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A Non-Profit Organization<br />
Volume 2, No.4 OFFICIAL BULLETIN April, 1949<br />
<strong>CAMELLIA</strong> <strong>JAPONICA</strong> - <strong>GOVERNOR</strong> <strong>EARL</strong> <strong>WARREN</strong> - <strong>Immense</strong> pink<br />
incomplete double large petals with stamens intermixed, of unusual depth.<br />
Formerly called Edwards No. 102.<br />
Courtesy John Edwards, Edwards' Nursery, Palo Alto.<br />
Southern California Camellia Society, Inc.
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PRESIDENT: .<br />
D. L. Feathers (Lafayette 2747)<br />
1 Camellia Lane, Lafayette 1<br />
VICE-PRESIDENT:<br />
Walker M. Wells, M.D., (HU 3-0951)<br />
133 Hagar St., Piedmont.<br />
SECRETARY-TREASURER:<br />
Barlow Hollingshead (Orinda 2054)<br />
12 La Cintilla Ave., Orinda.<br />
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN:<br />
PROGRAM:<br />
L. P. Glaudon (2044-R)<br />
21 Yolanda Drive, San Anselmo.<br />
MEMBERSHIP:<br />
G. Myron Grismore, D.D.S. (KE 2-3449)<br />
3618 Victor Ave., Oakland.<br />
HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH:<br />
Gordon W. Richmond, M.D. (RI1742-J<br />
475 Mount St., Richmond.<br />
LAKESIDE PARK <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> PLANTING:<br />
Northern California Camellia Society<br />
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SOCIETY<br />
ROSTER OF OFFICERS<br />
DIRECTORS:<br />
L. P. Glaudon (2044--R)<br />
21 Yolanda Drive, San Anselmo.<br />
Louis J. Macchia (l682-W)<br />
2236 Carmelita Drive, San Carlos.<br />
Gordon W. Richmond, M.D. (RI 1742-J)<br />
475 Mount St., Richmond.<br />
Harold L. Paige (OL 2-5040)<br />
5651 Oak Grove Ave., Oakland 9<br />
DOOR PRIZES:<br />
H. G. Sanders (KE 3-2211)<br />
4138 Eastlake Ave., Oakland 2.<br />
BLOOM DISPLAY:<br />
Bruce Harless (LA 5-8218)<br />
1301 Stannage Ave., Berkeley.<br />
RECEPTION:<br />
Charles W. Ehlers (GL 1-8295)<br />
785 Trestle Glen Road, Oakland 10<br />
O. E. Hopfer (AN 1-5737) ANNUAL <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SHOW:<br />
1872 Brentwood Road, Oakland. Chairman: D. L. Feathers<br />
BULLETIN EDITOR: 1 Camellia Lane, Lafayette 1<br />
Mrs. Barlow Hollingshead (Orinda 2054) Vice-Chairman: Walker M. Wells, M.D.<br />
12 La Cintilla Ave., Orinda. (HU 3-0951) 133 Hagar St., Piedmont.<br />
The Northern California Camellia Society is a non-profit organization of camellia fanciers<br />
interested in the culture, propagation, and development of camellias. Meetings are held on<br />
the first Monday in each month from October to May inclusive, at 8 p.m., at the Chabot School<br />
Auditorium, Oakland. Membership is open to all those with a serious interest in the subject.<br />
Annual dues $5.00. Membership application blanks may be obtained from Barlow W. S.<br />
Hollingshead, Secretary-Treasurer, 12 La Cintilla Avenue, Orinda, California.<br />
Published by the Northern California Camellia Society. Inc.<br />
Copyright, 1949<br />
INTERSOCIETY SPONSORING OF SHOW ISSUE<br />
We have the honor of announcing Show displayed such remarkable<br />
that the April, 1949, number - the blooms that C. Breschini of San Jose<br />
Show Issue of the BULLETIN is being carried off the Sweepstakes Award<br />
sponsored jointly by three Northern and many Sacramentans were high<br />
California organizations: Camellia So- on the multiple points list: A. R. Carciety<br />
of Santa Clara County, Camellia stensen, Mrs. Helen D. Brown, Mrs.<br />
Society of Sacramento, and Northern Carl M. Hoskinson, A. E. Morrison,<br />
California Camellia Society, Inc. and J. E. Bachman. At the Sacramento<br />
Show, on the other hand, many<br />
The BULLETIN Editor has attempted awards went to members of the Santa<br />
to report all three shows as well as Clara County and Northern California<br />
the Fourth Annual Convention of the Camellia Society groups, with C.<br />
American Camellia Society at Sacra- Breschini of San Jose again winning<br />
menta. Sweepstakes, Dr. Walker M. Wells of<br />
In glancing through the lists of Piedmont receiving the trophy for the<br />
prizes and awards, both at Berkeley best flower in the show, and Dr. G.<br />
and at Sacramento, the friendly ri- Myron Grismore the trophy for the<br />
valry between the three organizations best three blooms in the show. The<br />
is at once apparent. San Jose and San Jose Camellia Show is non-com-<br />
Sacramento exhibitors at the Berkeley petitive.
Northern California Camellia Society<br />
HUNTINGTON BOTANICAL GARDENS<br />
Camellia Test Garden<br />
By William Hertrich, Curator Emeritus<br />
Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California<br />
In the spring of 1912 Mr. Huntington<br />
asked the writer to suggest some<br />
sort of improvement suitable to a<br />
small canyon bordering the gardens<br />
to the west. This ravine extended<br />
from south to north for about 1000<br />
feet, narrow on both ends but widening<br />
to almost 500 feet through the<br />
center, was covered with live oaks<br />
with the exception of the center portion<br />
which in former years had<br />
served as a reservoir.<br />
This location seemed to lend itself<br />
admirably to development of an idea<br />
that Mr. Huntington wished to carry<br />
out: a Japanese Garden. After preparing<br />
a plan and specifications Mr.<br />
Huntington laid down one stipulation,<br />
to wit, completion of the picture in<br />
three months' time. Plants selected<br />
for this garden were to be indigenous<br />
to Japan and China, including azaleas,<br />
camellias, rhododendrons. Some<br />
of these plants I had already set out<br />
under the oaks on the higher slopes<br />
in 1909 and 1910, and under the live<br />
oaks north of the large residence.<br />
The Japanese Garden, now known<br />
as the Oriental Garden, became thus<br />
one of the many units to form a nucleus<br />
for a botanical collection of<br />
exotic plants on this extensive private<br />
estate. When I took the position of<br />
Superintendent on January L 1905,<br />
I proceeded step by step to landscape<br />
several hundred acres, beginning<br />
with the aquatic garden and the<br />
palm collection. Next in attention<br />
came the cactus garden, then a large<br />
rose and cut-flower planting; an extensive<br />
kitchen garden, berry plantings,<br />
fruit orchards, endless numbers<br />
of trees and shrubs to tie together<br />
the different units; and finally an intimate<br />
section devoted to ferns and<br />
cycads. The fruit tree developments<br />
included citrus, avocados and per-<br />
simmons, collectively covering considerable<br />
acreage.<br />
In 1919 Mr. Huntington established<br />
a trust indenture to perpetuate for the<br />
people of California his famous collection<br />
of eighteenth century English<br />
paintings and other art objects housed<br />
in the family residence. His private<br />
library also was considered one of<br />
the outstanding private libraries in<br />
the world, and a separate building<br />
was planned and constructed to<br />
house it. As garden setting for this<br />
remarkable cultural offering, two hundred<br />
acres of ground were set aside<br />
in the trust, with an endowment of<br />
funds to maintain the whole: Art Gallery,<br />
Library, Botanical Gardens.<br />
After the establishment of the trust<br />
indenture, the plant material within<br />
the 200-acre area took on added significance<br />
as a permanent feature, in<br />
place of its former aspect as a pleasure<br />
garden on a private family estate.<br />
Test Garden<br />
As stated above, some of the camellias<br />
had been planted as early as<br />
1909; others were added from time<br />
to time. As soon as seeds became<br />
available from the first plantings,<br />
young plants were raised and set<br />
out; propagations from cuttings were<br />
added from year to year, as well. In<br />
1915 I placed an order with Mr. Sasuki<br />
of the Yokohama Nursery Company<br />
of Japan. I had met him in San<br />
Francisco while attending the World's<br />
Fair. During our conversation pertaining<br />
to ornamental plants, camellias<br />
were mentioned and we talked at<br />
length on the subject. The result was<br />
a promise by Mr. Sasuki to send us<br />
a collection of selected varieties of<br />
camellias, after he had returned to<br />
his own country.<br />
The year passed and so did 1916<br />
and 1917, and by then I had given<br />
up hope of ever receiving the promised<br />
plants; but in the spring of 1918,<br />
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shortly before the U. S. quarantine<br />
restrictions on the importation of<br />
plants with soil attached became effective,<br />
the plants arrived - all in<br />
good condition. Some of these speciments<br />
were planted to the north of<br />
the Huntington residence; others<br />
under the oaks adjacent to the Oriental<br />
Gardens. Most of these plants are<br />
still growing in locations where originally<br />
planted.<br />
As the years passed, other varieties<br />
were added: in 1942 a major addition<br />
was made of 125 plants which<br />
boosted considerably the number of<br />
newer varieties. Some were acquired<br />
by purchase, others in exchange for<br />
camellia seed or seedlings, and some<br />
came to the gardens as contributions<br />
from an organization known as The<br />
Friends of the Huntington Library.<br />
The progressive increase in our collection<br />
of camellias became known<br />
to many a visitor to the Botanical Gardens-among<br />
them members of the<br />
Southern California Camellia Society.<br />
One member in particular of this<br />
Camellia Society, Anne Galli, approached<br />
the Curator regarding the<br />
possibility of cooperation between<br />
the Society and the Botanical Gardens,<br />
in establishing a camellia test<br />
garden in the natural setting of the<br />
Huntington Gardens, incorporating<br />
the already established varieties, and<br />
leaving ample space for additional<br />
species and varieties later. An arrangement<br />
