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Harlan P. Kelsey, Owner, Salem, Mass 
18 to 24 in. 
-NANA, Dwarf Japanese Cvpress. 
8 in. 
12 to 15 in. 
PYGMAEA. 
Each 
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Per 100 
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.75 
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1.00 
8.50 
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RHODODENDRONS 
RHODODENDRON ARBUTIFOLIUM. Dwarf Rhododendron. 
8 to 10 in. 75 6.00 
CAROL!NlANUM (PUNCTATUM), Small or Early Flowering' 
Rhododrendon. 
The smallest Alleghanian species, though it often attains a 
height of 15 feet and is wide spreading. A very graceful shrub, 
with totally different aspect from the two species preceding. 
Leaves dark green, usually blunt and narrow, covered with 
rusty dots below, much smaller than either maximum or 
catawbiense. Flower-clusters appear in greatest profusion in 
June, covering the plant with a rose-colored mantle. Fine for 
rocky slopes or hillsides, standing exposure unusually 
well, and invaluable as a single specimen or for massing with 
the other species. 
Until this year we have been sending this beautiful and rare 
species out under the name of punctatum. Prof. Sargent has 
recently called attention to the fact that it is a distinct species 
from the punctatum, differing in time of bloom, with more 
showy and profuse flowers, and making a much larger and 
finer plant than the punctatum. 
It is now known as Rhododendron carollnlanum, being de¬ 
scribed and named by Alfred Rehder, Arnold Arboretum, Ja¬ 
maica Plain, Mass. 
9 
9 
1 
2 
CATAWBIENSE, OF THE CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. 
to 
12 
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50.00 
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12 
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. 1.50 
12.50 
100.00 
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clumps, . 
. 2.00 
17.50 
150.00 
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ft. 
clumps. 
. 3.50 
32.50 
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3 
ft. 
clumps, . 
. 6.00 
50.00 
It is this inagnhicent Rhododendron that over a hundred years 
ago was introduced into Europe, supplying, together with 
Rhododendron maximum and R. punctatum, color and hardy 
blood to the cultivated "hybrids/’ but with a consequent loss 
of hardiness; and so today, for American gardens where iron¬ 
clad hardiness is essential, we must turn to the true original 
species, found on the loftiest, coldest peaks of the Southern 
Alleghanles, where It attains a height of 20 to 30 feet. 
Considering the extreme hardiness, color of flower, compact 
growth and remarkable texture of foliage, which is a deep, 
shining green, and far superior to the better-known Rhododen¬ 
dron maximum, we can recommend the true native catawbiense 
as the llnest for general use, withstanding exposure and ex¬ 
tremes of temperature where other Rhododendrons fail. 
Do not confuse this true species, which is absolutely hardy, 
with the common so-called catawbiense hybrid seedling so 
freely imported from Europe, which Is at best half-hardy, and 
oven when branched above is a single stem, showing bareness 
underneath for years. 
Unlike Rhododendron maximum, it is a very free bloomer, 
with foliage of a dark, rich, lasting green, which never rusts. 
The trusses are a bright red-purple (in marked contrast to 
the muddy purple of the semi-hardy half-breed imported varie¬ 
ty noted above), and as sent out by Highlands Nursery are 
always on their own roots. 
For massing to produce a broad-leaved evergreen landscape 
effect, there is no plant equal to It in the latitude of the North¬ 
ern United States and Canada, where strictly hardy plants 
must be employed. As a rich, finished border to plantations 
of the commoner Rhododendron maximum and Kalmia latlfolla, 
the value of Rhododendron catawbiense cannot be overesti¬ 
mated. 
