KELSEY’S 
HARDY SPECIMEN 
EVERGREENS 
Catalog of BOXFORD NURSERY 
EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS (continued) 
fluent loss of hardiness; and so today, for American gardens, 
where ironclad hardiness is essential, we must turn to the 
true original species, found on the loftiest, coldest peaks of 
the southern Alleghanies, where it attains a height of 20 to 
30 feet. 
Considering the extreme hardiness, color of flower, com¬ 
pact growth and remarkable texture of foliage, which is a 
deep, shining green, and far superior to the bettor-known 
Rhododendron maximum, we can recommend the true native 
catawbiense as the iinest for general use, withstanding ex¬ 
posure and extremes of temperature where other Rhododen¬ 
drons 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 even 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 
variety noted above), and as sent out by Highlands Nursery 
is always on its own roots. 
For massing to produce a broad-leaved evergreen land¬ 
scape effect, there is no plant equal to it in the latitude of 
the northern United States and Canada, where strictly hardy 
plants must be employed. As a rich, finished border to plan¬ 
tations of the commoner Rhododendron maximum, the value 
of Rhododendron catawbiense cannot be overestimated. 
Do not compare our many-stemmed clumps with the single¬ 
stemmed, “bushy”, half-hardy Rhododendrons offered by im¬ 
porters. There is no comparison. 
Each 
10 
100 
3 
to 
G in. 
30 
2 00 
18 
00 
6 
to 
9 in. 
3 00 
25 
00 
9 
to 
12 in. 
50 
4 00 
35 
00 
1 
to 
ft. clumps . 
.. 1 75 
17 00 
125 
00 
1% to 2 ft. clumps .. 
.. 2 50 
22 50 
200 
00 
2 
to 
3 ft. clumps- 
.. 3 50 
32 50 
300 
00 
3 
to 
4 ft. clumps .... 
.. 5 00 
45 00 
425 
00 
4 
to 
5 ft. clumps_ 
.. 8 00 
75 00 
5 
to 
G ft. clumps_ 
.. 12 00 
Special selection at special prices. 
Catawbiense hybrids. Hardiest varieties, including the 
following: 
Album elegans, Anna Parsons, caractacus, catawbiense al¬ 
ba, everestianum, General Grant, Mrs. Milner, President 
Lincoln, Parsons’ Gloriosa, purpureum elegans, roseum ele¬ 
gans and others, according to size and selection, $1 to $1 each. 
RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM 
The Great American Rosebay 
Perfectly Hardy in the Latitude of Quebec 
Rhododendron maximum is, without doubt, the noblest of 
American broad-leaved shrubs. It is found growing spar¬ 
ingly in New England and New York, more abundantly in 
the Pennsylvania mountains, but reaching perfection only 
In the southern Alleghany Mountains, where it grows In 
such luxuriance as to form a striking feature in the moun¬ 
tain landscape. Its large, waxy white or delicately pink 
flowers appear in large trusses in July, the latest of all the 
Rhododendrons, greatly enhancing Its ornamental value as a 
broad-leaved evergreen for finished landscape effect. 
Not even in Asia do Rhododendrons grow more luxuriantly 
than in our southern Alleghany Mountains, where they at¬ 
tain a height of 30 feet or more. They must be seen In their 
native lavishness of growth and bloom, on the mountain¬ 
sides or hanging over the dashing, ice-cold streams and 
waterfalls, to be properly appreciated, and a trip to the high 
Carolina mountains in spring and early summer is a never- 
to-be-forgotten series of joys to the lover of nature. 
Each 
10 
100 1,000 
6 to 12 in. 
25 
2 00 
17 50 
1 to 1% ft. 
40 
3 00 
25 00 
Ii4 to 2 ft . 
75 
G 00 
50 00 
2 to 3 ft. 
1 00 
9 00 
80 00 
6 to 12 in clumps. 
80 
7 00 
65 00 
1 to 1^4 ft. clumps. 
1 00 
9 00 
80 00 
1% to 2 ft. clumps ... 
1 75 
15 00 
125 00 
2 to 3 ft. clumps .... 
2 50 
22 50 
f 
3 to 4 ft. clumps . 
4 00 
37 50 
* 
4 to 6 ft specimens,55 to 10 00 
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