HARLAN P. KELSEY, owner. SALEM, MASS. 
Kelsey’s Hardy American Rhododendrons 
and Mountain Laurel 
Prices are for heavy, nursery-grown stock, f.o.b. cars at Boxlord Nursery, Boxford, Mass. 
All plants, except rarely the smallest sizes under i foot, are balled and burlaped separately. 
Use hardy American Lilies, Trilliums and other bulbs as “fillers” and “edging” for the 
Rhododendron bed. A special bulb list is ready, and will be freely sent. 
RHODODENDRON CAROLINIANUM (New Species) 
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 other Rhododendrons. 
Leaves dark green, usually blunt and narrow, covered with rusty dots below, much smaller than 
either maximum or cataw- 
biense. Flower-clusters ap¬ 
pear 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. 
Professor Sargent has re¬ 
cently called attention to 
the fact that it is a distinct 
species from the punctatum, 
differing in time of bloom 
with more sho\\y and profuse 
flowers and making a much 
larger and finer plant than 
the pimctatum. 
It is now known as Rho¬ 
dodendron carolinianum, 
being described and named 
by Alfred Rehdcr, Arnold 
Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, 
Mass. 
Rhododendron carolinianum. New. The best dwarf species 
6 too in. 
9 to 12 in. 
9 to 12 in., cluinp.s 
1 to IJ/j It., ('lumps 
lyi to 2 It., chimps. 
2 to,} ft., clumps. 
3 to *1 ft., clumps. 
Each 
10 
lOO 
So 50 
$4 
00 
S30 
00 
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6 
00 
50 
00 
. I 50 
12 
50 
100 
00 
. 2 00 
17 
50 
150 
00 
. 3 50 
32 
50 
. 6 00 
. 10 00 
50 
00 
RHODODENDRON CATAWBIENSE of the Carolina Mountains 
THE HARDIEST OF ALL RHODODENDRONS 
It was this magnificent Khadodendron that over a hundred years ago was introduced 
into iMirope, supplying, together with Rhododendron maximiun and R. punctahun, color and 
Iiardy blood to the cultivated “hybrids,” but with a consequent 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 Allcghanies, where it 
attains a height of 20 to 30 feet. 
Considering the extreme hardiness, color of flower, compact growth and remarkable 
texture of foliage, wliich is a deep, shining green, and far superior to the better-known Rhodo- 
dendron maximum, we can recommend the true native catawbiense as the finest for general 
use, withstanding exposure and extremes of temperature where other Rhododendrons fail. 
Do not confuse this true species, which is absolutely hardy, with the common so-called 
catawbiense hybrid seedlings 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. 
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