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CONTENTS 1978
INTRODUCTION
Dedication to William B. Johnston --- JUDGE SHERRILL HALBERT ...vAmerican Camellia Society, Officers and Directors ...vii
ACS Fellows, Bronze Plaque ...viii
Board of Trustees of American Camellia Society Endowment Fund ...ix
AMERICAN CAMELLIA SOCIETY AWARDS
John P. Illges Medal, Peer Sasanqua, Sewell Mutant, Harris Hybrid, Arminta Cawood, Australian Camellia Research Society Trophy ...1'Grace Albritton' Honored ...2
Parks Wins Harris Award Again ...3
CAMELLIA PERSONALITIES
Recollections of John P. Illges --- DOROTHY (MRS. JOHN B. ) SHEPARD ...4To You With Love --- MARGUERITE (MRS. T. J.) SMITH ...7
CULTURE
The Life Cycle of the Camellia --- P. G. VALDER ...8Pruning Camellias --- HENRY CLAY ...17
Rooting of Cuttings Directly in Growing Medium Containing Fertilizer --- R. L. SELF And c. T. POUNDERS, JR. ...20
Winters -- Ugh! Two Bad Ones in a Row ...23
Winter in Baltimore, Maryland --- DR. CHIUN T. LING ...23
National Arboretum Camellias and the 1977-78 Winter Season --- W. L. ACKERMAN ...25
1977-78 Performance of Camellias in North Carolina Pied- mont --- MRS. JOSEPH SPENGLER ...26
Comparative Effects of Low Temperatures on Camellias in the Sumter, South Carolina Area --- MAJ. GEN. HAROLD R. BAUER ...27
1978 -- Was That a Winter! --- LUTHER W. BAXTER, JR. ...32
South Carolina's Winter --- PAUL DAHLEN ...33
Winter at Massee Lane --- HELEN H. TEETER ...34
Winter 1977-78 -- Warner Robins, Georgia --- MARVIN JERNIGAN ...36
Winter in Savannah --- GUS DUBUS ...37
Hybrids Winter in Valdosta, Georgia --- E. HULYN SMITH ...38
Winter in Florida --- ROBERT A. HILL ...40
Winter in Shreveport --- G. F. ABENDROTH ...41
The New Ice Age -- No Big Deal --- CLYDE X. COPELAND ...42
Winter 1977-78 in the English Midlands --- H. John Tooby ...43
The Components of Cold Hardiness in Camellia --- CLIFFORD R. PARKS ...47
Effect of the Cold on the Camellia Flowers --- MARIO DEL SERA ...56
RESEARCH
Report of the ACS Research Advisory Committee --- W. L. ACKERMAN and KEN HALLSTONE ...61Aseptic Grafting --- W. L. ACKERMAN ...66
Handling Camellia Seed by Aseptic Culture --- W. L. ACKERMAN ...70
The Status of Our Knowledge in 1978 of Twig Blight, Canker and Dieback of Camellias Caused by a Strain of Glomerella Cingulata --- NGO HUY CAN, L. W. BAXTER, JR. and S. G. FAGAN ...75
Dieback of Camellia -- Contagious or Non-Contagious? --- LUTHER W. BAXTER, JR., NGO HUY CAN and SUSAN G. FAGAN ...91
Break-Throughs in Camellia Research of Ted Alfter --- CHARLOTTE JOHNSON ...96
Tissue Culture for Camellias II --- WILLIAM Y. BENNETT ...102
The Inheritance of Floral Characters in Camellias --- GEORGE P. HANSON ...104
Interspecific Hybridization of Camellias with Particular Refer- ence to Fragrance: Chapter III Gibbing --- KEN HALLSTONE ...114
The Camellia sasanqua Dilemma -- Are C. oleifera Hybrids the Answer? ---W. L. ACKERMAN ...117
CAMELLIA VARIETIES
A Look at the Coming Hybrid Camellia --- FRANK PURSEL ...122The California Camellia Scene --- BILL DONNAN ...124
Camellias Registered With the ACS Since The American Ca- mellia Yearbook -- 1977 ...127
INTERNATIONAL
Creating a Camellia Paradise in Mexico --- ESTHER P. DE SALINAS ...136Camellia Growing in Japan is Alive and Doing Well --- PHILIP W. IRELAND ...140
China --- SARA-LOUISE and D. JACKSON FAUSTMAN ...149
The Camellia -- A Condensed History, ELIZABETH (MRS. A. B. ) COOPER ...154
Georg Joseph Kamel --- ANTONIO SEVESI ...161
Verschaffelt's Nouvelle Iconographie Des Camellias --- GEORGE GRAVES ...167
Growing Camellias Outdoors in New York City --- MARTIN D. BERNSTEIN ...178
The Big Tree --- A. P. LANDRY ...185
The Cultivation of Camellia Bonsai --- SATORU OGISU ...188
The Jewell Whitehead Camellia Trail --- E. HULYN SMITH ...197
The Library of the American Camellia Society --- JOSEPH H. PYRON ...199
The American Camellia Yearbook ( Cumulative Index 1969- 1977) ...209
SHOWS AND SHOW RULES
The Judges Have Spoken --- MILTON H. BROWN ...224Rules and Regulations Governing Procedures and Judging of American Camellia Society Cooperative Shows ...231
Choosing the Best Flower in Show --- WILLIAM B. JOHNSTON ...249
Thirty Years of Artistic Design Contests --- MRS. MILTON R. BELL ...252
The 1977-1978 Artistic Arrangement Contest, An Apology ...255
Color -- Illustrations
'Marie Bracey', ACS Reg. 292, Jan. 2, 1957, Illges P. Illges Medal Winner in 1963 ...Dust JacketMr. John P. Illges and Mr. David Strother admiring a 'Lady Clare' at Massee Lane in 1948. David Crouch is standing behind the early "titans" of the Camellia World ...4
'Elvige', ACS Reg. No. 1408, Oct. 7, 1976 ...5
'In The Pink' ...20
'Angel Wings' ...21
'Coral Delight' ...84
'Lila Naff', ACS Reg. No. 965, 1966 ...85
'Homer Fritchie', ACS Reg. No. 1389, Sept. 25, 1975; and 'Tammia', ACS Reg. No. 1221, Aug. 1, 1971 ...116
'Grand Slam', ACS Reg. No. 694, Nov. 1962 ...117
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