was finally made between<br />
the Trustees of the Huntington Library<br />
and the Directors of the Southern<br />
California Camellia Society, that<br />
crowned the hopes of the Curator and<br />
members of the Society. It has been<br />
our earnest hope that this particular<br />
garden will become a thing of educational<br />
importance to all concerned,<br />
and continue to be a thing of beauty<br />
since the camellia is surely one of<br />
our most beautiful evergreen and<br />
flowering shrubs in existence.<br />
The Camellia Society members<br />
have taken an active part in supplying<br />
the garden with desirable scions<br />
and plants of varieties not hitherto<br />
represented in the collection. We had<br />
growing in the garden hundreds of<br />
strong seedlings of C. Japonica to be<br />
used as understock; consequently,<br />
grafted plants of sturdy growth could<br />
be developed in a comparatively<br />
short time. I have personally inserted<br />
many scions myself in understock<br />
three and four inches in diameter. (In<br />
such cases it is advisable to insert<br />
from four to six scions into the stock.)<br />
In the field of educational influence<br />
and cooperation among camellia horticulturists,<br />
further developments have<br />
been taking place between the Test<br />
Garden of the Huntington Gardens,<br />
and one situated in Gainesville, Florida,<br />
under the auspices of the American<br />
Camellia Society.<br />
The Camellia Test Garden, as a<br />
specialized unit of the Huntington<br />
Botanical Gardens, is in full accord<br />
with the principal functions and aims<br />
of the American Camellia Society as<br />
applied at the Gainesville station.<br />
With regard to advantageous exchange<br />
of plant material toward the<br />
building up of respective collections<br />
of camellias, the managements of<br />
both gardens enjoy the fullest cooperation<br />
under similar authority in<br />
each. One anticipated result of such<br />
cooperation is the ultimate clarifying<br />
of the nomenclature of the group of<br />
plants in question-at present one of<br />
the most confused aspects of this particular<br />
horticultural endeavor.<br />
It will, of course, take several years<br />
more to assemble and bring to maturity<br />
the vast number of varieties in<br />
the trade, both in our own and in<br />
other countries, before adequate or<br />
comprehensive survey can be undertaken<br />
and reported. Meanwhile the<br />
work goes on. But the most immediate<br />
purpose in mind is to acquire enough<br />
additional varieties to attempt complete<br />
clarification of the nomenclature,<br />
as a scholarly starting point for<br />
future benefits to the professional<br />
grower, to the trade, and to the amateur,<br />
with respect to C. Japonica and<br />
other species of the genus Camellia.
Northern California Camellia Society 5<br />
FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION of the AMERICAN <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SOCIETY<br />
The Fourth Annual Convention of<br />
the American Camellia Society was<br />
held in Sacramento on March 4, 5<br />
and 6, 1949, in conjunction with the<br />
Silver Anniversary Camellia Show of<br />
the Camellia Society of Sacramento.<br />
New officers are Arthur W. Solomon<br />
of Savannah, Ga., president;<br />
William T. Wood of Macon, Ga., vice<br />
president for the Atlantic Coast; S.<br />
Katz of Covington, La., vice president<br />
for the Gulf Coast; and Dr. William<br />
Hertrich of San Marino, California,<br />
vice president for the Pacific Coast.<br />
Lafayette, La., was selected as the<br />
1950 convention city.<br />
On Saturday afternoon, March 5,<br />
an open meeting was held in the<br />
Little Theater in Memorial Auditorium.<br />
There was a panel discussion by<br />
State Directors on "Camellias, Happenings<br />
Here and There." It was<br />
brought out that in various sections<br />
of the United States, camellia plants<br />
had survived freezing weather, snow,<br />
and even flood conditions, indicating<br />
their hardiness.<br />
Roy J. Wilmot, Chairman, presented<br />
the Committee Report on Registration<br />
of New Varieties and Nomenclature<br />
Clearance. So far there have been<br />
five varieties registered and about<br />
eight more are in process of registration.<br />
It was agreed that registration<br />
should be simplified as much as possible;<br />
that any new seedling sent in<br />
should be registered.<br />
Over a period of years, Mr. Wilmot<br />
has collected camellia varietal names,<br />
including nursery catalogs dating<br />
back to 1821 and literature. To date,<br />
he has four or five thousand varietal<br />
names, each on a separate sheet, giving<br />
description and source of information.<br />
Mr. Wilmot then discussed "Classification<br />
of Camellia Blossoms by<br />
Structural Forms." Classifications<br />
based on similarity to other flower<br />
forms are confusing, he said. Anemone<br />
form. They don't grow anemones<br />
in the South. Rose form. What<br />
Rose? Dr. Hume decided to work out<br />
a classification based on structure of<br />
the flower.<br />
A flower is composed of petals,<br />
stamens, pistil, sepals, Mr. Wilmot<br />
explained. The simplest flower has<br />
one row of petal bracts around base<br />
forming sepals. As flower changes,<br />
it becomes more and more complicated.<br />
These petals break up into<br />
more and more petals. Some of the<br />
sepals form petals. Stamens turn into<br />
petals. And even the pistil may be<br />
transformed into petals. Hume followed<br />
that process through from the<br />
very simple flower to the very double<br />
flower and classified according to the<br />
amount of transformation that had<br />
taken place. (Hume's Classification<br />
was used in the 1949 Show of the<br />
N.C.C.S. Ed.)<br />
Mr. Wilmot emphasized that in recommending<br />
flower classification for<br />
any show the flower should be set<br />
up primarily by variety if there are<br />
enough entries of one variety. (In<br />
both the Sacramento and Berkeley<br />
shows, a separate class was set up<br />
where there were seven or more entries<br />
of one variety. Ed.)<br />
A. P. Messenger, Chief, Bureau of<br />
Plant Quarantine, California State Department<br />
of Agriculture, talked on<br />
"Exchanging Scions and Plants; What<br />
Not to Do." Mr. Messenger explained<br />
that he is the man who puts up the<br />
"Stop" sign, tells people from other<br />
states, "You can't send in a plant,"<br />
and tells Californians, "You can't<br />
have the plants."<br />
Mr. Messenger then told how one<br />
may ship plant material without tangling<br />
with his organization. First,<br />
don't bring in plants or scions that<br />
might have a pest on them because<br />
they will cause you a lot of trouble<br />
and may cause your neighbor a lot<br />
of trouble. The purpose of plant quarantine<br />
is to prevent the introduction<br />
of plant products that might do irreparable<br />
harm. All plant products<br />
must bear inspection upon arrival. If<br />
they are not so clean as the inspector
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wants them to be, they will be rejected<br />
or given treatment. People<br />
should be disturbed about plant material<br />
that contains scale, bract weevil,<br />
moths, thrips, mites, nematodes,<br />
flower-blossom spotting. Californians<br />
should not send any plants or scions<br />
to other parts of California or to other<br />
states unless they are absolutely<br />
clean.<br />
K. Sawada, Overlook Nursery, Mobile,<br />
Alabama, was next on the program<br />
with his discussion of "Camellia<br />
Hybridization." Mr. Sawada said that<br />
his first dream for a future camellia<br />
is a fragrant flower.<br />
Mr. Sawada then referred to the research<br />
of Luther Burbank, in which<br />
he used thousands of verbena seedling<br />
plants. After much labor he<br />
found one little seedling flower with<br />
a scent. He isolated this plant, took<br />
the very best care of it, and obtained<br />
seed. Starting with this one little<br />
plant, he worked with generation<br />
after generation, making strict selections<br />
and finally succeeded in getting<br />
one strain which produced flowers<br />
with a scent. Probably a similar result<br />
could be obtained using camellias<br />
that have some fragrance. Cross them<br />
and make selections like Burbank<br />
did.<br />
"My next dream," said Mr. Sawada,<br />
"is to have a yellow or bluecolored<br />
camellia. Camellias have<br />
genes that produce color; but some<br />
of the genes are inhibited. Perhaps<br />
somehow it would be possible to<br />
change the chromosome pattern so<br />
as to obtain yellow flowers."<br />
The last number on the afternoon<br />
program was a talk on "Camellias,<br />
Their Use in Arrangements in Flower<br />
Shows," by Mrs. William T. Wood<br />
of Macon, Georgia, who is in charge<br />
of the Arrangement Contest. Last<br />
year there were 134 entries from all<br />
states except Oregon and Washington.<br />
Many do not realize that any<br />
member may submit a photograph of<br />
an arrangement that is made at any<br />
time. It does not have to be in competition<br />
in a show. A non-member<br />
can only submit an arrangement that<br />
is entered in a show given in cooperation<br />
with the American Camellia<br />
Society.<br />
Mrs. Wood does not advocate cutting<br />
with long stems or by the basketful.<br />
Very lovely effects, she said,<br />
can be obtained using the more common<br />
varieties like Sarah Frost, Pink<br />
Perfection, Jarvis Red. Just learn to<br />
use them in a charming, gracious<br />
way that is worthy of the camellia.<br />
At 6:30 in the evening, a Camellia<br />
Dinner was given at Hotel Senator.<br />
Carl M. Hoskinson, President of the<br />
Sacramento Camellia Society was<br />
Master of Ceremonies.<br />
Harold L. Paige, retiring vice president<br />
for the Pacific Coast, talked on<br />
"Purpose and Program of the American<br />
