KELSEY'S HARDY AMERICAN RHODODENDRONS 
RHODODENDRON CATAWBIENSE. continued 
Unlike Rhododendron maximum^ it is a very frcc-bloomer, with foliage of a dark, rich, 
lasting green, which never rusts. The trusses arc a bright rcd-purplc tin nuirkcd contrast to 
the muddy purple of the senii-hardy half-breed imported variety noted above), and as sent 
out by Highlands Nursery arc always on their own roots. 
For massing to produce a broad-leaved evergreen landscape elTect, 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 plantations of the commoner Rhododendron 
maximum^ the value of Rhododendron cataivbiense cannot be over-estimated. 
Do not compare our many-stemmed clumps with the single-stemmed, “bushy,” 
half-hardy Rhododendrons offered by importers. There is no comparison. 
Each lo 100 
3 
4 
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to 9 in. 
to 1I2 ft., clumps. 
to 2 ft., clumps. 
to 3 ft., clumps. 
to 4 ft., clumps. 
to 5 ft., clumps. 
to 6 ft., e.xtra specimens. 58 to 5 i 5 each. 
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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 sparingly in New England and New York, more abundantly in 
the Pennsylvania mountains, but reaching perfection only in the southern Alleghany Moun¬ 
tains, where it grows in such lu.xuriancc as to form a striking feature in the mountain 
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 ev'^ergreen for finished landscape effect. 
Not even in Asia do Rhododendrons grow more luxuriant ly tlian in our southern Alleghany 
Mountains, where they attain 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 
