PLEASE SEE PAGE 15 FOR LIST OF COLLECTED STOCK, WITH PRICES. 
4,000 FEET ELEVATION PRODUCES HARDY STOCK. 
CARD. 
_The HIGHLANDS NURSERY grows exclusively HARDY AMERICAN 
NATIVE PLANTS, both ornamental and economic, being the first and 
still the largest nursery of the kind in this country. It has introduced 
and disseminated throughout this and foreign countries the following 
beautiful trees and plants, entirely unknown before to cultivation : 
Tsuga caroliniana (Carolina Hemlock), Azalea vaseyi, Vacclnium 
hirsutum (Hairy Huckleberry), Prunus alleghenensis, Vacclnium 
erythrocarpon, Gaylussacia ursina (Buckberry), Diervilla sessilifolla 
(Yellow Mountain Honeysuckle), Robinia hispida rosea, Leiophyllum 
buxifolium var. prostratum (American Mountain Heath), Rhodo¬ 
dendron punctatum var. album, Lillum gray!, Shortla galacifolia, 
Polygonum cillnode (Buckwheat Vine), Trillium stylosum, Krigia 
dandelion var. montana (Mountain Dandelion), Aconitum recllnatum, 
Liatris spicata var. montana, Carex fraserl, Houstonia purpurea 
var. tenuifolia, Viola pedata alba, and the delicate little mountain 
Saxifraga leucanthemifolia, and others more largely of economic 
interest; while it has distributed many others which were formerly 
but rarely seen in cultivation, including Amelanchler botryaplum 
(Snowy Mespilus), Ilex monticola (Deciduous Holly), Magnolia 
fraserl, Azalea arborescens, and the "Great Flame-colored" Azalea 
calendulacea ; Clethra acuminata (Southern Pepper-bush), 
Hydrangea radiata (Silver-leaved Hydrangea), Leucothoe recurva, 
the very rare "American Camellia" Stuartia pentagyna, Vacclnium 
stamineum, Robinia viscosa, Xanthorrhiza apiifolla (Yellow Root), 
Abies fraserl (the true Southern Fraser’s Fir), Pinus pungens, Cyrilla 
racemiflora, Hypericum aureum, Chelone lyoni (Pink Snake Head), 
the rare and curious Dionaea muscipula (Venus' Fly-trap), Helonlas 
bullata, Dlcentra eximea, and the extremely fine ground-covering 
plant, Galax aphylla, as well as many others. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, 
. . . Proprietor . . . 
1106 Tremont Building, 
BOSTON, MASS. 
HIGHLANDS NURSERY 
Western North Carolina 
