EVERGREENS FOR AUGUST PLANTING 
RHODODENDRON maximum. Great American Rosebay. 
Perfeclly hardy in the latilude of Quebec. 
Rhododendron maximum is without doubt the noblest of American broadleaf shrubs. It 
is found growing sparingly in New England and New York, more abundantly in the Pennsylvania 
mountains, but reaching perfection only in the high, cold Southern Alleghany Mountains, where 
it grows in such luxuriance as to 
form a striking feature in the 
mountain landscape. Its large, 
waxy white, or delicately pink 
flowers appear in large trusses in 
late June and July, the latest of all 
the Rhododendrons, greatly en- 
hancing its ornamental value as a 
broadleaf evergreen for finished 
landscape effect. 
Not even in Asia do Rhodo- 
dendrons grow more luxuriantly 
than in our Southern Alleghany 
Mountains, where they attain a 
height of 30 feet or more. They 
must be seen in their native lavish- 
ness of growth and bloom on the 
mountainsides or hanging over the 
dashing ice-cold streams and water- 
falls, to be properly appreciated, 
and a trip to the high Carolina 
mountains in spring and early sum- 
mer is a never-to-be-forgotten series 
of joys to the lover of nature. My 
stock is direct from its native 
habitat. 
RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM. Typical flower cluster 
KALMIA latifolia. Mountain 
Laurel. 
One of the grandest of our na- 
tive broadleaf evergreen shrubs, 
attaining tree-like proportions in 
our Southern mountains. In culti- 
vation it is a broad, thick shrub, 
and, when in full bloom, of sur- 
passing beauty. The wheel-shaped 
flowers in close terminal corymbs, 
pure white to pink, appear in May 
or June in such profusion as almost 
to smother the foliage. Its thick, 
shining leaves, conspicuous the year 
round, make it a shrub of greatest 
value for massing. The hardiness 
of Kalmia latifolia is beyond doubt, 
it being found sparingly in Nova 
Scotia, and increasingly in abun- 
dance through New England and 
the middle Atlantic states (particu- 
larly in the higher altitudes), till 
the crest of the Southern Alleghanies 
is reached. 
MOUNTAIN LAUREL 
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