CONTENTS 1996 (No. 28)

Directors and Officers ...4
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  Message from the President --- Mayda Reynolds ...8
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  From the Editor --- Herbert Short ...11

People and Events

A Camellia Paradise 'Down Under' in New Zealand --- Jim Rolfe ...2
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  About the 1997 New Zealand Congress ...18
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  Supplement to The International Camellia Register ...19
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  New Registration Form --- Jennifer Trehane ...19
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  On the Trail of Wild Camellias in Yunnan and Sichuan --- Roger and Dorothy Brehaut ...20
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  West Towards Burma --- Vince Lea ...25
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  Sipping the Nectar of a Camellia Chalice --- Vi Lort-Phillips ...29
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  Saving the Historic Camellias of Leawood Gardens --- Noel Lothian ...31
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  Life After The International Camellia Register --- Tom Savige ...34
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  Visiting Northern Ireland's Camellia Trial Grounds ...38
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  The Third National Camellia Exhibition of China --- Neville Haydon ...40
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  The Oldest Camellia Tree in The World? --- Herb Short ...45
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  1996 Nippon Tsubaki Festival in Ishikawa --- Rich Jamison ...49
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  New Camellia Plantings at the National Arboretum --- William Ackerman ...53

Obituaries

Aileen Bettie Durrant ...56

Culture and Research

An Outline of the Studies on Camellias in Kunming Institute of Botany --- Xia Lifang ...58
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  International Symposium on Camellia Reticulata ...61
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  Producing Wabisuke-Tsubaki from Camellia Uraku --- Shuho Kirino ...69
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  Thick Stem Cuttings - A Quick Route to Big New Plants --- Wang Jiarong with Zhao Shiwei ...72
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  More Than a Nice 'Cuppa' ...75
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  New Species of Red Camellia' from Sichuan --- Liu Hengshen, Zhang Yunzhong, Xiang Guoxi and Chang Hung Ta ...77
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  New Species of Genus Camellia from Jinshajiang Valley --- Chang Hung Ta ...79
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  New Registrations ...86

In The Regions

Internet / Klaus Peper ...88
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  Australia / Doug Haviland ...88
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  Germany and Austria / Klaus Urban and Klaus Peper ...90
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  Japan / Mieko Yamamoto ...92
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  United Kingdom / Herb Short ...93
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  United States / Jean Comber ...96

Books

Camellias of China / Pang Jinhu, Feng Zhizhou, Zhu Baohua and Guo Shiqin ...98
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  Growing Camellias / Margaret Tapley ...98
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  Adventures of a gardener / Peter Smithers ...99
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  Charles Kuralt's America ...99
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  Directions for the Cultivation and Propagation of Camellias --- Traugott Jacob Seidel 1837, translated by Hans Grieder with Marion Alexander-Gruschka ...100
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  Treasurer's Report ...114
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  Membership ...118
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  International Camellia Society By-Laws ...20