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Thursday, April 26, 1951

In the morning went via Ga to Clyo & too
dirt rd in to Sisters Ferry. Quite abandoned & road to
ferry proper is entirely overgrown. An old boy working on the
farm which owns it told me that he gave up the last
ferry there about 30 years ago. Gathered specimens & plant
from an orange "speciosum" near the top of the glen
leading to the ferry — probably off the actual plants
Mr. Lemon told me of & which might well be
descendants of those of Michaux's time. Follow the
bluff down river & made a mass collection of
fairly typical speciosum (though mostly a bit on the
orange side) 1/2 a mile away. Getting past their
bloom so it was not easy to find reasonably
good specimens. In afternoon packed plants &
specimens & visited with Mrs. Wilcox? of the
Casa Hotel with Mr. & Mrs. Reed to seed transplanted
speciosum at their place. A very nice show.
Second night at Springfield.