. 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. Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Fref^itory. PRESENTING for ihe season of iSgi-'ga our Seventh Annual Cata- logue of Native Trees, Shrubs and Flowering Plants of the Southern Al- leghany mountains, we take great pleasure in being able to offer to our patrons a much larger and better selected list than ever before, of these b
. 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. Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Fref^itory. PRESENTING for ihe season of iSgi-'ga our Seventh Annual Cata- logue of Native Trees, Shrubs and Flowering Plants of the Southern Al- leghany mountains, we take great pleasure in being able to offer to our patrons a much larger and better selected list than ever before, of these beautiful indigenous plants that are now fast becoming so deservedly popular. While the whole earth, outside the United States, has been searched and explored to obtain the choicest trees and plants to beautify our American grounds, yet until very recently the more beautiful American plants were overlooked, being rarely seen in cultivation, and as a rule quite un- known to American?. It is a notable fact that while our parks, cemeteries, lawns and gardens have been stuffed to overflowing with these costly foreign importations, our most beautiful and easily obtained native ornamentals have been almost entirely excluded ; and these, too, a class comprising an unrivaled wealth of grand and stately trees, magnificent flowering shrubs, and an unpar- alleled profusion of fine herbaceous plants and showy climbers ; while the beautiful and mani- fold forms of terrestrial orchids and great variety of delicate and graceful ferns are beyond easy comparison. Mr. E. S. Rand has said : " We do not appreciate our American flora, and have shut our eyes to the richness that lies all around us. In England a crowning glory of horticultural ex- hibitions is the show of ' American plants,' and we in America don't know what they ; We further quote from a recent well-written article by the president and founder of the "American 'Wild Flower Club": "In popular imported flow
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