University of Virginia Library

May 20

• 798 Top of mountain on dirt rd. 4 mi S. of Salem,
  Roanoke Co, Va. Wooded Hillsides. Plants 1½—2 m.
  W.43. Golden yellow limb. Deep yellow blotch
• 799. ditto. W.45. yellow orange limb. Deep blotch

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• 800.808 P = Roseum from Flat Top. near top
  803(a)
  809P = Ros x nud (good pink) from 3rd collection down
  810P May be Ros x nud. Very like roseum but large — 2nd coll.down ditto. W.46. Same color as last.
• 801 " W.45. Similar —towards salmon orange.
• 802. " Rhod. catawbiense same location. Plants
  about 2 meters. Very uniform rose pink color.


• 803M
  Ⓐ. From around the top of Flat Top Mtn, Peaks
  of Otter, Bedford Co, Va. El. about 3980 ft. Bushes
  1—3 meters grown in scrub oak & scrub hemlock on
  S. side of mtn. Just opening flowers. Fragrant.
  Color a reasonably standard clear bright pink
  limb about 1G3. Tube deeper pink. Occasional
  tending to a small darker patch* on upper lobe
  — where noted. Non stoloniferous but occasionally
  branch layers. Separate growing plants consequently
  hard to find. *brown red—not yellow!
  
  Ⓑ. Top of ridge about 400 ft lower (3650?) ft
  (check contour map) Color & description essentially
  similar except that lighter colors are appearing

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  — as noted separately.
  
  Ⓒ. S.W. side of Mtn. about 470 ft lower (3180
  ft?) Rocky slopes under high shade of
  chiefly oaks. At edge of Kalmia growth. Bushes
  1—2½ meters — some of them becoming stoloniferous.
  Colors(a) "Roseum pink coloration — see above.
  (b) deep pink—red tube. Rose pink limb (bluer)
  (c) " " " " pale pink "
  (d) " " " " White very pale limb
  (e) " " " " white "
  (f) Med. pink tube, pale pink limb
  (g) " " " white "
  
  Ⓓ S.W. side about 30 ft above the parkway
  (2700 ft?) Top shade getting denser. Plants mostly
  1—2 meters. Many very stoloniferous & covering considerable
  areas per clone & often difficult to know where one ends
  & the other begins.
  Colors: (a) fairly dark red tube, pink limb, white blotch.

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  (b) fairly dark red tube, pale pink limb
  (c) " " " " white "
  (d) Med. pink tube, pale pink limb
  (e) " " " white limb
  
  Ⓔ. Edges of rather dense Oak—Hemlock wood — along
  road & stream about halfway down west side of
  mountain between parkway & the James River — along a
  dirt road paralleling & N.E. of Va 43. Bushes 1—1½ meters
  — many cut back.
  Colors (a) dark red tube, pink limb
  (b) " " " pale to white "
  (c) Med pink—red tube, pink limb
  (d) " " " " pale "
  (e) paler tube, white limb
  (f) flowers faded.


• 804—7 Not used.
• 808P Roseum plants (about 8) from near top of Flat TopMt.
• 809P (specimen=803M(a) Good pink Ros x nud from

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  location 803C
• 810P Very like roseum but extra large fls. May be
  x nud. From location 803B.