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CONTENTS 1981
INTRODUCTION
Dedication to George Stuart Watson --- Spencer C. Walden, Jr. ...vAmerican Camellia Society, Officers and Directors ...vii
Board of Trustees, American Camellia Society Endowment Fund, Past Presidents ...viii
A.C.S, Fellows, Bronze Plaques and Certificates of Commen- dation ...ix
A.C.S. National Camellia Awards, John P. Illges Medal, Peer Sasanqua, Sewell Mutant, Harris Hybrid, Arminta Cawood, Australian Camellia Research Society Trophy, John A. Tyler, Jr. Miniature Award ...xi
American Camellia Society National Hall of Fame ...xii
In Appreciation of G. G. Gerbing --- John N. Sewell and Asa Barnes, M.D ...xiii
Contents ...xvii
CULTURE
Concepts of Camellia Culture --- J. Carroll Reiners ...1Repotting the Big Ones --- E. C. (Gene) Snooks ...6
Know the Enemy: Red Spider Mites --- Perry C. Brumfield ...12
The Concern Over Flourides --- Raymond Sheldrake, Jr. ...21
Strategies to be Used in Getting Blooms to the Head Table --- Art Gonos ...24
Gibberellic Acid and Camellias --- Willard F. Goertz ...29
What Everyone Should Already Know About Gibbing --- Col. (Ret.) R. D. Hicks ...36
SPECIES AND VARIETIES
Report on Hung-ta Chang's Revision of the Genus Camellia --- Dr. Bruce Bartholomew ...41Corrigenda to "The Origin and Classification of the Garden Varieties of the Camellia reticulata" --- Dr. Bruce Bartholomev ...53
A Report About Several Species --- Shuho Kirino and Naotoshi Hakoda ...55
Camellia Species From "Acta Phytotaxonomica" --- Milton H. Brown ...70
The Six Adopted Varieties --- May Osinga ...73
A Sporting Chance For More Mutants --- Ivan J. Mitchell ...74
Camellias in California -- The New Ones --- Bill Donnan ...80
Winners in the Fresno Area --- Jack P. Woo ...85
Show Winners in the Gulf and Atlantic Coast Areas -- A Few New -- Many Old --- Milton H. Brown ...86
The Judges Have Spoken --- Milton H. Brown ...88
New Camellias Registered Since the 1980 Yearbook ...94
RESEARCH
Camellia Flower Blight Caused by Ciborinia camelliae kohn --- Dr. Luther W. Baxter, Jr. and Dr. William M. Epps ...107Some Old and New Fragrant Flower Camellia Selections --- Dr. William L. Ackerman ...113
Interspecific Hybridization of Camellias With Particular Refer- ence to Fragrance --- Ken Hailstone ...115
New Cold Hardy Camellia Hybrid Selections --- Dr. William L. Ackerman and Margot Williams ...117
A New Program to Measure Hardiness in Camellias --- Mitchell M. Sewell and Dr. Clifford R. Parks ...121
Propagating Woody Species in Tissue Culture --- F. A. Hammer- schlog ...135
MISCELLANEOUS
Camellia Stamp --- Milton H. Brown ...138The 'Betty Sheffield Supreme' ...142
Camellia Greenhouses in the Boston Area --- Esther G. Parker ...145
The Backyard Backache Blues --- Frank A. Lang, Jr., M.D. ...149
Photographing Camellia Arrangements --- Mrs. Paul Kincaid ...151
Quick As a Flash --- Marion Edwards ...155
Contemporary Practice of Landscape Architecture and Ameri- can Development --- Dr. Hubert Bond Owens ...157
INTERNATIONAL
The Oldest Camellias in the German Democratic Republic --- Fritz Kümmel ...164Camellias in Mexico --- Mrs. Alys Honey and Sra. Esther Pliego de Salinas ...176
Preliminary Report on Trials --- Bruce Robertson ...181
ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENTS
The 1980-1981 Artistic Arrangement Contest --- Mrs. John C. Walker, Jr. ...184
SOCIETY AFFAIRS
Highlights of Minutes of Governing Board -- San Mateo, 19 February 1981 ...195Highlights of Minutes of Board of Trustees -- San Mateo, 19 February 1981 ...197
Highlights of Minutes of Governing Board -- Fort Valley, 23 April 1981 ...198
Highlights of Minutes of Board of Trustees -- Fort Valley, 23 April 1981 ...200
COLOR-ILLUSTRATIONS
Camellia chrysantha (Hu) Tuyama (Figure 12 in the article "A Report About Several Species", see page 53). In these lovely photographs we can see actual color pictures of this exciting species that only became available in the Western World in 1980 -- The Year of the Camellia. The photograph was made available to us by our wonder- ful camellia friend, Dr. Chang Ao-lo, Vice Director of the Kunming Botanic Institute ...12Some Old and New Fragrant Flowered Camellias. See page 113 for article by Dr. William L. Ackerman ...13
New Cold Hardy Camellias. See page 117 for article by Dr. William L. Ackerman and Margot Williams ...76
Camellia japonica, Single Red Camellia, Plate 1, Illustrations and Descriptions of The Plants Which Compose the Na- tural Order CAMELLIEAE, and of The Varieties of Ca- mellia Japonica, Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, Drawings by Alfred Chandler, the Descriptions by William Beattie Booth, A. L. S., London, 1831. The ACS Rare Book Library has this very rare edition. (Photo by Editor) ...77
Plate 67, Vol. II in G. E. Edwards A Natural History of Birds, dated 1745, shows a Chinese pheasant perched on a flower- ing branch of Camellia japonica, which Edward says, he drew from nature, and that "This beautiful flowering tree was raised by the late curious and noble Lord Petre, in his Stoves at Thorndon Hall in Essex." We have one of the original prints in the ACS Library. This is the earliest known colored print of a camellia. (Photo by Editor) ...140
Plate 18, Tome I, Camellia japonica 'Chandlerii Elegans', Iconographie du Genre Camellia, by M. L'Abbe Berlese and the artist M. J. J. Jung, 1841. We have two complete three-volume sets of this rare works. One of the sets has the original binding from the private library of Empress Maria Louise, wife of Napoleon. (Photo by Editor) ...141
Some Camellia Stamps in our Camellia Stamp Collection. Shown here are eight from Albania, one from Poland, the United States, Belgium, three from Japan and the one from Socialist Republic of Vietnam. (Photo by Editor) ...176
The Flower Market. This is a reproduction of an old print, "The Flower Market," 1822, in the Sigmund J. Katz collec- tion, showing blooming potted camellias in a Paris flower market. Printed in 1947 edition of The American Camellia Yearbook. (Photo by Editor) ...177
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