Tuesday, May 1, 1951

Route 17 to Wilmington with no detours but
a lot of collecting — chiefly of atlanticum which gets
thicker & thicker but also too lots of canescens — one
in Brunswick Co., N.C. Atlanticum is very mixed> — so
far as colors are concerned & is obviously intergrading
with canescens a great deal.

Wednesday, May 2, 1951

Route: US 74 west to N.C. 87 via Fayetteville / or rather
S on N.C. 20 because of a detour), from Raeford 211 to
Aberdeen, U.S. 1 & 501 via Sanford to Chapel Hill, N.C.
54 & U.S. 70 to Raleigh for the night with the Clarksons.
Pretty good collecting. The Bladen Co. canescens proved
to be half nudiflorum & Moore Co. entirely nudiflorum so
so the dividing line evidently comes right in the region.
Did not find atlanticum around Chapel Hill. It seems
rather high, dry & red for the species.

Thursday, May 3, 1951

Route: U.S. 70 Raleigh to Kingston, N.C. 55 to
Ft. Barnwell & cut overs to Vanceboro. Night
just beyond Wilmar.

Route 70 proved a bad one for collecting — too
much tobacco country. The last part, however, was
good, with atlanticum in great profusion in the flat
pine lands. Was not successful in finding any
nudiflorum during the day.

Picked up new shipping tags at Dept. of Agr. in
Raleigh in the morning.

Friday, May 4, 1951

Route 17 from Chocowinity — U.S. 17 to Windsor, N.C. 97
& Va. 37 to Suffolk, Va., Va. 10 & U.S. 17 & Va. 108 via
Newport News & just beyond Williamsburg for the night.
Collecting most mixed masses of the atlanticum complex
— very involved in color throughout the whole region but
getting much more glandular as we go north. One
only found — very deep very pink & obviously
a pink contributor to atlanticum.

Saturday, May 5, 1951

Route: Va. 30, 33 & 198 to Mathews in Mathews Co., return by Va. 14 via Adner, King And Queen Court House & Sparta to
Bowling Green for the night. Nudiflorum was plentiful all
the way, especially in the narrow dips in the sand hills of King &
Queen Co. The tour around the cape was for atlanticum but
absolutely none was found although the terrain around
Mathews seemed entirely suitable. Coastal plains proper,
however only really touches the extreme ends of those points.
Atl. ceased the day before very soon above Hampton. But
strangely one small stand (the only one during the day) cropped
up near King And Queen Court House where it must presumably
somehow follow up the river. It was on a hillside & scarcely in
the locality one would expect to find it. Nudiflorum is very pink.

Sunday, May 6, 1951

Route: from Bowling Green Va. 2, 606 to Paytes, retrace to Snell,
back same route & Va. 20, to Orange, U.S. 15 & Va.
230 to Madison, 231 to Sperryville for the night. Plenty of nudiflorum all the way — partly glandular.
It seems to do well on the red soils of the region but
they are moister and seem more fertile than those of Ga.
& South Carolina. In bloom to about 1600 ft. on
the Blue Ridge — for tomorrow's collecting.

Monday, May 7, 1951

Drove to Luray & visited with Favor of the Park,
discussing the time to revisit (about may 25). Collected
nudiflorum to 1600 ft. above Sperryville but no more was open.
Took the Skyline Drive(this still quite dormant) to U.S. 33 to Gordonsville & 15 to Farmville for the night.
Plenty of nudiflorum until the last two counties when the
clay got redder & they seem to fade out as farther
south. Headed now for Alabama.

Tuesday, May 8, 1951

Packed specimens & plants & shipped 2 boxes & 1 bundle
from Danville Va. in the afternoon.

Travelled via U.S. 15 & Va. 36 to Danville, then U.S.
29 to Golds reens boro, N.C. for the night. 2 mass collections
of nudiflorum & several odd specimens. They thin out
very considerably in lower Virginia. The mass collection
at Gold Greensboro tonight was a surprise. The
situation in flat scrub oak woodland is not
where one would expect to find them — particularly in
such quantity.

