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AMERICA'S MOST BEAUTIFUL NATIVE SHRUBS 
COLLECTING 
Plants shipped direct from their native habitat are sold as collected plants. 
We have been engaged in the collecting of native Rhododendrons, Azaleas and 
Kalmias for the past 29 years, and our four nurseries are the outgrowth of our 
activities as collectors. 
Collected plants are now chiefly used for naturalistic effects usually at¬ 
tained by massing or grouping. They are recommended for extensive develop¬ 
ments but not for foundation plantings or the more formal effects. Rhododen¬ 
dron maximum and Kalmia latifolia as collected plants are more apt to prove 
satisfactory than any of the other varieties, due to the fact that they tend natur¬ 
ally to grow compact. The other varieties run to legginess and also suffer more 
from the transplantings. 
During the early days of our collecting work we secured our collected 
plants in the mountains of Pennsylvania and New York but the necessity for 
virgin fields took us to the Virginias and North Carolina where our shipments 
now originate. Collected plants are sold in carload lots only and annually we 
make extensive shipments to a desirable patronage among leading ornamental 
nurseries, landscape architects, private estate owners, parks and cemeteries. 
Pamphlet giving prices and information on collected plants will be mailed 
on request. 
Rhododendron maximum in bloom 
