Please Observe^^ 
Packing' charged at cost only. 
Delivery at our depot, Cranberry, Pi. C M free. 
DISCOUNTS. Special for cash with order, 5 per cent. On orders of $25, 
5 per cent.; $50, 7 percent.; $100, 10 per cent.; S200, 12 per cent.; $500, 15 percent. 
Five plants of a kind at 10 rates, 50 at 100 rates, 500 at 1,000 rates. 
ASHBVILLE, X. C, is our Money Order office. 
FOREIGN REMITTANCES. Send by International Postal Money 
Order drawn on Asheville, N. C, by New York Exchange or by Cheque 
Bank Check. 
CLAIMS made immediately on receipt of goods will meet with prompt recogni- 
tion, and be adjusted if our error. All shipments travel at consignee's risk. 
" COLLECTED PLANTS" are those carefully lifted from open woods, 
and usually trimmed before shipping. Our true line is in furnishing strong nursery- 
grown stock, but to meet a demand for very cheap stock, we have carefully prepared a 
schedule, and a glance shows the price of collected or nursery-grown. Please 
order accordingly. 
WE SHIP usually from October 1 to December 1, and from March 1 to May 1; 
often all through the winter if mild. (Please order early.) 
OUR SHIPMENTS extend over the world, and our packing is, we think, as 
nearly perfect as is possible. Large frost-proof Cellar, Packing House and Sheds 
facilitate prompt shipments. 
How to Grow American Wild Plants and Flowers. 
As a rule, give them the same treatment you would bestow on a choice Rose bush 
or other garden plant — that is, plant in a rich, loamy roil and give clean cultivation, at 
least until well established. Do not expect a clump of Rhododendrons or Azaleas, or a 
border of hardy herbaceous flowers, to flourish and blossom stuck in a sun-burnt clay 
bank, and left to the tender mercies of nature and live stock, any more than you would 
hope for a fine display from Roses, Fuchsias or Gladiolus under similar conditions. At the 
same time, the majority of our wild plants do not need any special treatment, and while 
they richly repay all extra attention and care given them, nurserymen and planters 
generally find that they will flourish planted along with their general collection of 
ornamental stock and receiving the same care. Some of the Ericaceae, however, 
including the Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Kalmias, require for their best development 
a rich, loose, peaty soil, well drained, but affording abundant moisture, either by shade, 
mulching or other means, thus keeping the soil cool. 
In planting, excavate 2 feet of the soil and fill in with surface loam and decayed 
leaf mold, sods or other decayed vegetable matter, adding a tenth or more of sharp sand. 
A liberal proportion of well-rotted stable manure is most excellent in preparing the soil. 
Our Stock is Hardy. 
The Highlands Nursery is elevated 3,800 feet above the sea level, on the crest of the 
Carolina Mountains — this extreme altitude insuring long, cool summers, and, as a rule, 
moderate winters. However, we have enough severe cold to fully harden up our stock, 
and buyers will find everything as hardy as that grown in middle or northern New York. 
Last winter all our plants stood without injury 20 degrees below zero, and 8 to 10 below 
is not at all unusual. 