Camellia Society," the text of<br />
which appears elsewhere in this<br />
issue.<br />
"The Purpose and Use of the Illges<br />
Medal" was explained by Mr. William<br />
T. Wood of Macon, Georgia,<br />
vice president for the Atlantic Coast.<br />
Mr. Wood said that about two years<br />
ago some of the members of the<br />
American Camellia Society were discussing<br />
what to do to encourage hybridizers<br />
and amateurs to work for<br />
new seedling varieties. It was suggested<br />
that a medal be offered. John<br />
Illges of Columbus, Georgia, immediately<br />
offered to furnish such a<br />
medal. This year the John Illges<br />
Medal will be presented for the first<br />
time. To be eligible, the seedling<br />
must have been registered with the<br />
American Camellia Society; it must<br />
have won an Award of Merit of the<br />
American Camellia Society; and it<br />
must have been exhibited at a show<br />
held under their guidance. The actual<br />
gold medal was received by air mail<br />
during the convention, and Mr. Wood<br />
put it on display so that all in attendance<br />
could examine it. As time<br />
goes on, he explained, other requirements<br />
will be added. It will in time<br />
be the one award that will make a<br />
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Northern California Camellia Society<br />
<strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SOCIETY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY<br />
STAGES SEVENTH ANNUAL <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SHOW<br />
Perfect spring weather greeted<br />
more than 6500 persons who attended<br />
the Seventh Annual Camellia Show<br />
of· the Santa Clara County Camellia<br />
Society on Sunday, March 13, 1949,<br />
in the Ford salesrooms at 375 S. Market<br />
Street in San Jose.<br />
Highlight of the show and the feature<br />
which distinguishes this from all<br />
other camellia shows was the review<br />
table conducted by Ted Moniz, Past<br />
President of the society. On it was<br />
exhibited the best specimen of each<br />
variety included in the show, arranged<br />
according to color: white,<br />
blush, pale pink, deep pink, rose,<br />
red, variegated, in a spectrum-like<br />
array of great beauty. The table displayed<br />
167 named varieties grown by<br />
members, including both amateurs<br />
and professionals. No prizes or award<br />
ribbons are given; but a place on the<br />
review table is highly coveted, for<br />
a bloom must be outstanding in form,<br />
color, substance and size to be selected<br />
for this honor.<br />
The show featured more than 2500<br />
individual blooms grown by amateurs<br />
as well as a large number of<br />
commercial displays, including potted<br />
and trellised plants, specimen blooms<br />
and flower arrangements.<br />
Another interesting feature was the<br />
information table where growers received<br />
advice on camellia culture.<br />
The table was conducted by David T.<br />
Rayner assisted by members of the<br />
society.<br />
Six varieties, new to the Pacific<br />
coast, were shown for the first time.<br />
MAY MEETING<br />
They were Mrs. Freeman Weiss, Rosary,<br />
Tiara, Tina Guilliard, Louise<br />
Weick and Mary Charlotte.<br />
A group of 26 camellia flower arrangements<br />
were displayed by society<br />
members and wives and friends<br />
of members. A high standard of artistry<br />
was maintained. These arrangements<br />
were shown by Mrs. E. Swickard,<br />
Mrs. T. J. Moniz, Yvone Moniz,<br />
Mrs. Gordon Hornall, Dr. A. J. Bollert,<br />
N. B. Miller, Mrs. V. Haugaard, Mrs.<br />
Elroy Shank, Mrs. Richard Wells,<br />
Mrs. Albert Foster, Mrs. William Reagan,<br />
Mrs. A. H. Raymond Jr., Mrs.<br />
Jack Batten, Mrs. John E. Rhoads, Mrs.<br />
Louis P. Bergna.<br />
The annual no-prize show is the<br />
single event of the year staged by<br />
the Santa Clara County group. It was<br />
begun in 1942 with a small show in<br />
Hotel Sainte Claire attended by 1200<br />
persons. No show was held in 1943.<br />
The 1944 display, however, was seen<br />
by more than 2500 visitors. In succeeding<br />
years the show has been attended<br />
by an average of 6000 persons.<br />
The main objective of the all-men<br />
camellia society is to stimulate public<br />
interest in camellias and to encourage<br />
their planting throughout the<br />
County.<br />
Louis A. Bergna was general show<br />
manager. Officers of the group include<br />
Charles J. DeLorenzo, president;<br />
J. F. Smaha, vice-president, and<br />
V. Haugaard, secretary-treasurer.<br />
Fifty-seven men belong to the society.<br />
The May meeting of the Northern California Camellia Society, Inc.,<br />
will be held on Monday evening, May 2, 1949, at the Chabot School Auditorium<br />
on Chabot Road, about one-half mile east of College Avenue, at<br />
the corner of Patton Street, Oakland. Come and bring your blooms. This<br />
is the last meeting of this camellia season.<br />
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FOURTH ANNUAL <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SHOW<br />
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SOCIETY, INC.<br />
The Fourth Annual Camellia Show<br />
of the Northern California Camellia<br />
Society, Inc. was held at the Twentieth<br />
Century Club in Berkeley on Saturday<br />
and Sunday, March 19 and 20,<br />
1949.<br />
Some three thousand visitors were<br />
in attendance, and each lady was<br />
presented with a camellia corsage<br />
through the courtesy of Toichi Domoto<br />
Nursery, Hayward.<br />
Special Awards<br />
This year for the first time trophies<br />
were awarded as special prizes for<br />
horticultural exhibits. (The names of<br />
previous award winners were engraved<br />
on the cups.)<br />
The Sweepstakes Award Trophy of<br />
the Northern California Camellia Society<br />
went to C. Breschini of San Jose,<br />
who accumulated 59 award points.<br />
Runners-up were Dr. Walker M.<br />
Wells of Piedmont with 58 points; A.<br />
R. Carstensen of Sacramento with 46<br />
points; Barlow W. S. Hollingshead of<br />
Orinda with 36 points; and Dr. G.<br />
Myron Grismore of Oakland with 34<br />
points.<br />
The Paige Trophy for the most<br />
outstanding C. Japonica bloom was<br />
won by Dr. Walker M. Wells of Piedmont<br />
with his Mrs. Howard Asper,<br />
a large, pale-pink semi-double.<br />
Benjamin F. Enos of San Leandro<br />
was awarded the prize for the most<br />
outstanding C. Japonica plant in container,<br />
the Miss Sylvia May Wells<br />
Trophy, for his floriferous Bella Romana.<br />
It will be remembered that it<br />
was the magnificent Reticulata speciment<br />
plant of Mr. Enos that won the<br />
Award of Merit at last year's show.<br />
An Award of Merit was given Toichi<br />
Domoto Nursery, Hayward, for a<br />
garden planting, featuring camellias.<br />
An Award of Merit was also given<br />
the W. L. Stoeckles' complimentary<br />
exhibit, which was spectacular not<br />
only for the usual blue-ribbon quality<br />
of their blooms - perhaps sweep-<br />
stakes quality would be more exact<br />
- but also for the originality and simplicity<br />
of their arrangements. Upon<br />
entering the main auditorium, visitors<br />
faced a huge fan with a mass arrangement<br />
of Chandleri Elegans camellias<br />
on an ivory base, on the far wall.<br />
Below this was a grouping of camellia<br />
arrangements in old Chinese pewter<br />
containers: Ville de Nantes with pine<br />
needles; Gigantea with redbud; Shin<br />
Akebono and Lady Clare Vgt., each<br />
with camellia foliage.<br />
Complimentary Exhibits<br />
Capitol Grounds, Sacramento, under<br />
the direction of Jerry Olrich, State<br />
Gardener, displayed over a hundred<br />
named varieties of camellias from<br />
their gardens which contain some<br />
1600 camellia plants and about 600<br />
named varieties. If you were impressed<br />
with this colorful and instructive<br />
exhibit, don't fail to visit the Capitol<br />
Grounds during the month of<br />
March and marvel at "the aristocrats<br />
of the garden" at the height of their<br />
bloom.<br />
Another complimentary exhibit of<br />
blooms which must have warmed the<br />
hearts of all camellia lovers, was presented<br />
by that dear lady, Mrs. Frank<br />
Edinger of Rosebud Farm at Hood,<br />
about 16 miles below Sacramento on<br />
the Sacramento river. Some of these<br />
seedlings were the offspring of her<br />
famous Wakanoura tree, which is<br />
thought to be the largest in the United<br />
States. It was planted by her father,<br />
an l3arly pioneer, some seventy-five<br />
years ago.<br />
A "thank you" exhibit of blooms<br />
came by air express from Portland,<br />
Oregon, from the camellia garden of<br />
the Gene Grischow family, guests of<br />
Dr. and Mrs. G. Myron Grismore on<br />
the recent Camellia Tour.<br />
Commercial Exhibits<br />
Courtesy exhibits of camellia plants<br />
and hundreds of outstanding speci-
10 Northern California Camellia Society<br />
SILVER ANNIVERSARY OF SACRAMENTO <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SHOW<br />
The Silver Anniversary Camellia<br />
Show of the Camellia Society of Sacramento<br />
was held in the spacious<br />
Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento<br />
on Saturday and Sunday, March 5<br />
and 6, 1949, and was attended by<br />
many thousands of visitors, not only<br />
from all sections or California, but<br />
from the Pacific Northwest and the<br />
Deep South as well.<br />
Dr. Walker M. Wells of Piedmont<br />
won the Mrs. W. H. Pisani Trophy<br />
for the most outstanding flower in the<br />
show with his Shin Akebono, a blushpink<br />
single with prominent stamens<br />
and fine texture.<br />
Dr. G. Myron Grismore of Oakland<br />
won the Charles E. Nicholas Trophy<br />
for the best display of three blossoms<br />
with his Tea Garden strain of Donckelari,<br />
a richly-variegated, red-andwhite<br />
semi-double of fine substance.<br />
D. L. Sprague of Sacramento won<br />
the Chamber of Commerce Trophy<br />
for the best collection of named varieties<br />
