A trip to Highlands Nursery 
and the High Carolina Mts. 
To the botjuiist or the lover of wild landscape 
beauty there is perhaps no spot in ihe eastern 
United .Slates that appeals more strongly than 
the high Carolina Alountain region, with its 
wealth of rare tlora and sublime mountain peaks 
and ranges, reaehing an extreme elevation of 
6,600 feet. Right in the heart of these hifch 
mountains, at 8.800 feet elevation, is located the 
Highlands Nursery, a unique establislnneiit 
started over 20 years ago to grow the hardiest 
of our choice native Rhododendrons, Azaleas and 
other beautiftil native trees, shrubs and flowers 
that growhere in avariety and profusion entirely 
unknown elsewhere in America. Many visitors 
com© from parts of the North jnst to see our 
Nursery, but wo want ten to come whei"e now one 
comes, and can assure you that n ride to the top 
of Grandfather Mountain is alone worth the trip. 
HOW TO COME 
Highlands Nursery is not inaccessible. Tlie 
best way is to buy an excursion ticket from any 
large city to Cranberry, N. C, via Johnson City, 
Tenn. At Johnson City you leave the "liroad- 
gaugo" Southern Railway and take a "narrow- 
gauge" train up through tiie wild "Doe Gorge" 
to Cranberry, where after dinner you board the 
Ijinville Kiver Railway train, hauled by a "Shay" 
locomotive, for the terminus. Pineola, N. C, 
freight station, arriving perhaps an hour and a 
lialf later. We have pictured a very few of the 
interesting scenes along the route, not forget- 
ting a bit or two of our Nursery, for, after all, 
tha is our main reason for wanting you to come. 
At Pineola Station (Saginaw. N. C. post- 
office) we meet you with a carriage if notified in 
advance, and aid you in mapping out any trip 
you may wish to take througli the mountains. 
There are good inns ut IMneoIaand Linville. but a 
slmrt distance from Highlands Nursery. Fuller 
information in advance will be gladly given to 
those interested. Please write direct to 
HARLAN P. KELSEY 
6 Beacon Street. Boston, Mass. 
Proprietor Highlands Nursery in the Carolina 
Mountains 
1. Linville River Railsvay. " Mixed " train h.niled by a geared locomorive. 
a. Tunnel in " Doe Gorge," on narrow-naiine railnvid to Hialiliin<l>i NiirstTv. 
3. Se1lin>; liunieniade souvenir l>a.skels to passeniH-TS. 
4. Crant>erTy, N. C., iron mines. 3.200 feet elevation in the (ireat Smoky 
>lountatns. 
5. nstimating iHiplar blocks, used In the manufacture of wooden l>owIs. 
6. Ltnville Kiver Railway. Nursery stock. lunil>er and iKissenccrs 
7. 'I'he mountain Iwsket- weaver, 
8. C.randfather Mountain (nearly 6.ooi> feet) and Gr.induiothcr Mountain 
(5,000 feet) from a point above Hijfhlands Nursery. 
Vou pass many mountain waterfalls on your way to I li;;lilands Nursery 
Campini; piirly picking; hut kletierries on " Kou^h Kidye. " 
Esseola Inn. from Donald's Cray, two uiiles from IHtfhlands Nursery. 
Panicking on LinviUe river at 3.8v«) feet elevation. 
Sce<llings and seed-l>cds at Ilijjlilands Nursery. 
Single specimens of Rhododendron and Kalniia growing by tens of thou- 
sands in Highlands Nursery. 
Shelter l>elt of .l&ifs fraseri at Highlands Nnrscry. 
. A small coraer of iliiflilands Nursery. 
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