WHERE KELSEY'S HARDY AMERICAN PLANTS ARE GROWN 
The true Rhododendron catawbiense growing wild at 5,000 feet elevation, western North Carolina. 
Mt. Mitchell. 6.600 feet, the highest point east of the Rockies in the distance. 
This is the hardy parent of the hardiest named catawbiense hybrids. R. ponticum, the other 
parenl is not hardy. My R. catawbiense true species is therefore entirely hardy as far north as the latitude 
ol Ottawa. Canada. R. maximum and my new. rare R. carolinianum, coming from the same altitudes as 
R. catawbiense, are also absolutely hardy. 
American Native Plants At Last 
Appreciated By Americans 
The story is interesting. Nearly thirty years ago in the high Carolina mountains, where Nature 
has lavished a marvelous flora the like of which is unknown elsewhere in America, we started a small 
nursery of a hare half-acre. The dainty Azalea vaseyi anil that most beautiful and rare of all Amer- 
ican evergreens. Tsuga caroliniana, had just been discovered, and these, with a meager fifteen 
other species, were our first offerings. Europeans eagerly seized the opportunity to use and enjoy 
what they considered the choicest of the world's plant productions. But not so the Americans. 
The craze for "exotics" was at its height and nothing "American" was popular. 
It is now all changed; our decades of persistent labor and advertising and the bitter experiences 
of Americans through the use of unsuitable foreign material are now reaping a just reward. 
WORTH-WHILE RESULTS 
We feel justly proud of the work we have accomplished in making our Native Plants known and 
used; where a few- years ago they were almost entirely excluded from American parks, lawns, and 
gardens, they are now planted by hundreds of thousands, and appreciated and enjoyed as never 
before. Each year sees them better known, more widely planted, and more loved by those to whom 
natural rather than exotic effects appeal, and who desire permanent finished planting rather than 
the unfortunate replanting continually required where the so-called "cultivated" plants are used 
exclusively. 
FROM A HALF-ACRE BEGINNING 
We have grown into two large nurseries, hundreds of acres in extent, and producing literally 
millions of our choicest Hardy American Trees. Shrubs, Bulbs, Ferns, Vines. Herbaceous Perennials, 
and Rockery, Bog, Water, and Insectivorous Plants in over 600 species and varieties. Single 
species are grown by tens of thousands. 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Abies 11 
Acer 20 
Ampelopsis 36 
Azaleas 21, 22 
Berberis 22 
Boxford Nursery Price- 
list 1-49 
Crataegus 25 
Cypripediums 39 
Deciduous Trees and 
Shrubs 20-35 
Erythroniums 40 
Evergreen and Conifer- 
ous Trees and Shrubs 
10-19 
Kerns, Hardy Native. .46 
PAGE 
40 
Galax 
I lerbaceous Perennials 
Boxford Nursery. 38-45 
Highlands Nursery . . 
.S5~ 5 7 
Highlands Nurse ry 
Price-list 50-59 
Iris 41 
Juniperus 12, 13 
Kalmias 9 
Landscape Department 
47-49 
I^eucothoe' 14 
Mlacs 33. 34 
Luies 41-44 
Mai us 27, 28 
PAGE 
Mountain Laurel, Col- 
lected — 
Boxford Nursery ... 9 
Highlands Nursery.. 59 
Orchids 39 
Picea 15 
Pinus 17 
Retinospora 18 
Rhododendron, Col- 
lected — 
Boxford Nursery. ... 9 
Highlands Nursery.. 
58. 59 
Rosa 29. 30 
Salix 30-32 
PAGE 
Sarracenias 44 
Short ia 45 
Stcnanthium 45 
Tilia 34 
Thuya 18 
Trilliums 45 
Trip to Highlands Nur- 
sery. 60 
Tsuga 19 
Vines and Climbing 
Plants 36, 37 
Vaccinium 34 
Viburnum 34 
Vitis 37 
Zanthorhiza 35 
Copyright, 1017, by Harlan P. Kelsey 