Wednesday, May 9, 1951

Route: Intended following U.S. 29 to Anderson, S.C.
but the tours & traffic lights are too thick. Turned off
onto 120 at Salisbury & followed it around via
Shelby to 29 again at Gaffney. Collected mail at
Anderson & stayed the night. Collecting was spotty
in the red hill district — so azaleas only in favorable
locations — which is always along streams, usually on
a N. slope and only on some streams at
that. However made 2 mass collections — with
none between — both needed considerable searching &
many other searches were fruitless. It is not helped
by the fact that nudiflorum is about past bloom
in the area. The best spot was Broad River
where a wealth of ericaceous material covered the
river deposit sand banks on the S. side.

Thursday, May 10, 1951

Leaving Anderson bright & early cut straight into the
county, met a farmer & was promptly led to a mass
collection of canescens — all past bloom. Travelling on
U.S. 29 & on to Athens, collecting once along the way,
& stopped at the university. Dr. Duncan was on a field
trip but was shown the herbarium by a Mr. Jacobs. Very
few azaleas — but perhaps worth getting later. Taking
U.S. 129 via Gainesville travelled to junction of U.S. 19
in Lumpkin Co. for the night — among the mountains.
A collection just outside Gainesville was interesting for
one spectacular red among the other salmon & orange
calendulaceums — almost as if speciosum was having
some influence up this way. Subsequent collections
run more to the yellow-orange. Calendulaceum is
becoming really plentiful from White Co. on.

Friday, May 11, 1951

Route: Left on U.S. 19 to 60 north over Woody Gap (in
Lumpkin Co., then right on 180 around Lake Winfield Scott &
through Vogel State Park to U.S. 129 again. Took a dirt rd. to
a defunct construction camp just S. of Vogel Park (for the
"furbishii" complex) then south on 129 via Neel Gap (border of
Lumpkin & Union Cos., S. on U.S. 19 to Dawsonville & W. on
Ga. 53 to Calhoun for the night. Most calendulaceums that
around the Neel Gap region were definitely on the red-orange
side & there seems to be all that "Bakeri" * represents in
Vogel State Park. Furbishii is absolutely no different *
(see notes in record book). Finally pulled in one more
mass collection of canescens, still in fair flower, in
Dawson Co. No further azaleas seen. Was disappointed
in not finding calendulaceum in this region as a possible
red stepping stone to the speciosum of Atlanta.

*Evidently did not find the right plants!

Saturday, May 12, 1951

A through run from Calhoun on Ga. 53 to Rome, 20 to
Leesburg, Ala., 68 to Albertville, & 241 & Ala. 112 to
Cullman for the night. Beautyrest Cabins on U.S. 31 as before
Hit one lot of canescens in Cherokee Co., & found the two lots
of alabamense though rather past bloom, still carrying sufficient
flowers to serve the purpose. They definitely like shady
spots on the north side of hills — seem to prefer more shade
than canescens — or at least in just these two spots. Still
want to find a pure stand if possible — tomorrow.

Sunday, May 13, 1951

A very strenuous day. Back to station on Ala. 69. Then over a
long dirt road via Trade to Arley to Addison. Ala. 112 & 5
to Russellville for the night. Finally found plenty of alabamense —
at least the canescens phase — in completely full bloom. Winston
Co. is certainly the center. On 122 & the Sipsey River the hills are
covered as far as you can see. None here, though of this low & very
glandular form. A few plants only in Cullman Co. Someday
should try & find this, as it must be, in quantity somewhere by
itself. Arrived at Russellville (the nearest cabins) very late
& did not get to bed until nearly midnight.

Monday, May 14, 1951

Retraced to a mountain slope S. of Russellville. Found a hybrid
complex but not true alabamense. Hit the same mtn. 10 mi.
E of Russellville on Ala. 24 but it was dry slope &
found no azaleas. (They are in enormous quantities at the first
stop). Retraced to R. & took U.S. 43 north to
Lawrenceburg, Tenn., & U.S. 64 E to Monteagle for
the night. Much of the travel in Tennessee was over
red soil land with limestone outcrops & lots of black
locust & cedar. No azaleas until hitting a sphagnum
swamp (fairly high) E. of Fayetteville. Then no more in
cedar territory until the road climbed the mountain to
monteagle. The base of this mountain is limestone but it is
evidently overlaid with sandstone & on this the azaleas
occur again in great abundance & also diversity. It
superficially seems that this may be a spot where the
influence of canescens, alabamense & nudiflorum all
meet.

