IN ORDERING, PLEASE NOTICE THE FOLLOWING : 
PRICES herein abrogate all previous quotations, and include packing and delivery 
at our depot, Cranberry, N. C. 
TERMS : All bills are due on receipt of goods, excepting special agreements. Un- 
known customers should send cash or satisfactory reference. 
DISCOUNTS : Where cash accompanies the order a special discount of 5 per cent, 
may be deducted from the amount. On orders amounting to $25, five per cent. ; on orders 
amounting to $50, seven per cent. ; on orders amounting to $100, ten per cent.; on orders 
amounting to $200, fifteen per cent. Five plants of a kind at 10 rates, twenty-five at 100 
rates and five hundred at 1,000 rates. 
FOREIGN REMITTANCES should be made by International Post Office Money 
Order, payable at Asheville, N. C. ; by New York Exchange, or by Cheque Bank Cheque. 
CLAIMS must be made immediately upon receipt of plants, when any error on our 
part will be gladly rectified. 
PLANTS marked " col." are lifted carefully from open woods and trimmed before 
shipping. All others are nursery grown. 
Special Rates Riven 011 very large orders. 
A LITTLE READING. 
To those who examine this catalogue with a view to business or otherwise, and 
especially to nurserymen, florists, park and cemetery superintendents, and planters 
generally, we would like to say a few words which may prove of interest. 
It is a well-known fact that till within the last few years American parks, gardens, 
cemeteries, lawns and other grounds have been stuffed to overflowing with importations 
from foreign lands to the almost entire exclusion of our beautiful native ornamentals — 
a class comprising an unrivaled wealth of grand and stately trees magnificent flowering 
shrubs, and an unparalleled profusion of fine herbaceous plants and showy climbers ; 
while the beautiful and manifold forms of terrestrial orchids and great variety of deli- 
cate and graceful ferns are beyond comparison. 
Nurserymen's lists have catalogued but few of these "wild plants," and landscape 
gardeners were cautious about bringing them prominently into their plans for parks and 
private grounds — which would but cater to the perverted tastes of an American people. 
Had the nurseryman filled his nursery rows with native plants, his trade would have 
been extremely dull, and had the gardener used them conspicuously in his planting of 
public grounds and private lawns, he would have had but little call for his services. 
But it is a pleasure to note the decided reaction that is taking place, and year after 
year we see a rapidly growing demand for " natives " by a plant-loving public ; in fact, 
many of the newer public and private parks and pleasure grounds have a predominance 
of native plants in their make-up. 
Further, some of the best horticultural journals of the country are devoting much of 
their space to the popularizing of the subject, and it is only a matter of a short time 
when American plants will be used and appreciated in America as they should be. "We 
want every private pleasure-ground in which our wild blooms once grew, to become 
familiar with their lovely presence again ; we want to see them in our parks and squares, 
native flowers overshaded by the swaying arch of native oaks and elms." To be up to the 
times, nurserymen and florists muft now catalogue at least a partial list of these plants, 
and landscape architects and superintendents must use them extensively. 
For seven years the Highlands Nursery has been growing and pushing forward 
native plants exclusively, and it is extremely gratifying to us to be made aware of the 
rapidly increasing demand for them, especially the past two seasons. We anticipate for 
the coming season, however, much larger sales than before, and have prepared for it by 
putting in an exceedingly large and fine stock, to which constant additions are being 
made, while our prices are as low as is possibly consistent with good stock. 
The location of Highlands Nursery, at the summit of the Blue Ridge in northwest- 
ern North Carolina, at an altitude of nearly 4,000 feet, insures long, cool summers and 
moderate winters, which is very favorable to the growth of these beautiful native trees, 
shrubs and herbaceous plants, and produces a hardy stock — an important point to be 
taken into careful consideration by northern planters. While we confine ourselves 
principally to the plants indigenous to the Southern Alleghany region, still we collect all 
over the Southern States, and shall be glad to give information as to any plants not 
found in this catalogue. All correspondence will be carefully and promptly answered. 
Address, HARLAN P. KELSEY, 
Highlands Nursery. Linville, Nowh Carolina, U. S. A. 
