EVERGREENS FOR AUGUST PLANTING 
temperature where other Rhododendrons fail. Unlike Rhododendron maximum, it is a very 
free bloomer, with foliage of a dark, rich, lasting green. The trusses are a bright red-purple (in 
marked contrast to the muddy purple of the semi-hardy, half-breed imported variety), and as 
sent out by Boxford Nursery is always on its own roots. For massing to produce a broadleaf 
evergreen landscape effect there is no plant equal to it in the latitude of the Northern United States 
and Canada, where strictly hardy plants must be employed. 
The true RHODODENDRON CATAWBIENSE. Red-purple 
The finest foliaged of all Rhododendrons 
RHODODENDRON catawbiense var. compacta. 
New introduction of Harlan P. 
Kelsey. A very compact-growing 
form from the highest peaks of the 
Southern Alleghany Mountains, with 
dark-green foliage, entirely distinct 
from the catawbiense type in usual 
cultivation. We offer this for the first 
lime in perfect specimens. 
catawbiense hybrids. 
We have only the hardiest sorts. 
They are becoming difficult to secure, 
owing to Federal Quarantine regula- 
tions shutting out all foreign-grown 
stock. 
Typical clump of RHODODENDRON CATAWBIENSE 
var. cotnpacta. 
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