No. 1324. 
AZALEA CALENDULACEA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A native of Carolina and Virginia, on 
mountains, also of Georgia. where it was 
found, in 1774, by our late venerable friend, 
William Bartram, who in his travels 
gives this most glowing description of its 
beauty. ‘ The clusters of the blossoms 
cover the shrubs in such incredible pro- 
fusion on the hill sides, that suddenly open- 
ing to view from deep shades, I was 
alarmed by the apprehension of the hill 
being set on fire." He calls it certainly 
the most gay and brilliant flowering shrub 
yet known. 
It succeeds very well with us planted in 
a bed of peat, mixed with loam; flowers 
in May and June, and may be increased by 
layers, which in two years become suffi- 
ciently rooted. It is never injured by the 
cold of our climate. 
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