with his exquisite, rare and unusual<br />
blooms.<br />
The Dr. Oscar F. Johnson Trophy<br />
for the best tray of seven camellias<br />
was won by Edwin T. Bedell of Sacramento<br />
wtih his outstanding flowers.<br />
David L. Feathers of Lafayette, President<br />
of the Northern California Camellia<br />
Society, was awarded the Mrs.<br />
T. L. Ryan Trophy for the best tray of<br />
eleven camellias with his stunning<br />
white Finlandias, which were well<br />
matched in size and form.<br />
The coveted Sweepstakes Award<br />
Trophy of the Camellia Society of<br />
Sacramento went to C. Breschini of<br />
San Jose, prominent in the affairs of<br />
the Camellia Society of Santa Clara<br />
County.<br />
Mrs. William H. Mills of Sacramento<br />
carried off the prize for the<br />
most outstanding flower arrangement,<br />
the Norman F. Schwilk Trophy, in the<br />
face of keen competition.<br />
Arthur E. Mohr, Show Manager<br />
and Counselor of the Camellia Soci-<br />
ety of Sacramento, won the prize for<br />
the best dsplay of three potted camellias,<br />
the Nurserymen's Ass'n. Award.<br />
The Gold Certificate of the American<br />
Camellia Society was awarded<br />
C. Breschini of San Jose; and the Silver<br />
Certificate was awarded David L.<br />
Feathers of Lafayette.<br />
CLASSES AND AWARDS<br />
1. SINGLE. One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Shin Akebono)<br />
2-Frank Williams (Pink Poppy)<br />
3-Elizabeth Mackall (Apple Blossom)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (John IIIges)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (John IlIges)<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells (Pink Hibiscus)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen (Amabilis)<br />
2-Frank Williams (Miss Sacramento)<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells (Sarasa)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Mrs. D. Early (Amabilis)<br />
2-Edwin Bedell (Amabilis)<br />
3-A. E. Morrison (Sierra Belle)<br />
2. SINGLE. Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Shin Akebono)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Hibiscus)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (Pink Daffodil)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-I. M. Lera (Christmas Red)<br />
2-H. V. Mitchell (Kreena)<br />
. 3-H. L. Paige (John IIIges)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Sarasa)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Amabilis)<br />
3-None<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Mrs. Helen Bachman (Sierra Belle)<br />
2-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Amabilis)<br />
3-Mrs. D. Early (Amabilis)<br />
HM-D. L. Feathers (Apple Blossom)<br />
3. SEMI-DOUBLE. One Bloom.<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Tiara)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Pink Glory)<br />
3-H. L. Paige (Lady Mary Cromartie)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-C. Breschini (Flame)<br />
2-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Onigi)<br />
3-Frank Williams (Frizzle White)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Mrs. B. C. Erwin (Lotus)<br />
2-H. L. Paige (Lotus)<br />
3-Frank Williams (Lotus)<br />
HM-Mrs. F. M. Scatena (Lotus)
NAGASAKI<br />
I-C. Breschini<br />
2-Mrs. B. C. Erwin<br />
3-C. Breschini<br />
4. SEMI-DOUBLE. Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
. I-Mrs. Ron Simpson (Rainy Sun)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Pink Glory)<br />
3-None<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Flame)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Marion Mitchell)<br />
3-None<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Dr. L. H. Crowl (Wakanoura)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Anita)<br />
3-A. W. Sheean (Nagasaki)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Finlandia)<br />
2-A. E. Mohr (Unknown)<br />
3-None<br />
5. LOOSE SEMI-DOUBLE.<br />
One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-John C. Gist, Jr. (English<br />
Magnoliaflora)<br />
2-Pearl Blauth (Magnoliaflora)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (Rev. John Drayton)<br />
HM-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
(Mrs. Freeman Weiss)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Frank Benedict (Courthouse Red)<br />
2-Rose Lee (Rainy Sun)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (California)<br />
HM-J. E. Miller (Madam Jannoch)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Mrs. Byron Davis (White Daikagura)<br />
2-Mary Gregson (Imura)<br />
3-H. Miller (Summer Beauty)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Frank Williams (Ettien Debiora)<br />
2-Frank Williams (Matsukasa)<br />
3-Linda Murfrey (Monjusu)<br />
DONCKELARI<br />
I-C. M. Hoskinson<br />
2-Dr. G. M. Grismore<br />
3-Mrs. B. C. Erwin<br />
HM-Norman Schwilk<br />
6. LOOSE SEMI-DOUBLE.<br />
Three Blooms.<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Mrs. H. E. Bradley (Rainy Sun)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Regina dei Giganti)<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
(Mrs. Freeman Weiss)<br />
HM-J. E. Miller (Jannoch)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Donckelari)<br />
2-H. V. Mitchell (Donckelari)<br />
3-C. Breschini (Aspasia)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Mrs. Byron Davis (Triphosa)<br />
2.3-None<br />
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7. ROSEFORM IRREGULAR.<br />
One Bloom.<br />
PIINK<br />
I-Mrs. Albert Anderson (Pink Ball)<br />
2-Mrs. Albert Anderson (Pink Ball)<br />
3-Carl Hoskinson (High Hat)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Marie Bosworth (Imperator)<br />
2-Arthur Mohr (Te Deum)<br />
3-Mrs. Ellsworth Earle (Daikagura Red)<br />
HM-L. I. Snyder (Daikagura Red)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
. I-Pearl Blauth (Daikagura)<br />
2-Frank Williams (Daikagura)<br />
3-H. L. Paige (A. Audusson)<br />
HM-Henry Hauser (Aspasia)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-D. L. Feathers (Dearest)<br />
2-Walter Christopher (Dearest)<br />
3-Edwin Bedell (Haku Rakuten)<br />
HM-Edwin Bedell (White Crane)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-H. L. Paige (Te Deum)<br />
2-Byron Davis (Daikagura)<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells (A. Audusson)<br />
8. ROSEFORM IRREGULAR.<br />
Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Rose Glory)<br />
2-H. L. Paige (Pink Star)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (Herme Pink)<br />
HM-C. Breschini (Marie Keating)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (A. Audusson)<br />
2-William H. Harrington (Lady Campbell)<br />
3-Marie Bosworth (Imperator)<br />
HM-H. A. Wescott (Blood of China)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-R. E. Hawtry (Herme)<br />
2-D. L. Feathers (Fragrant Striped)<br />
3-Elizabeth Mackall (Herme)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-D. L. Feathers (Finlandia)<br />
2. 3-None<br />
9. ANEMONEFORM. One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-C. Breschini (Mrs. Charles Cobb)<br />
2-Albert Anderson (Governor Mouton)<br />
3-Mrs. George Star (Warratah)<br />
RED OR ROSE - VEDRINE<br />
I-Pearl Blauth<br />
2-C. Breschini<br />
3-S. C. Wortley<br />
HM-A. R. Carstensen<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Ann Nash (Emperor Wilhelm)<br />
2-A. R. Stevens (Bidwell)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (Vedrine Vgt)<br />
PROF. SARGENT<br />
I-Mary Gregson<br />
2-Mrs. J. J. Mackall<br />
3-H. A. Wescott<br />
HM-C. Wallaver<br />
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12 Northern California Camellia Society<br />
HOW THE <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> CAME TO CALIFORNIA<br />
By A. E. Morrison, Director-at-Large,<br />
American Camellia Society, Sacramento<br />
The discovery of gold at Coloma,<br />
fifty miles east of Sutter's Fort (Sacramento)<br />
in 1848 was indirectly responsible<br />
for the early introduction of the<br />
camellia to California. Among the adventurers<br />
rushing to the gold mines<br />
were men with vision and foresight<br />
who sensed the business possibilities<br />
of the new region. In this group was<br />
a man by the name of James L. L. F.<br />
Warren, a New Englander. A biography<br />
of Mr. Warren is not available<br />
and because of its absence there are<br />
a few missing incidents in the story<br />
of how the camellia was brought to<br />
California, but the honor of its introduction<br />
belongs to him.<br />
Boston, Massachusetts, in the first<br />
half of the nineteenth century, became<br />
the leading camellia center of<br />
the United States. Mr. Warren, before<br />
coming to California, operated the<br />
Warren's Floral Saloon in that city<br />
and also the Warren's Garden and<br />
Nurseries, Nonantum Vale, Brighton,<br />
nearby. In his catalog of 1845 is a<br />
list of eighty-seven named varieties of<br />
camellias with mention being made<br />
of a number of unnamed seedlings.<br />
Mr. Marshall P. Wilder, President<br />
of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society,<br />
was interested in camellias and<br />
had developed a number of varieties.<br />
Two outstanding varieties were<br />
named Mrs. Abby Wilder and WilderE.<br />
These two were purchased by<br />
Mr. Warren in 1847 for $1000.00 and<br />
taken by him to England. While in<br />
Europe he visited many of the famous<br />
gardens and camellia nurseries in<br />
England, France and Belgium. Having<br />
disposed of his nursery at Boston,<br />
he was free to follow the Gold Rush<br />
to California, but instead of going to<br />
the mines he established a business<br />
at No. 15 J Street, Sacramento, in<br />
1851, doing business under the name<br />
of Warren & Co. He was an energetic<br />
man whose operations included a<br />
truck line into the mines and a branch<br />
store at Morman Island, east of Sacramento.<br />
His interest in horticulture<br />
was paramount, and the Warren &<br />
