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Title: Choice hardy trees, shrubs and plants for fall planting
Identifier: choicehardytrees1893kels (find matches)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, Fred W; F. W. Kelsey Nursery Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) New York Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Fred W. Kelsey
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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26 Fred'k W. Kelsey, 145 Broadway, New York.
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Group 01 Fine Named Rhododenuruns is Native Woods. M ilr. W. Bayard Cutting's West Brook Farm, Oakdale, Long Island. From Photograph. Copyriglitcd by Fred'k W. Kcls- y. RHODODENDRONS, comitiued. Good, first-class plants, about iS inches, some buds, $f)5 per 100 ; selected, ^75 per 100 ; extra(busby and well-budded), $.'^5 per 100 BEST HARDY SEEDLINGS. These are from the Catawbiense, hardiest and best strain of varieties and colors, and may be relied upon as entirely hardy, and most efiTeclive when large plantings are desired for general effect at low cost. First-class plants, iS to 24 inches ; well formed plants with buds. $50 per 100 ; selected, ;6o per 100; extra (very fine), S75 per 100. I400 to Ssoop^r 1,000. First-class plants, 12 to iS inches; well-formed plants, mostly with buds. I40 per 100; selected. $50 per 100 ; extra, $60 per 100. $300 to S400 per 1,000. Extra size specimen plants, about 3 feet and larger, $2.50 each and upwards, according to size and qu.Tntily. SPECIAL PRICES per 1,000, or in special quantities, on any of the above sizes given npoo application The following are the best of the really hardy varieties. These have been fully tested—even in thesqvere New England climate ^by Mr. H. H. Hunnewell at his beautiful groundat Wellesley. Mass.. and others having equally exposed locations —and can be relied upcn as the hardiest and best for planting in all the eastern and middle states : Bicolor. Ivosy pink ; fine in bloom and foliage. (kind\anum. Rosy crimson; excellent foliage. tine form and very abundant bloomer. Candidum. A good blush. Caractacu5. Rich purplish crimson ; fi n e bloom. foli,-ige and habit: one of the best. Charles Dickens. Dark scarlet; excellent foli- age and habit. Charleii Bag:ley. Cherry-red: fine truss and h.^bit Coriaceum. Pure white : dwarf, free blooming. Delicatis^imum. Blush-white, tinted pink. Album elegans. Blush, changing to white fine shape. Album Rrandiflorum. White and blush ; foli- .ige tine Alexander Dancer. Bright rose, lighter center: one of the linest. Archimedes. Bright rosy crimson, lighter cen- ter ; clear and good. AtrosanJ!:uineum. Intense blood-red. One o' the hardiest. Bacchus. Crimson, with enormous truss ; fine habit

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