CONTENTS 1985

INTRODUCTION

S. H. ("Son") Hackney ...ii

Dedication to "Son" Hackney --- Graem Yates ...v

American Camellia Society Officers and Directors ...vii

Board of Trustees, American Camellia Society Endowment Fund, Past Presidents ...viii

ACS Fellows, Bronze Plaques ...ix

ACS Certificates of Commendation, U.S.A. Officers and Directors -- International Camellia Society ...x

National Awards ...xi

American Camellia Society National Hall of Fame ...xii

Contents ...xiii

American Camellia Society, A Short History --- Milton H. Brown ...1

CULTURE

Camellias --- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, England ...13

Hints About Buying Camellias --- Mrs. M. J. Witman ...29

Using Insecticide Effectively ...31

Grafting Camellias --- Luther W. Baxter, Jr. & Susan Fagan ...33

Healing and Long Term Care of Graft Union Dr. Wm. Y. Bennett ...38

Disbudding --- Joseph H. Pyron ...46

RESEARCH

The Source of Wild Collected Camellia Chrysantha Seeds --- Bruce Bartholomew ...64

Looking for Yellow Flowers with Hybridizing --- Ryo Nagao ...66

Yellow Pigment of Camellia Chrysantha Flowers --- Ikuo Miyajima, Shunpei Uemoto, Yusuke Sakata, Ken-ichi Arisumi & Kenjiro Toki ...71

Cytochemical Localization of Adenosine Triphosphatase & Phosphatase Within Developing Male Gametophyte of Camellia Reticulata --- Liu Chengyun ...81

A Preliminary Report on a Method for More Control for Camellia Dieback & Canker --- Luther W. Baxter, Jr. & Susan Fagan ...85

Update of Camellia Flower Fragrance in Northern California --- Ken Hallstone ...90

Continuation of Cold Hardiness Studies with Camellias in the Northeast --- William L. Ackerman ...91

INTERNATIONAL

Judging of Camellias in England --- Dr. James Smart ...104

MISCELLANEOUS

Winter in Savannah --- Albert Sidney Britt, Jr., Col., USA Ret. ...125

Some Thoughts About Evergreen Forests, Continental Cold Fronts & Camellias --- Clifford R. Parks ...134

The Camellia Collection at the Lyman Estate Greenhouse, Henrietta Light ...141

Nomenclature in America, A Short History --- Milton H. Brown ...148

Swapping Camellia Scions: Pearl or Peril --- Luther W. Baxter, Jr. ...152

A January Dream --- Luther W. Baxter, Jr. ...153

ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENTS

SPECIES AND VARIETIES

Miniature Camellias Updated --- Ivan J. Mitchell ...170

The Judges Have Spoken --- Milton H. Brown ...173

The Paeoniiflora Puzzle --- T. J. Savige ...179

New Camellias Registered Since 1984 Yearbook ...182

COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Rose Garden Dedicated ...3

'Scented Sun' ...34

'Adolphe Audusson Var.' ...35

Figure 1. Tokyo Section of The Japan Camellia Society-Seibu Camel- lia Show, Tokyo 1985 ...98

Figure 2. Hybrid Contest Section of The Japan Camellia Society- Seibu Camellia Show ...98

Figure 3. American Section of The Japan Camellia Society-Seibu Camellia Show, Tokyo, 1985. West Coast flowers on the left and East Coast flowers on the right side ...99

Figure 4. A C. japonica x C. chrysantha hybrid with its peach color, pedicel stem, formal double with narrow petals. This is an F-1 hybrid ...99

Figure A. The evergreen forest with abundant C. japonica at Dog- back Pass near Fukuoa ...67

Figure B. An old camellia tree stands near a shrine in the village of Gaga at the north-easternmost limit of the distribution of C. japonica ...67

Figure C. Mature evergreen forest at Kitamuky Yama near Kumamoto, Kyushu. Note that the small number of deciduous species can be identified by fall coloring in late November ...67

Figure D. December at Gotoh. The grasses are brown but forest of evergreen trees carries no trace of autumn coloration ...67

Figure 2. Photomicrograph of cross section of fresh petal of C. chrysantha. A, apical portion; B, median portion ...66

Figure 3. Photomicrograph of chromoplasts in the mesophyll of C. chrysantha ...66