KELSEYS HARDY AMERICAN RHODODENDRONS 
RHODODENDRON CATAWBIENSE. continued 
Unlike Rhododendron maximum, it is a very free-bloomer, with foliage of a dark, rich, 
lasting green, which never rusts. The trusses are a bright red-purple (in marked contrast to 
the muddy purple of the semi-hardy half-breed imported variety noted above), and as sent 
out by Highlands Nursery are always on their own roots. 
For massing to produce a broad-leaved 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. As a rich, finished border to plantations of the commoner Rhododendron 
maximum, the value of Rhododendron calawhiense cannot be o\-er-estii)iated. 
Do not compare our many-stemmed clumps with the single-stemmed, "bushy," 
half-hardy Rhododendrons offered by importers. There is no comparison. 
liach lo 100 
6 tog in $0 30 S2 50 $22 50 
1 to ii4 ft., clumps I 75 I7 00 125 00 
i>4to2 ft., clumps 2 50 22 50 200 00 
2 to 3 ft., clumps 3 SO 32 50 
3 to 4 ft., clumps 6 00 50 00 
4 to 5 ft., clumps 8 00 
3 to 6 ft., extra specimens, $8 to $15 each. 
RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM. The Great American Rosebay 
PERFECTLY HARDY IN THE LATITUDE OF QUEBEC 
Rhododendron maximum is without doubt the noblest of American broad-leaved 
shrubs. It is found growing sparingly in Xew' England and New York, more abundantly in 
the Penn.sylvania mountains, but reaching perfection only in the southern Alleghany Moun- 
tains, 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 July, 
the latest of all the Rhododendrons, greatly enhancing its ornamental value as a broad- 
leaved evergreen for finished landscape effect. 
Not even in Asia do Rhododendrons 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 
lavishness of growth and bloom, on the mountain-sides or hanging over the dashing ice-cold 
