. Kelsey's hardy American plants and Carolina mountain flowers. Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. K e I s e y ' s Hardy American Plants effects appeal. It seems strange that while the whole world outside the United States was searched and explored to obtain the choicest ornamentals to beautify our grounds, our more beautiful and hardy American Plants were almost entirely overlooked, were rarely seen in cultivation, and were, in fact, quite unknown to Americans. Foreigners were quicker to learn
. Kelsey's hardy American plants and Carolina mountain flowers. Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. K e I s e y ' s Hardy American Plants effects appeal. It seems strange that while the whole world outside the United States was searched and explored to obtain the choicest ornamentals to beautify our grounds, our more beautiful and hardy American Plants were almost entirely overlooked, were rarely seen in cultivation, and were, in fact, quite unknown to Americans. Foreigners were quicker to learn the value of our choice natives, for in 1871 Mr. E. S. Rand, an early champion of native plants, in his book on " Rhododendrons and Ameri- can Plants," said: "We do not appreciate the wealth of our American flora, and have shut our eyes to the richness which lies around us. In England a crowning glory of hor- ticultural exhibitions is the show of 'American Plants,' and we in America do not know what they ; The late Prof. W. A. Stiles, editor of "Garden and Forest," says of our Carolina Mountains: "It is a fact that no part of the world has furnished the gardens of Europe and America with so many ornamental plants of this kind [shrubs and lawn trees] as this same Alleghany region. Along the course of every rocky stream are masses of the great Rhododendron and Kalmia, while on the borders are smaller broad-leaved under-shrubs of rarest beauty. But, beyond question, the most beautiful flowering shrubs are the Azaleas, which are here massed together in the greatest profusion and luxuriance. There are a dozen other genera that could be named, each with a special charm of its own. To these add the species that are small lawn trees in the north, but attain the stature of tim- ber trees here, and we have a group that, for neatness of habit and beauty of foliage, flowers and fruit, and brilliancy of autumn coloring, has no ; NEW PLANTS H
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