118 WILD AND CULTIVATED FLOWERS 
Nestly Heights, many of these shrubs are set in 
a large bed near the gateway. Nothing, I think, 
could be more effective, now that they are several 
years old and have grown tall and stocky. 
When autumn comes, the best time for trans- 
planting azaleas, Joseph and I intend to buy a few 
to set out at the Six Spruces. In fact, Joseph has 
in his note-book that he will then buy azaleas, 
mountain-laurel and rhododendrons. 
The mountain-laurel, the small laurel called 
lambkill and the wild azalea we shall probably 
set in or near the wood-border; but we shall use 
the rhododendrons as ornamental shrubs. Mr. 
Percy tells us that we can get many of these plants 
from the woods and hillsides about here. They 
occur in hidden and out-of-the-way places, but not 
too far for us to drive to. The wild pink azalea 
is as lovely as any that grows, and no rhododen- 
dron, Mr. Percy thinks, could be more beautiful 
than our wild native one. 
But the Japanese azalea mollis must have a place 
by itself at the Six Spruces, as it has at Nestly 
Heights. “Must we send to Japan for it,’^ I asked 
Mr. Percy, “or to the nursery?” Then he laughed. 
“Over our southern mountains,” he said, “there 
is an azalea growing that is very like azalea mollis. 
The natives call it the flame azalea, although its 
botanical name is azalea lutea. 'A botanist named 
Bartram, who was searching the Appalachian 
mountains for rare flowers, first saw it when it was 