Co.'s New England Seed Store became<br />
a part of his enterprises in Sacramento.<br />
Advertisements of the New<br />
England Seed Store were printed in<br />
newspapers in January, 1852, announcing<br />
the expected arrival of a<br />
shipment of plants and seed. The<br />
anticipated shipment arrived and in<br />
the February 7, 1852, issue of the<br />
SACRAMENTO UNION this announcement<br />
appeared:<br />
TO FARMERS AND GARDENERS:<br />
3,000 pounds Fresh Garden Seeds.<br />
-We have received by the Panama,<br />
the finest lot of fresh Garden Seeds<br />
to be found in the country. OUR<br />
SEEDS ARE WARRANTED FRESH.<br />
The assortment contains every kind<br />
of seed; many of them entirely new<br />
varieties, and to be found nowhere<br />
else in this country.<br />
Also 3,000 papers FLOWER SEEDS,<br />
of new and beautiful kinds. Herb<br />
seeds of every valuable kind.<br />
A splendid set of Dahlia Roots,<br />
Roses, Camellias, Grape Vines, Bulbous<br />
Roots, etc. will be ready for<br />
examination in our hall over the store<br />
on Monday.<br />
Warren & Co.'s New England Seed<br />
________Store, J Street near Levee. _<br />
Marine Intelligence, covering the<br />
arrival of the Pacific Mail Company's<br />
steamer PANAMA, mentions its arrival<br />
in San Francisco on February 3,<br />
1852 "from Panama via Acapulco<br />
and San Diego carrying 484 passengers<br />
and 40 females."<br />
This advertisement by Warren &<br />
Co.'s New England Seed Store is the<br />
earliest printed information concerning<br />
camellias in California. Specific<br />
varieties are not mentioned; however,<br />
subsequent articles, in Mr. Warren's<br />
CALIFORNIA FARMER, indicate that<br />
at least the following varieties were<br />
included in the first shipment: Alba
Plena, Fimbriata, Mrs. ·Abby Wilder,<br />
Wilderii and Lady Hume's Blush.<br />
The origin of the plants has not<br />
been established but material on<br />
hand indicates the shipment was<br />
trans-shipped across the Isthmus of<br />
Panama, loaded on the S.S. PANAMA<br />
at Panama City, thence to San Francisco,<br />
where the portion of the cargo,<br />
including the camellia plants, consigned<br />
to Sacramento, was transferred<br />
to river boats.<br />
Mr. Warren's faith in Sacramento<br />
and California as a camellia-growing<br />
center has been substantiated. His<br />
prediction in 1853 that "This truly<br />
magnificent plant unsurpassed in<br />
loveliness will ere long become acclimated<br />
with us to form our pride<br />
as an ornamental tree in our gardens,"<br />
has been fulfilled. A nursery<br />
catalog issued by his firm in 1853-54<br />
carried the statement that "We are<br />
now constantly receiving collections<br />
from the best establishments in Europe<br />
and the United States; and our<br />
collection will be unequalled. The<br />
proprietors have just received a new<br />
and superb collection of rare kinds,<br />
from the most celebrated growers in<br />
Europe. A separate sheet catalogue<br />
will be issued in the autumn of 1854,<br />
giving a description of their character,<br />
etc., with their prices, etc."<br />
Mr. Warren was a man sincerely<br />
interested in agriculture, and he held<br />
annual displays of horticultural products<br />
in his Show Rooms at Sacramento<br />
as well as in San Francisco,<br />
where his activities were being transferred.<br />
These expositions led directly<br />
to the establishing of the California<br />
State Fair, the first one of which was<br />
held in San Francisco on October 6,<br />
1854. He was the first secretary and<br />
was largely responsible for establishing<br />
the fair as an annual event. It is<br />
not a surprise, therefore, considering<br />
this man's background, to find listed<br />
in the floricultural section of the first<br />
California State Fair an exhibition of<br />
the following varieties of camellia<br />
plants: Double White, Fimbriata, Candidissima,<br />
Caleb Cope, Duchesse<br />
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d'Orleans, Double Red and Lady<br />
Hume. The Lady Hume is mentioned<br />
as being in flower. The exhibitors<br />
showing camellias were: W. and T<br />
O'DonnelL C. V. Gillespie, and W. C.<br />
Walker.<br />
Camellias appeared in San Francisco<br />
at an early date and the CALI<br />
FORNIA FARMER, issue of February<br />
2, 1854, carries an advertisement of<br />
W. C. Walker, San Francisco, calling<br />
attention to his stock of camellias,<br />
roses and geraniums. The Golden<br />
Gate Nursery, in August of 1854, advertised<br />
seventy varieties of camellias<br />
for sale.<br />
Interest in camellias in Sacramento<br />
was well established, and when Warren<br />
moved his headquarters to San<br />
Francisco the planting of camellias<br />
continued. Mr. A. P. Smith established<br />
a sizable outdoor planting and<br />
proved that this plant was adapted.<br />
to the climate and soil of the Sacramento<br />
area without resorting to arti-<br />
.£icial protection. Mr. Warren, in the<br />
CALIFORNIA FARMER, March 26,<br />
1858, had this to say about Smith's<br />
Gardens:<br />
"Among all the most gorgeous and<br />
beautiful gems in fair Flora's realm<br />
none can surpass L'Camellia, and<br />
however much we esteem its beauties,<br />
and worship its loveliness, we<br />
have never seen it bloom to such perfection<br />
in any country as this our<br />
adopted State, California. We have<br />
gazed for hours upon the finest<br />
blooms in England, in France, and in<br />
Belgium, as well as in various parts<br />
of the Union, yet, we are free to say,<br />
we have never seen such perfect<br />
blossoms in a group of the different<br />
kinds and colors as we saw, two<br />
weeks since at Smith's Gardens, Sacramento.<br />
We have seen the grand<br />
collection at Walker's Garden, at<br />
O'Donnell's, and those of Sontag on<br />
the Mission Road; but they were<br />
under glass, while those to which we<br />
now allude were grown by Smith's<br />
gardens, out-door culture, and we<br />
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14 Northern California Camellia Society<br />
PURPOSE AND PROGRAM OF THE AMERICAN <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SOCIETY<br />
By Harold L. Paige, retiring Vice President<br />
American Camellia Society<br />
Mr. Chairman, Members of the<br />
American Camellia Society and<br />
Guests:<br />
The subject of my talk this evening<br />
should, I believe, be changed<br />
somewhat. "Program and Aims of the<br />
American Camellia Society as Seen<br />
From the Pacific Coast." I am sure<br />
there are others who are closer to<br />
headquarters who have a better<br />
knowledge of what the Society's program<br />
and purposes are, than 1. But<br />
I can give you some of the reactions<br />
I have noted here in the West since<br />
this organization began some three<br />
and one-half years ago.<br />
When the 1946 Year Book first appeared<br />
on the Pacific Coast, those of<br />
us who saw it were delighted with it<br />
.We could hardly wait to get our subscriptions<br />
in. It was just what we had<br />
always wanted. After a year had gone<br />
by, we looked forward expectantly<br />
to the 1947 Year Book. It didn't come.<br />
We heard some grumbling, and some<br />
threatened to drop their subscriptions.<br />
Finally it came. And it was an exceptionally<br />
fine number. It more than<br />
made up for the delay in the printer's<br />
hands. All was forgiven. But you can<br />
see that so far we were chiefly concerned<br />
with what we could get individually<br />
from the American Camellia<br />
Society.<br />
To be quite realistic about it, it was<br />
the quality of the Year Books which<br />
sold us on the new society. And here,<br />
I think credit should be given where<br />
credit is due,- to Mr. R. 1. Wilmot<br />
and to his assistants, whoever they<br />
may have been. They have done a<br />
magnificent job and much of the<br />
early growth of the Society can be<br />
credited to their work. These year<br />
books are simply invaluable to the<br />
serious camellia grower, both as a<br />
text and a reference book. Incidentally,<br />
the 1946 and 1947 books are<br />
now out of print and will soon be collectors'<br />
items.<br />
From this restricted VISIon of the<br />
American Camellia Society as the<br />
publisher of a fine Year Book, we<br />
have seen the beginnings of a broader<br />
and more varied national program.<br />
At last, through our own cooperation<br />
with a national society, we have an<br />
opportunity to end the confusion in<br />
our nomenclature which has plagued<br />
us for so long, and probably cost all<br />
of us a good many dollars. Now we<br />
can centralize our registration in one<br />
National headquarters. We have our<br />
friends in the Southern California Camellia<br />
Society to thank for making<br />
this possible. They were first to organize<br />
their own system of registration,<br />
but for the sake of national uniformity<br />
they have agreed to clear<br />
their registrations with the American<br />
Society. This is a very gracious thing<br />
for them to do.<br />
Again, we realize that flower classification<br />
has been a difficult problem.<br />
Through the general adoption of Dr.<br />
Harold Hume's system, which is<br />
based solely upon botanical considerations,<br />
it is now possible to describe<br />
a given variety and have it<br />
mean the same thing to a reader in<br />
Seattle, Los Angeles or Savannah,<br />
Georgia. That is real progress. No<br />
longer do we have to know which<br />
rose or which peony is referred to<br />
when a variety is being described.<br />
There are other important projects<br />
which the Society is undertaking,<br />
which I cannot do more than mention<br />
- such as test gardens, research,<br />
awards of merit, and so on. We will<br />
be well rewarded by these efforts as<br />
time goes on.<br />
Now let us look at our Society from<br />
a different angle. To most of us, camellias<br />
are a hobby and, as a hobby,<br />
