WHERE KELSEY’S HARDY AMERICAN PLANTS ARE GROWN 
The true Rhododendron catawbiense growing wild at 5.009 clevation f western North Carolina. 
Mt. Mitchell. 6,600 feet, the highest point east of the Rockies in the distance. 
This is the hardy parent of the hardiest named catawbiense hybrids. R. ponticum, the other 
parent, is not hardy. My R. catawbiense true species is therefore entirely hardy as far north as the latitude 
of Ottawa, Canada. R. maximum and my new, rare R. carolinianum, coming from the same altitudes as 
R. catawbiense, are also absolutely hardy. 
American Native Plants At Last 
Appreciated By Americans 
The story is interesting. Nearly thirty years ago in the high Carolina mountains, where Nature 
has lavished a marvelous flora the like of which is unknown elsewhere in America, we started a small 
nursery of a bare half-acre. The dainty Azalea vaseyi and that most beautiful and rare of all Amer¬ 
ican evergreens, Tsuga caroliniana, had just been discovered, and these, with a meager fifteen 
other species, were our first offerings. Europeans eagerly seized the opportunity to use and enjoy 
what they considered the choicest of the world’s plant productions. But not so the Americans. 
The craze for “exotics” was at its height and nothing “American” was popular. 
It is nowall changed; our decades of persistent labor and advertising and the bitter experiences 
of Americans through the use of unsuitable foreign material are now reaping a just reward. 
WORTH-WHILE RESULTS 
We feel justly proud of the work we have accomplished in making our Native Plants known and 
used; where a few years ago they were almost entirely excluded from American parks, lawns, and 
gardens, they are now planted by hundreds of thousands, and appreciated and enjoyed as never 
before. Each year sees them better known, more widely planted, and more loved by those to whom 
natural rather than exotic effects appeal, and who desire permanent finished planting rather than 
the unfortunate replanting continually required where the so-called “cultivated” plants are used 
exclusively. 
FROM A HALF-ACRE BEGINNING 
We have grown into two large nurseries, hundreds of acres in extent, and producing literally 
millions of our choicest Hardy American Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Ferns, Vines, Herbaceous Perennials, 
and Rockery, Bog, Water, and Insectivorous Plants in over 600 species and varieties. Single 
species are grown by tens of thousands. 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Abies.11 
Acer.20 
Atnpelopsis.36 
Azaleas.21, 22 
Berberls. .22 
Boxford Nursery Price¬ 
list.1-40 
Cmtiegus.25 
Cypripediums.39 
Deciduous Trees and 
Shrubs.20-35 
Krythroniums.40 
Evergreen and Conifer¬ 
ous Trees and Shrubs 
10-19 
Ferns, Hardy Native. .46 
PAGE 
Galax.40 
Herbaceous Perennials 
Boxford Nursery.38-45 
Highlands Nursery.. 
55 _ 57 
11 ighlands Nursery 
Price-list.50-59 
Iris..11 
Junipcrus.12, 13 
Kalinins. 9 
Landscape Department 
f , .. 47-49 
Leucothol*.14 
Lilacs. 33 . 34 
Lilies.41-44 
Malus.27, 28 
PAGE 
Mountain Laurel, Col¬ 
lected— 
Boxford Nursery ... 9 
Highlands Nursery ..59 
Orchids. 39 
Picea.15 
Pinus.17 
Rctinospora.18 
Rhododendron, Col¬ 
lected— 
Boxford Nursery.... 9 
Highlands Nursery.. 
58 . 59 
Rosa.29, 30 
Salix.30-32 
Sarracenias.. 
PAGE 
. 44 
Shortia. 
. 45 
Stenanthium 
. 45 
Tilia. 
Thuya. 
.18 
Trilliums.... 
. 45 
Trip to Highlands Nur- 
sery. 
.60 
Tsuga. 
. 19 
Vines and 
Climbing 
Plants. 
.36. 37 
Vaccinium... 
. 34 
Viburnum... 
. 34 
Vitis. 
. 37 
Zanthorhiza. 
. 35 
Copyright, 1917, by Harlan P, Kelsey 
