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Demo Cultivar A
Demo Cultivar L
The International Camellia Register Supplement
The International Camellia Society, 1998
By the International Registrar of the Genus Camellia: Thomas J. Savige,
Wirlinga, NSW, Australia.
1 volume, 386 pages, limited edition.
ISNB 0 646 346 946
A limited number of sets -- the two volumes of the Register plus the Supplement -- are
still available,
at the price of U.S. $100.00 or £54.00 per set.
To obtain a copy, contact Arthur P. Landry, 10522 Ferncliff Ave., Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70815,
U.S.A., or Andrew Simons, Wingfield House, 11 Brinsmade Road, Ampthill,
Beds. MK45 2PP, U.K.
In March 2005, the International Camellia Society -- since 1962 the International Registration Authority for the genus Camellia -- nominated Lorraine Fraser as International Camellia Registrar. She was duly appointed by the Council of the International Society for Horticultural Science. Her contact details are: P.O. Box 6017, Upper Mount Gravatt, QLD 4122, Australia; e-mail: lorrie96 "at" tpg.com.au
Lorraine Fraser is now guiding debate on the question of an updated Register, which will be on the agenda of the ICS Board of Directors' general meeting at the ICS Congress in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2006. The data in the Supplement has now been melded into that of the Register, as well as all registration information and corrections at hand to date that has subsequently been gathered by the Registrar and her colleagues. Rather than there being a second Supplement, it is envisaged that a completely new version of the Register will be published. The main issues: when such a work will be published, in what format/s, and at what price/s.
The register is the culmination of work begun in the 1950s to collect all available written information on camellia cultivars, and to sort out valid names, synonyms, etc, with a description and history of more than 30,000 entries. The Register and Supplement also list and briefly describe the more than 200 Species of camellia, as of 1998. For general information read the Foreword, the Acknowledgements, and the Preface of the Register. For proper use it is necessary to look into the Explanation of text and abbreviations. These help clarify the role of a genus registrar: what a registering body is authorized to do and should do, but also importantly, what it does not have the authority to do.
Such a list as the first edition of the International Camellia Register will always be open to amendments and corrections -- as error and omissions will always exist in such a comprehensive list, no matter how carefully checked, and in view of further data coming to light from previously unlocated literature and catalogues. The first supplement to the International Camellia Register corrected many errors, but other errors undoubtedly still exist in the records.
As it is intended to publish lists of new cultivars at future regular intervals, a plea is made to the reader to notify the Registrar of any further data or information available to the reader, as well as errors in this compilation, so that this information may be included.
Cultivar listings are given as a demo here:
Cultivar A* with some pictures, and
Cultivar L*, which looks like a page of the published register.
If you desperately need information on the International Camellia Register, contact pat.short "at" camellia-ics.org