a source of real enjoyment. Our national<br />
society can be the means of<br />
bringing us into contact with others<br />
who enjoy our hobby all over the nation,<br />
as well as up and down the
Pacific Coast. I remember when attending<br />
the annual meeting of the<br />
Business Men's Garden Club of<br />
American in Portland, two years ago,<br />
seeing the name of Arthur Solomon<br />
of Savannah, Georgia, on the list of<br />
delegates. Immediately I remembered<br />
reading an article by him in the 1946<br />
Year Book called "The Trials and Tribulations<br />
of a Camellia Collector."<br />
Well I have had some trials and tribulations<br />
too, so I thought we ought<br />
to get together. We did have such an<br />
opportunity a month later when Judge<br />
Solomon was attending the Rotary<br />
Convention in San Francisco. We<br />
spent a day visiting camellia growers<br />
and I think we both felt that it was<br />
a day well spent.<br />
The American Camellia Society,<br />
through this annual meeting in Sacramento,<br />
has brought to California<br />
many of you whose names have likewise<br />
become familiar to us through<br />
your contributions to the Year Book.<br />
Weare most happy to have you with<br />
us and hope our hospitality will live<br />
up to our Western tradition. We hope<br />
that after you have talked camellias<br />
with us far into the night, you too<br />
will find that whatever sleep is left<br />
to you, will be refreshed by the<br />
thoughts of another day well spent.<br />
In view of these fine values which<br />
I have mentioned, some of us who<br />
have taken time to think about it,<br />
have been troubled by the lack of<br />
response on the part of our local societies.<br />
Why are there only a handful<br />
of us who are members of the National?<br />
Why do we not have 50 percent<br />
or more of our local members<br />
in the American Society, as is required<br />
for affiliation? I think this is<br />
the answer. Experience of the last<br />
three years has brought to light certain<br />
basic weaknesses in our Charter<br />
and By Laws. The organizational pattern<br />
not only by-passes the local societies,<br />
but it also enters into active<br />
competition with them for memberships,<br />
instead of offering a program<br />
that would encourage individuals to<br />
join and work through their own<br />
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locals. Furthermore, three thousand<br />
individual members scattered all over<br />
the United States cannot possibly<br />
function as effectively on a national<br />
level as they could if working directly<br />
through their own local societies. As<br />
an example of what I mean, take this<br />
Convention. Mr. Wilmot could not<br />
write to Mr. Morrison and say to him,<br />
"Will you please arrange an annual<br />
meeting for us in March?" No, it<br />
couldn't be done by one or two individuals.<br />
It had to be done through<br />
a Society. So the Sacramento Society<br />
took over the job and we have it to<br />
thank for a fine piece of work. Our<br />
locals need the American Society.<br />
Equally, the American Society needs<br />
the local societies. Bringing more of<br />
the locals into the national framework<br />
is one of the most important projects<br />
for the American Society to undertake<br />
in the immediate future. Weare<br />
fortunate that the founders of this Society<br />
had the wisdom and vision to<br />
make By Law revision a very simple<br />
matter, easily accomplished.<br />
In order to achieve this end, a<br />
Committee should be appointed to<br />
study our Charter and By Laws and<br />
to sound out our local groups as to<br />
what kind of an organizational framework<br />
they will be willing to accept.<br />
At least a year should be devoted to<br />
this study. If it is done carefully and<br />
seriously, I am sure that proper ways<br />
will be found to greatly increase the<br />
usefulness and influence of our Society.<br />
This can be done without weakening<br />
or competing with our local<br />
groups. It should not be too much to<br />
expect that the American Camellia<br />
Society will have at least 2000 members<br />
on the Pacific Coast in the not<br />
too distant future.<br />
I am sure that all of us here are<br />
glad to know that such a Committee<br />
has been authorized by the Board of<br />
Directors at an earlier session today.<br />
To you who have come from the<br />
Southland to attend this meeting, to<br />
you who attended that first meeting<br />
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16 Northern California Camellia Society<br />
CUNNINGHAME'S <strong>CAMELLIA</strong>S IN THE SLOANE HERBARIUM<br />
By H. Harold Hume, President Emeritus<br />
American Camellia Society<br />
Nearly two and a half centuries<br />
ago camellias were introduced to the<br />
western botanical-horticultural world.<br />
To be exact, the date was 1702. In<br />
that year, James Petiver, a London<br />
apothecary whose place of business<br />
was on Aldersgate Street, presented<br />
a paper at a meeting of the Royal<br />
Society in which he described a camellia<br />
and in his own publication,<br />
entitled "Gasophylacii Naturae and<br />
Artis," illustrated it. The description<br />
he gave is as follows:<br />
"93. Thea CHINENSIS Pimentae Jamaicensis<br />
folio, flore Rosaceo simplici<br />
Gaz. nost. Nat. Tab. 33. Fig 4.<br />
"Swa Tea s. Cha hoa Chinens.<br />
Herb. nost. Chin. pict. Tab. vi. Fig. xi.<br />
"Hoa in the Chinese Language signifies<br />
a Flower; and this Plant has a<br />
very beautiful one, for which reason<br />
and the variation of them (some being<br />
single and of a deep red as this, others<br />
white and some strip'd, there are<br />
also of these Colours with double<br />
Flowers) they and the Japoneze keep<br />
them as an Ornament in their Gardens.<br />
"Of these Leaves some are rounder,<br />
others pointed, they have the shape<br />
and stiffness of the Allspice or Jamaica<br />
Pepper, are somewhat serrated<br />
and grow irregularly on short thick<br />
footstalks, the young Flower-bud is<br />
scal'd like a Cone, when larger the<br />
squama are whitish and Velvetty,<br />
except the edges which are brown<br />
and transparent. The Flowers deep<br />
red, 5 Leaved and as big as a single<br />
Rose, and like it full of threads with<br />
yellow spices or beads. The Fruit<br />
about the bigness of a Chestnut,<br />
somewhat triangular, including under<br />
a very thick woody shell several<br />
seeds disposed into 3 Cells. It flowers<br />
in February."<br />
Petiver's illustration of camellia in<br />
the Gazophylacii consists of a twig<br />
with four leaves, two flower buds<br />
and two flowers, one with a side<br />
view, the other full face.<br />
Where did Petiver obtain the information<br />
on camellias contained in<br />
his paper in the Philosophical Transactions<br />
of the Royal Society? He<br />
stated clearly, in the heading of his<br />
article, where it came from, in part<br />
at least. The title is as follows,- "A<br />
description of some coralls and other<br />
curious Submarines lately sent to<br />
James Petiver, apothecary, and Fellow<br />
of the Royal Society, from the<br />
Philippine Isles by the Reverend<br />
George Joseph Cammel; as also an<br />
account of some plants from Chusan<br />
an Island on the coast of China; collected<br />
by James Cunninghame, Chyrugen<br />
& F.R.S." It is with the latter<br />
part of the this title that we are concerned<br />
here.<br />
The paper in question, presented<br />
in 1702 and published in the Transactions<br />
in 1704, has this subheading,<br />
"The Chusan plants received from<br />
Mr. James Cunninghame are as follows"<br />
and item 93 is the camellia<br />
description already quoted. A careful<br />
reading of this description leads to<br />
the conclusion that Petiver could not<br />
have written it without help from<br />
some one who had seen the camellia<br />
plants growing and in flower and fruit<br />
and that person probably was James<br />
Cunninghame (also spelled without<br />
the final e.)<br />
Petiver maintained a museum and<br />
the dried specimens of the camellia,<br />
as well as many other plants, were<br />
part of that museum. It must have<br />
been a collection of size and importance<br />
for at one time Sir Hans Sloane<br />
offered Petiver £4000 for it, a large<br />
amount of money in those days. After<br />
the death of Petiver in 1718, his museum<br />
passed into the hands of Sir<br />
Hans Sloane, celebrated physician<br />
and botanist, to become, later, part of<br />
the Sloane collections with which the<br />
British Museum (Natural History) was<br />
opened in London in 1759.<br />
There are four specimens of what<br />
now is known as Camellia iaponica<br />
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18 Northern California Camellia Society<br />
GROWING <strong>CAMELLIA</strong>S IN CONTAINERS<br />
By Barlow W. S. Hollingshead, Secretary-Treasurer<br />
Northern California Camellia Society, Inc.<br />
Growing camellias in containers requires<br />
specialized culture and care to<br />
produce strong, healthy plants and<br />
obtain quality flowers.<br />
Assuming that container culture is<br />
to be followed throughout the life of<br />
a camellia plant, frequently the case<br />
in California, I shall discuss the various<br />
stages of growing camellias in<br />
containers, starting with rooted cuttings<br />
and seedlings.<br />
Rooted Cuttings and Seedlings<br />
The initial potting of young camellia<br />
plants is one of the most important<br />
steps in the process of growing<br />
sturdy, healthy plants. The texture<br />
and content of the soil and the size<br />
of container are equally important<br />
factors in the development of a strong,<br />
well-developed root system. A good<br />
root system is essential to maintain<br />
vigorous health and growth throughout<br />
the life of the plant.<br />
After the cuttings are well rooted<br />
in the starting bed, they should be<br />
gently lifted preparatory to potting.<br />
