CONTENTS  

Directors and Officers ...4
Message from the President --- Pat Macdonald ...7
Otomo Endowment Research Fund --- Neville Haydon ...16

Events, People and Places
International Camellia Species Garden in Jinhua City China ---
Gao Jiyin with Cheng Zhuqing and He Meihua ...19

International Camellia Congress in Jinhua City, China ...23

International Camellia Gardens of Excellence ...26

A Camellia Flower Quilt --- Shunpei Uemoto ...33

A Japanese Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show --- Herb Short ...34

Visiting Some Historic Camellias in Nara and Kyoto --- Shigeo Matsumoto ...36

'Francofurtensis' and 'Teutonia'; -- Lost and Found ---Klaus Peper ...43

Los Angeles Congress Pre-Congress Tour --- David Molloy ...45
Gardens and Railroads? --- Joanna and Lew Gary ... 51
Descanso Gardens Reminiscences --- Jim McQuiston ...53
The New Camellia Reticulata Hybrids --- Walter Lammerts ...58
Newly Discovered Chinese Reticulata for the Southern California Camellia Garden --- Ralph Peer ...66
About Ralph Peer --- Herb Short ...69
Los Angeles congress Post-Congress Tour --- Mayda Reynolds ...721
The Sacramento Extension --- Roger Brehaut ...75

Camellias at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne --- R.M. Withers ... 70

Obituaries
Jean Laborey ... 85
Nancy Tooby ...86
Joyce Wyndham ...86
Violet Stone ...87

Books
"Higo Camellia, a Flower for the Third Millennium" by Franco Ghirardi ...88
"Camellias" A curator's Introduction to the Camellia Collection
in the Huntington Botanical Gardens, by Ann Richardson (editor) ...89
"O Mundo da Camelia! by Viega Ferreira and Maria Celina ...89
Reprints of Old Camellia Books by Shin'ichiro Kishikawa ...89

Culture and Research
The Story of Camellia Reticulata --- Clifford R. Parks ...91

Can You Count Camellia Chromosomes? --- John Pearman ...104

Research for a new Classification System for the Genus Camellia ---
Tiaojiang Xiao and Clifford R. Parks ...108

The Winter Resistance of Recently Introduced Camellia Species ---
David Parks and Clifford R. Parks ...113

Systematic Studies of Camellia Japonica and Closely Related Species ---
Norihiro Yoshikawa and Clifford R. Parks ...117

A current View of Camellias in German --- Peter Fischer ... 122<

Leaves -- Just Leaves --- Jennifer Trehane ...128

Progress on Camellia Flower Blight Research ---
Peter Long, Christine Taylor and Rosie Bradshaw ...133

Ancient Cultivars of Camellia Japonica --- Dora Remotti ...140

The Higo Way of Making Camellia Bonsai --- Shigeo Matsumoto ...142

Tea Might Alleviate Cancer ...148

In the Regions ...150
Treasurer's Report ...157
Membership ...160

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