smaller transplanting plants, suitable for 

 planting in nursery rows, 6 to 12 inches $75 to 

 $150 per hundred. 

 RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM. (I). This native 

 species of the hardy Rhododendron is incom- 

 parably fine and particularly valuable for mass 



groupings for immediate effect. The large, 

 long, dark, glossy green foliage, and bold, 

 dense clusters of the most beautiful lavender or 

 pink tinted blossoms in mid-summer ])roduce 

 the most striking and beautiful effects the first 

 season. 



The species being indigenous in the coldest 

 sections of the United .States gives the plants 

 an absolute hardiness not excelled by any of the 

 other ornamental Shrubs; and when grown in 

 good soil m the open and properly pruned or 

 headed back, the plants form great masses of 

 foliage of uniform outline, and not infrequently 

 as broad as high. 



Each of these plants being moved with a 

 compact ball of earth, there is little or no risk in 

 transplanting or in shipping in carload lots to 

 any part of the country; and the very low price 

 at which I am now furnishing this stock is an 

 inducement for even a more extended demand 

 of this material in future than I have supplied 

 in the recent past. Anticipating this demand I 

 am prepared to furnish any number of carloads 

 of the very finest quality of selected plants, 

 such as above described, and at exceptionally 

 low prices. 



The size of the plants varies from about feet 

 up to g or 10 feet ; all compact, well furnished, 

 beautifully budded, and packed in cars in best 

 possible condition. 



Price for these specimen plants is from $100 

 to $250 per car net, not including freight, ac- 

 cording to the size and perfectness of the speci- 

 mens. Ordinary plants as frequently furnished 

 from the native woods can be supplied at even 

 less price, but in comparison as to real value or 

 planting effects, the finer specimens abov-e de- 

 scribed are by far the cheapest and best.' 



RHODODENDRON Ponticum. (II). This half 

 hardy species is grown largely in southern 

 Europe and is well suited for ]5lanting in Cali- 

 fornia or the middle Southern States, but is not 

 sufficiently hardy for safe planting in the Cen- 

 tral or Northern States. Bushy, well budded 

 plants, from i to 3 feet, S25 to $100 per hundred. 



YUCCA filamentosa. (III). See Evergreen 

 Shrubs. I 



Trained Specimens for 

 Formal Gardens. 



The Formal or Italian Garden is becoming a feature in much of the best landscape work in this 

 country. This style of gardening with its trimmed trees and shrubs of clipped form, adds a unique 

 attraction to many country estates. 



To Meet the rapidly increasing demand for these trained specimens for formal planting I have 

 unsurpassed facilities for furnishing selections of the different varieties and sizes from my own direct 

 importations of carefully selected stock from the best in Europe, and at very reasonable prices. Many 

 of these specimen trees and plants are of exceptional size and quality, and are not only the largest 

 and finest obtainable but cannot be duplicated or replaced. 



All This Stock is grown and shipped either in suitable boxes or tubs, or with solid compact balls of 

 earth about the roots, thus avoiding practically all risk in safe shipment to any part of the country, or 



The Rhododendrons arrived all right and were fine plants. 

 Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



C. A. 