Three to twelve months' time is required<br />
to root cuttings in the startingbed,<br />
depending upon the variety,<br />
light and temperature conditions during<br />
this initial propagating period.<br />
The size of the container to be used<br />
in potting rooted cuttings depends<br />
upon the size of the root system. Varieties<br />
such as Sarah Frost, Tricolor<br />
Sieboldi and its many seedlings,<br />
which develop long, rambling root<br />
systems, should be placed in sixinch<br />
pots or gallon metal or wood<br />
containers. This affords space for the<br />
roots to spread outward and downward,<br />
forming the framework for a<br />
well-developed root system. Plants in<br />
the above size containers may remain<br />
for two years before repotting.<br />
Varieties such as Pink Perfection,<br />
Purity, and Mathotiana, that develop<br />
compact, fibrous root systems, may<br />
be planted in four-inch pots or in one-<br />
quart metal containers or slightly<br />
larger ones. Plants may remain in<br />
these containers for one year, at<br />
which time they should be repotted<br />
into gallon-size containers.<br />
To illustrate, I have here three potted<br />
plants, which indicate the size of<br />
containers to be used at the various<br />
stages of potting and the size and<br />
growth of plants that may be obtained<br />
during the first two years. The first is<br />
a Mathotiana rooted cutting that was<br />
potted in this one-quart metal container<br />
in October 1948, and will remain<br />
there for one year or until the<br />
fall of 1949. The second is a Sarah<br />
Frost rooted cutting that was taken<br />
directly from the cutting-bed and potted<br />
in this gallon container one year<br />
ago. It is now 13 inches tall and will<br />
remain in this container for another<br />
year. Sarah Frost develops several<br />
lateral roots 5 to 6 inches long during<br />
the initial rooting period. Such a root<br />
system should never be crowded into<br />
a 2Yz or 3-inch pot as a deformed root<br />
system will result. The third plant is a<br />
Duchess of Sutherland and is slightly<br />
over 2 years old from the date the cutting<br />
was taken. It is now 28 inches<br />
tall, quite well branched and has two<br />
flower buds. It was potted in a onequart<br />
container in the spring of 1947,<br />
where it remained until the winter of<br />
1948, when it was repotted into this<br />
gallon container. It is now ready to<br />
be repotted into a three-gallon container.<br />
The growth of these plants<br />
refutes the common statement that<br />
rooted camellia cuttings should first<br />
be potted in 2Yz-inch pots.<br />
In preparing wood or metal containers,<br />
place three-quarter-inch holes<br />
on four sides just above the bottom.<br />
This affords perfect drainage at all<br />
times as the holes never become<br />
plugged with soil. Place %-inch of<br />
Yz-inch blue crushed rock or small<br />
pebbles in the bottom of container.<br />
Cover the rock with a layer of wood
shavings (I use redwood and pine<br />
shavings mixed), then cover the shavings<br />
with peet moss. The shavings<br />
and peet moss act as a sponge to<br />
hold the moisture and as' a filter to<br />
prevent fine particles of soil from<br />
washing into the drainage field. The<br />
pot is now ready for the soil mixture.<br />
Fill the container half full of prepared<br />
soil and firm with the fingers,<br />
making a cone in the center. Place<br />
the roots of the young plant over the<br />
cone so that they point outward and<br />
downward in all directions. Hold the<br />
stem of the plant in the center of the<br />
container with one hand and fill in<br />
soil mix with the other and firm until<br />
the soil is about I inch above the<br />
root crown. Mulch the top with about<br />
I inch of pine needles and water<br />
thoroughly until drainage is observed<br />
from the bottom of the container.<br />
Place the young plant in a shaded<br />
location for two or three months until<br />
it becomes thoroughly established in<br />
the soil; then place in a partially<br />
shaded location.<br />
The most favorable time for potting<br />
rooted cuttings is October and November.<br />
Potting Mix for Rooted Cuttings<br />
and Seedlings<br />
The potting mix for young camellia<br />
plants should be loose but friable,<br />
of a texture that will stimulate root<br />
growth and allow easy penetration<br />
by the tender, young roots.<br />
The following soil mixture has<br />
given me satisfactory results for the<br />
potting of rooted cuttings and seedlings:<br />
25% or I part garden loam<br />
25 % or 1 part medium fine builder's<br />
sand<br />
50% or 2 parts humus, composed<br />
of equal parts of oak-leaf mold and<br />
Canadian peet.<br />
Add one gallon of well-rotted cow<br />
manure to a wheelbarrow load, or<br />
about 1 to 15. Mix the fertilizer thoroughly<br />
into the mix.<br />
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The manure, plus the organic plant<br />
foods liberated by the humus, will<br />
furnish sufficient nutrient for the first<br />
six months. The humus will also keep<br />
the growing medium sufficiently acid<br />
to stimulate healthy plant growth.<br />
The soil in the mix will furnish other<br />
minerals necessary until the spring<br />
months, at which time, mild feedings<br />
of liquid fertilizer may be applied as<br />
directed below under fertilizing.<br />
Watering Rooted Cuttings and<br />
Seedlings<br />
Water the young plants about once<br />
a week, depending upon weather<br />
conditions and the amount of shade<br />
provided. The plants should be kept<br />
moist but not soggy.<br />
Fertilizing Rooted Cutlings and<br />
Seedlings<br />
Assuming that the rooted cuttings<br />
were potted in October and November,<br />
a weak solution of liquid fertilizer'<br />
may be applied, beginning in<br />
March of the following spring. Apply<br />
the liquid fertilizer about March 1,<br />
May 1, and July 1. The solution for<br />
small plants should be not more than<br />
one-fourth the strength recommended<br />
by the manufacturer. Discontinue fertilizing<br />
after July I to allow new<br />
growth before winter.<br />
Repotting to Larger Containers<br />
Rooted cuttings originally placed<br />
in 4-inch pots or one-quart metal containers<br />
should be repotted into gallon<br />
containers or 6-inch pots at the end<br />
of the first year. They may remain in<br />
these larger containers for two years<br />
unless excessive growth indicates a<br />
larger container is necessary prior to<br />
that time.<br />
Those rooted cuttings initially<br />
placed in 6-inch pots or gallon containers<br />
may remain in the original<br />
containers for two years, when they<br />
should be removed to 2 to 3-gallon<br />
containers, using a soil mix such as<br />
presented below.
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Container Culture of Large<br />
Camellia Plants<br />
Camellia plants three years old and<br />
over and measuring 24 inches and<br />
over may be considered as large<br />
plants. The culture requirements for<br />
large plants is somewhat different<br />
than that for small plants.<br />
Potting Camellias to<br />
Large Containers<br />
Camellia culture in large containers<br />
includes 8-inch pots and 2-gallon<br />
wood or metal containers or larger.<br />
The soil mix and potting instructions<br />
to be followed are identical for all<br />
sizes of larger containers. Plants removed<br />
from 8-inch pots or gallon containers<br />
should be potted in 2 to 3gallon<br />
containers, preferably in 3gallon<br />
size.<br />
In preparing the large container,<br />
provide drainage holes, crushed rock,<br />
wood shavings and peet moss as outlined<br />
above under culture in small<br />
containers. Fill the container half-full<br />
of prepared soiL mix and firm with<br />
the hands, making a cone of soil in<br />
the center of the container.<br />
Remove the plant from 6-inch pot<br />
or gallon container and place into the<br />
prepared 3-gallon size container. Adjust<br />
the soil level so that the earth<br />
ball will be at least 2 inches from the<br />
top of container. Center the plant,<br />
spreading bottom roots over the soil<br />
cone and fill in with soil mix, firming<br />
with the fingers until soil is even with<br />
the top of the earth ball. Mulch with<br />
2 inches of pine needles and water<br />
thoroughly.<br />
The same procedure is applicable<br />
to balled and burlaped plants from<br />
the nursery.<br />
Potting Mix for Large Camellias<br />
(Sandy Loam Soil)<br />
The potting mix is somewhat different<br />
where sandy loam soil is available<br />
than where heavy clay or adobe<br />
soil is used.<br />
The following formula is applicable<br />
where the basic soil ingredient is<br />
sandy loam:<br />
40 % or 2 parts sandy garden loam<br />
20 % or 1 part fine sand<br />
40 % or two parts humus, composed<br />
of equal parts of oak leaf mold and<br />
Canadian peet. If oak leaf mold is not<br />
available, 40% peet may be used.<br />
To the above ingredients of one<br />
wheelbarrow load or 15 gallons, add<br />
1 gallon of cow or sheep manure, 2<br />
cups of acid fertilizer, such as RAC,<br />
1 cup of Agricultural Gypsum. Sprinkle<br />
the fertilizer over a layer of soil<br />
mix and repeat until all the fertilizer<br />
has been sprinkled over the mix. Mix<br />
all the ingredients thoroughly before<br />
using. The soil and sand should be<br />
slightly moist, not wet, before mixing.<br />
Do not apply water to the mix;<br />
merely use slightly-moist soil and<br />
sand in the mixture. This makes a<br />
loose, friable soil medium that will<br />
not be soggy.<br />
The Agricultural Gypsum is added<br />
to furnish calcium and to keep the<br />
soil loose and friable. Gypsum is<br />
slightly acid, having a pH of 6 to 6.5.<br />
Potting Mix for Large Camellias<br />
(Heavy Clay or Adobe Soil)<br />
20 % or 1 part adobe or clay soil<br />
20 % or 1 part sandy loam soil<br />
20 % or 1 part fine sand<br />
40 % or 2 parts humus, composed<br />