Tuesday, May 15, 1951

Route: Tenn. 56 from Monteagle to Altamont, then 108
to McMinnville. U.S. 708 to Crossville for the night
(Rainbow Cabins — O.K.). The alabamense — canescens
complex attained great profusion in the hills from Tracy
City to beyond Altamont & the drop to the red soil —
cedar valley which extends to around Sparta. It was rather
conspicuous that alabamense has imparted a hill loving
character to canescens — also that the white of alabamense is
the most pronounced in the highest places. The valley
around McMinnville has something approaching nudiflorum
in localized spots — chiefly in the sphagnum swamps
when they can be found. Nud. becomes apparently truer
on the plateau proper towards Crossville — still,
however, in the wet places.

Wednesday, May 16, 1951

Route: Tenn. 68 to Grassy Cove, retrace & S. on Tenn.
28 to Pikeville. To top of West Mountain, retrace & E over
mountain on Tenn. 30 to Athens for the night.

Grassy Cove is an interesting formation with it's river sink
finally reappearing from through the mountain as the
Sequatchie River. Tried to concentrate on getting a fair
picture today of the canescenscanescens-alabamense &
nudiflorum complexes in the mountain region. They are
very mixed but the picture seems fairly straight now.
But delayed too long for I had hoped to
reach Murphy tonight.

Thursday, May 17, 1951

Route: Tenn. 30 via Etowah to U.S. 64 to
Murphy and Andrews, N.C. Gravel road via
Aquone to top of Wayah Bald. Down to Franklin
& over Ocoee Gap towards Sylva for the night.
Besides one collection of canescens type in
Cherokee Nat'l. Forest, nearly past bloom, no other
early azaleas were seen. Calendulaceum appeared
soon after crossing the N.C. line & has been
present in comparative abundance on the lower
slopes. Most of the azaleas of Wayah Bald are
evidently arborescens type & will not be in
flower until sometime next month. Missed Nicholls
& Mrs. Hayden at Murphy but obtained some
useful information at the Nantahala Forest
headquarters at Franklin. A rather hot
day but cooled by a little rain this evening.

Friday, May 18, 1951

Route: To Asheville via U.S. 19A & 19, with one mass
collection of calendulaceum along the way. To rather beyond
Bristol, Va. for the night via U.S. 19 & 11.

Stopped at Biltmore in the early afternoon & had a grand
time with Sylvester Owens & the azaleas — by far the best
collection of native material in existence! Particularly interested
in Furbishii — which does not represent my own collection.
The remainder is pretty much the hybrid mess that I have been
seeing all along the way. A Mrs. Shelton is being
groomed to take over Beadle's work.

The rest of the way yielded no collections — partly
due to very heavy thunderstorms in the mountains & by
reason of the fact that none were seen beyond 2
calendulaceum in Unicoi Co., Tenn. — & not collected.
Will hope for better luck tomorrow but at the same
time would like to reach the Eastern Shore, boa with
all speed!

Saturday, May 19, 1951

Route: U.S. 11 to Abingdon, 58 to Damascus & on over
dirt rd. via Konnarock back to Chilhowie. U.S. 11 to
Dublin, Va. 100 to Pearisburg & US 460 to
Christiansburg. US 11 to Salem for the night.

Very roundabout — chiefly in a search for a diploid
yellow calendulaceum. No luck so far; It is perhaps a
week early in this section. Ran into roseum & nudiflorum
with hybrids between both & between both & calendulaceum.
Where do such things stop??

Sunday, May 20, 1951

Over mountain east of Salem & back to Roanoke via U.S. 221.
U.S. 11 to Buchanan & Va. 43 to Peaks of Otter. Dirt rd.
across the James River back to U.S. 11 & to beyond. Natural
Bridge for the night. A few calendulaceum near Roanoke but
got a good transect down Mt. Broad Top from roseum into
nudiflorum. Quite a hike up the mountain! Took 5 hrs. to
run the transect! Philadelphia gets later & later.
Roseum is very glandular on the top of the mountain.

