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Title: Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, aquatics and bog plants
Identifier: descriptivecatal1892kels (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, Harlan P; Harlan P. Kelsey (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Linville, N. C. : Harlan P. 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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8 CATALOGUE OP THE HIGHLANDS NURSERY,
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15 25 1 50 2 50 30 3 00 1 50 2 50 'Each. Doz DIRCA palustris (Leatherwood). This is a low branching shrub, with light yel- low flowers appearing before the leaves, which are about 2 inches long and silky when young, i to 2 feet fo 25 $2 00 GAYLUSSACIA ursina (Buckberry). The fruit of this " huckleberry " is very tart, and used for making jellies and preserves. Flowers bell-shaped, incon- spicuous. I to 2 feet, $6 per 100 GELSEMIUM sempervirens (Carolina Yellow Jessamine). "Not cultivated to the extent it deserves. Will grow in any land, rich or poor, wet or dry ; quick growing and for several weeks in the spring literally covered with its lovely â fragrant yellow flowers. One of the best of our hardy climbers."âReasoner Bros. Strong plants HALESIA tetraptera. See under Trees. HAMAMELIS Virginica (Witch Hazel). A large and peculiar shrub, its yellow ribboned flowers appearing tlu last tiling in the fall, or in early winter, just as the leaves are dropping. The foliage is fine and changes to a full yellow in au- tumn. A very desirable plant, and no other can be found to fill its place in ornamental gardening, i foot 20 2 feet 30 HIBISCUS aculeatus (Rose. Mallow). This shrubby Hibiscus makes a conspicu- ous plant with its compact growth and lobed leaves. Bears large showy yel- low flowers, four inches in diameter, with a purple center. 6 to 12 inches . . HYDRANGEA radiata (Wild Hydrangea). Quite a handsome plant, forming clumps 4 to 8 feet high. It has large, rounding, sharply-serrate leaves, dark green above and silvery-white on the under surface. Fastigiate cymes, with the ray flowers large, but comparatively few. Perfectly hardy, i to 2 feet. 15 2 to 3 feet 25 H. quercifolia (Oak-leaved Hydrangea). A beautiful foliage plant with large oak-shaped leaves, woolly underneath, and cream colored flowers in August. The latter turn a fine purple late in the season 30 LEUCOTHOE recurva. One of the finest of all our native shrubs. The yearly shoots are bright red, and beautifully contrasted with the old growths, which have taken on a dull gray color ; this, together with its drooping branches, and very beautiful racemes of white or pink bell-shaped flowers, which are borne on curving stems, combine in giving the whole plant a truly ex- quisite and attractive appearance ; strong 25 MENZIESIA globularis (Menziesia). A smooth shrub, four to eight feet high, with reddish bark and small nodding pink white flowers in terminal clusters, i to 2 feet . . 20 2 to 3 feet 30 PYRUS arbutifolia (Chokeberry). One of our most desirable ornamental shrubs, being conspicuous in fo- liage as well as in flower and fruit. Grows 2 to 4 feet high, bearing blossoms in compound corymbs, and, later on, black sweetish ber- ries in large drooping clusters. The leaves are dark green and shin- ing above, and pale on the under side 20 P. erythrocarpa (Tall Chokeberry). A large variety of the Arbutifolia, often 15 to 20 feet high, with larger leaves and red berries, i to 2 feet. 20 RHODODENDRON (Azalea) Vaseyi. (Seecut, page 10.) A beautiful and valuable addition to our ornamental native flora. Discovered in 1878 among the mountains in Jackson county, this state, by Mr. George Vasey, and is yet rare. The plant is of erect, somewhat slender habit, with deciduous foliage and flowers varying from light pink to deep 50 50 I 50 CLETHRA ALNiFOLi.'V. (See*page 7.

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