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A trip to Highlands Nursery 
and the High Carolina Mts. 
To tlie botanist or the lover of wild lundstMpe 
bt^mty there is prrhai)S no spot in the ejisteru 
United States tliut appeals more strongly lliau 
the liiah Carolina Mountain refirion, with its 
wealth of rare flora and sublime mountain peaks 
and ranges, reaching an extreme elevation of 
6,600 feet. Right in the heart of these liigh 
mountains, at 3.800 feet elevation, is located the 
Highlands Nursery, a unique estahlishnient 
started over 20 years ago to grow liie hardiest 
of our choice native Rhododendrons. Azaleas and 
other lieautiful native trees, shrubs and flowers 
that grow hero in avariety and profusion entirely 
nnkuown elsewhere in America. Many visitors 
come from parts of the North just to see our 
Nursery, but we want ten to come where now one 
comes, and can assure you that a ride to the toj) 
of Grandfather Mountain is alone worth the trip. 
HOW TO COME 
Higlilands Nursery is not inactressible. The 
iM'st way is to buy an excursion ticket from any 
largo city to Cranberry, N. C, via Johnson City, 
Tenn. At Johnson tMty you leave the "liroad- 
gaugo" Southern Railway and take a "narrow- 
gauge" train up through tlie wild "Doe Gorge" 
to Cranberry, where after dinner you board the 
Linville River Railway train, hau]c<l liy a Shay " 
locomotive, for the terminus, Pineola, N. 
freight station, arriving perhaps an hiuir and a 
half 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 yon to come. 
At Pineola Station (Saginaw. N. C. p"st- 
ollice) we meet you with a carriage if notified in 
advajice, and aid you in mapping out any trip 
you may wish to take through the mountains. 
There are good inns at Pineola and Linville. but a 
short 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. Bo-ston, Mass. 
Proprietor Highlands Nursery in the Carolina 
Mountains 
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I. Linville River Railway. " Mised " train hauled by a K^ared locomotive. 
3. Tunnel in " TJoe Gorge," on narrow-yaiige railroad to HiylitaiKls Nursery. 
3. Selling homemade souvenir Iwskets to ixissenyers. 
4. Cranlierry, N. C, iron mines, 3.aoo feet elevation in the dreat Smoky 
Mountains. 
5. Estimatinu poplar l)Iocks. used in the manufacture of wooden ixjwls. 
6. Linville River Railway. Nursery stock, luml>cr and passengers. 
7. The mountain laskct-weaver. 
8. C.randf^ither Mountain (nearly 6.000 feet) and Grandmother Mountain 
(5.000 feet) from a point aliovc Highlands Nurser>'. 
9. You pass many mountain waterfalls on your w-ay to Highlands Nursery 
10. Camping parly picking hut:klel>crries on " Rough Kidgc." 
11. lisseola Inn, from iJoiiald's Crag, two miles from Highlands Nursery. 
12. Picnicking on Linville river at 3,800 feet elevation. 
13. Seedlings and see<t-V>e<ls at Highlands Nursery. 
14. Single ST>ccimens of Kho<lo<lendron and KalmLi growing by lens of thou- 
san(l<t in Highlands Nurser>-. 
15. Shelter Ix-ll of Abifs frnseri .it Highlands Nursery. 
16. A &ntall comer of Highlands Nursery. 
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