Monday, May 21, 1951

Route: U.S. 11 to New Market, 211 via Luray &
Skyline Drive to Washington, U.S. 50 to Annapolis.
Obtain maps, park key & advice from naturalist Paul
Favor at Luray Park headquarters & proceeded to scout
best places for an east side mountain transect. The
Red Gate road was not too promising & finally settled on
a run from the Pinnacles down. Collected at 3800 ft. but
plants only in bud. Took a fire road down to 2400 ft.
& made 2 collections — not very satisfactory. Will
have to return in a week & finish the job. Tried to
reach M.T. Forser in Washington (left the Skyline Drive at
6:00 pm) but found him in California. No place to
stay between Washington & Annapolis. Pretty darn
tired.

Tuesday, May 22, 1951

Route: Ferry to Eastern Shore then U.S. 50 to Easton,
Md. 331 to Choptank, 319 & 18 to Lewes & Rehoboth
Beach, Del. 14 to Milford, U.S. 113 to Frederica &
12 to Sandtown, 10 & U.S. 13 to Philadelphia.
Aside from a small collection of atlanticum at
Milford. Spent most of the day until 4:30 searching for
Choptank Mills. Never found it but azaleas turned up
in large quantity in the sandy soil around Sandtown.
Made good collections of plants & specimens.

Wednesday, May 23, 1951

Philadelphia

Thursday, May 24, 1951

Philadelphia

Friday, May 25, 1951

Philadelphia

Saturday, May 26, 1951

Left at noon on Bethlehem pike & Pa. 12 for Scranton,
U.S. 6 & Pa. 29 to Endicott, visited LaBar's Nursery at
Stroudsburg, collected roseum on Big Pocono & nudiflorum
at the foot before driving on. Not very good roseum — or
nudiflorum for that matter. Saw more azaleas along the
way but did not collect further.

Sunday, May 27, 1951

Route: N.Y. 26 to Maine. Cut over to 38 via Newark Valley to Richford & N.Y. 79 via Brooktondale to Ithaca
for the night. Breakfast with the Bowens & a mass
collection of roseum on a hill above Binghamton. Another good
collection with plants above Brooktondale. Still not good roseum
& no nudiflorum seen. It is evidently not present in the
hill country of New York state.

Monday, May 28, 1951

Route: from Ithaca, N.Y. 13 & 17 to Painted Post, U.S. 15
& cut over to U.S. 22 to Bedford via Altoona.
Several side excursions into the hills in search of azaleas
which unfortunately are getting very much "past" in Pa.
Collected both roseum & nudiflorum, however.

Tuesday, May 29, 1951

Route: Pa. Turnpike Bedford to Donegal, Pa. 31 & 982
to Connellsville, U.S. 119 & 250 via Morgantown, W. Va. &
Grafton to Elkins for the night.

In spite of early azaleas being past bloom across most
of Pennsylvania — they were only approaching full on the
high plateau or mountain between New Baltimore & Donegal on
the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Oaks, though, were only just in leaf — It
must be a very cool section!

The first nudifloras were found in West Va. in
Barbour Co. Calendulaceum, too were observed in this
Co. from Philippi south although none were collected.
Mostly yellow or yellow—orange. Looks like good
collecting for tomorrow?

Wednesday, May 30, 1951

Route: Back rd. from U.S. 33 around to U.S. 250 S. of Elkins.
U.S. 250 to Durbin (with side trips). W. Va. 28 & branch rd. to
Cass. Over mountain from Cass to Linwood. U.S. 219 to Mingo
for the night. Yellow to orange calendulaceums abundant
throughout the region but no pure stands of small yellow.
near Hosterman ran into another curious mixture of calend,
roseum & nudiflorum — hybridizing. Beautiful country with a
bewildering array of hills to 3800 or 4000 ft. Tough land for
farming yet stock raising seems to flourish.

Thursday, May 31, 1951

Route: From Mingo to Valley Head, west on W. Va. 15 to
Camp Caesar beyond Webster Springs. Side rd. up the
Williams River to Dyer. Back through Webster Springs & N
on W. Va. 20 to Buckhannon, east to Elkins for the
night. Again the same calendulaceum orange-yellow
complex all day with a few pseudo nudiflorum interspersed.