of equal parts of oak-leaf mold and<br />
Canadian peet.<br />
To the above ingredients of one<br />
wheelbarrow load of 15 gallons, add<br />
1 gallon of cow or sheep manure, 2<br />
cups of acid fertilizer such as R.A.C.<br />
and 2 cups of Gypsum.<br />
The additional cup of Gypsum in<br />
the clay or adobe mix is for the purpose<br />
of effecting a chemical reaction<br />
of calcium, potassium and sodium.<br />
The chemical reaction lightens the<br />
soil by freeing the soil particles in the<br />
clay or adobe soils. A concentration<br />
of magnesium and sodium salts in<br />
the heavy clay soils of California<br />
cause them to be sticky when wet<br />
and extremely hard when dry. As the<br />
Gypsum dissolves, it aids in forming
a balance of calcium, magnesium and<br />
sodium salts, which are beneficial to<br />
plant growth when in proper balance.<br />
This balance of salts makes it possible<br />
for the water to penetrate the<br />
soil mass more freely and assist in<br />
performing its function in plant<br />
growth, that is, carrying plant food in<br />
solution so that it is available for use<br />
by the plant.<br />
The process of keeping potassium,<br />
sodium and calcium salts in balance<br />
is even more essential in container<br />
culture than when camellias are<br />
planted in the ground. In California,<br />
most of our domestic water supplies<br />
come from melting snow and from<br />
rain water, stored in dams, which<br />
contain very few minerals. Usually<br />
these waters contain a high percentage<br />
of sodium salts, and may reach a<br />
concentration toxic to plants. Even at<br />
low concentrations they cause deterioration<br />
of the soil structure, and<br />
with constant use, the surface of all<br />
but extremely sandy soils will seal<br />
and prevent the wetting of deeper<br />
layers. (]) To counteract this condition,<br />
Gypsum is applied to effect a<br />
chemical reaction as described above.<br />
In using either of the above formulas<br />
for repotting, no further fertilizing<br />
need be done during the first year<br />
after repotting.<br />
The preferable time for repotting is .<br />
from November through April. The<br />
months of November through January<br />
are preferable as the plants are<br />
dormant and will develop new roots<br />
which will extend into the new soil<br />
mixture during the winter months.<br />
This will furnish plant food for the<br />
new spring growth and for bud development<br />
during the spring and<br />
summer months.<br />
Watering Large Camellia<br />
Plants in Containers<br />
Large camellia plants should be<br />
watered thoroughly after repotting<br />
and thereafter about once a week if<br />
the weather remains dry. During the<br />
winter months no watering is necessary<br />
unless prolonged dry and frosty<br />
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weather prevails. During such periods,<br />
water as required, based upon<br />
the moisture content of the soil in the<br />
containers.<br />
During normal spring and summer<br />
weather, water once a week. During<br />
dry, windy weather or exceedingly<br />
hot days, it may be necessary to<br />
water twice a week or oftener. Soil<br />
moisture content and the condition of<br />
each individual plant should be considered.<br />
Fertilizing<br />
Large camellia plants should be<br />
fertilized at the end of the first year<br />
following transplanting to a larger<br />
container. For bloom development,<br />
apply the first feeding of powderform<br />
acid-fertilizer during the month<br />
of December. This application also<br />
stimulates storage of energy in the<br />
stems to support new growth during<br />
the following spring. The same procedure<br />
applies to large plants that<br />
have been in the same size container<br />
for longer periods than one year.<br />
The amount of fertilizer applied for<br />
the winter feeding should be about<br />
one-half the amount prescribed below<br />
for the spring feeding.<br />
In the spring a second application<br />
of powder-form acid-fertilizer, such as<br />
R.A.C., should be applied about the<br />
first of March. I have found the following<br />
amounts of fertilizer sufficient<br />
for healthy plant growth and bud development:<br />
1. Two tablespoons for 30 to 36-inch<br />
bushy plants in 5-gallon containers.<br />
.<br />
2. One tablespoon for 18 to 24-inch<br />
bushy plants in 2 to 3-gallon containers.<br />
3. One teaspoonful for plants in gallon<br />
containers.<br />
The plants should be watered two<br />
days before applying fertilizer if not<br />
previously moistened by recent rainfall.<br />
Immediately following the application<br />
of dry fertilizer the plants should
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be watered to avoid burning the surface<br />
roots.<br />
Dry fertilizer must go through a<br />
molding process before it becomes<br />
available for plant food. For that reason,<br />
I apply a weak solution of liquid<br />
fertilizer, such as Likwid Gro, in the<br />
first watering following the application<br />
of dry fertilizer. The liquid fertilizer<br />
serves two purposes:<br />
(l) It moistens the dry fertilizer, and<br />
(2) it furnishes plant food readily<br />
available to the camellias while the<br />
decaying process is taking place in<br />
the dry fertilizer.<br />
The solution of liquid fertilizer,<br />
using Likwid Gro, should be 1 to<br />
1280. The following formula will give<br />
the above proportions when applying<br />
liquid fertilizer through the garden<br />
hose, the applicator or proportioner<br />
being in the ratio 1 to 16. One part<br />
dilute solution of fertilizer passes<br />
into the hose stream to 16 parts of<br />
water.<br />
Formula for Dilute Solution of<br />
Liquid Fertilizer<br />
1. Place 1 cup of Likwid Gro in a<br />
5-gallon jar or crock and fill with<br />
water. This is the dilute solution<br />
which is 1 part fertilizer to 80 parts<br />
water. Applying this solution through<br />
the proportioner into the hose stream<br />
at the rate of 1 part dilute solution<br />
to 16 parts water gives a solution of 1<br />
to 1280 at the hose nozzle. A stronger<br />
solution of Likwid Gro should not be<br />
applied as it may burn the roots and<br />
injure the plants. Likwid Gro has a<br />
high acid as well as nitrogen content.<br />
The above solution in water of pH 7<br />
at the tap will give pH of about 5 at<br />
the nozzle.<br />
2. For the small garden, or when<br />
it is desirous to fertilize only a few<br />
plants, use 1Y2 teaspoons of Likwid<br />
Gro to 1 gallon of water and apply<br />
directly to the plants.<br />
In my own garden I apply two<br />
additional feedings of liquid fertilizer<br />
of the above proportions: one application<br />
about April 15 and another<br />
about June 1.<br />
There should be no further fertilizing<br />
of plants of blooming size during<br />
the summer months, since an additional<br />
application will stimulate a second<br />
cycle of growth which will check<br />
bud development.<br />
Use of Phosphoric Acid<br />
Following the discontinuance of<br />
fertilizer, I start using phosphoric acid<br />
in the watering solution. Apply the<br />
first such watering about June 21, or<br />
three weeks after the last application<br />
of liquid fertilizer and follow through<br />
every three weeks during the summer.<br />
I water with phosphoric acid<br />
solution every third watering during<br />
the summer where the watering is on<br />
a weekly basis.<br />
Last year, the summer of 1947, I<br />
tried watering with phosphoric acid<br />
solution every week, but found that<br />
it stimulated too much growth, vigorous<br />
plants often putting out three<br />
cycles of growth in a year. At this<br />
rate one gets growth but sacrifices<br />
flower buds.<br />
The following formulas may be followed<br />
in applying phosphoric acid:<br />
1. For hand watering, put 10 C.c.<br />
of phosphoric acid in a gallon jUg,<br />
which makes a dilute solution to keep<br />
on hand for this purpose. Mix Y2 cup<br />
of dilute solution to a gallon of water<br />
and apply to the plants.<br />
2. For application through the garden<br />
hose, using a proportioner in the<br />
ratio 1 to 16: Put 10 c.c. of phosphoric<br />
acid, commercial grade 85 0 , in a 5gallon<br />
jar and fill the jar with water.<br />
This dilute solution taken through the<br />
proportioner, 1 to 16, will give a pH<br />
of about 5 at the hose nozzle when<br />
the water at the tap has a pH of 7.5.<br />
The amount of phosphoric acid in the<br />
dilute solution may be varied according<br />
to the pH of the tap water. The<br />
ideal pH at the hose nozzle is about 5<br />
to 5.5.<br />
Phosphoric acid applied in hard<br />
water with a high pH or alkaline content,<br />
neutralizes the alkali and lowers<br />
the pH, making the water acid.
Where camellias are grown in containers,<br />
it is advisable to correct for<br />
the alkalinity of the water. Constant<br />
application of water, bearing sodium<br />
in the absence of other salts, causes<br />
the soil to become alkaline. Water,<br />
bearing sodium, also seals the top<br />
soil so that water cannot permeate<br />
the root balL and it becomes dry and<br />
contracted, allowing the water to run<br />
down between the earth ball and the<br />
sides of the container. The plant is<br />
slowly poisoned and may die for lack<br />
of sufficient moisture.<br />
Phosphoric acid is also a good fertilizer,<br />
providing mild feedings of<br />
phosphorous, one of the essential<br />
elements in stimulating healthy root<br />
growth and general plant health;<br />
(l) California Agriculture, Vol. 3, January<br />
1949, p. 3. W. D. Doneen, Associate Irrigaticn<br />
Agronomist, University of California Experiment<br />
Station at Davis.<br />
The above talk was given at the January 3,<br />
1949 meeting of the N.C.C.S.<br />
Berkeley Show<br />
(continued from page 9)<br />
used papier mache to form a setting<br />
of gently sloping hills, planted to camellia<br />
trees, bearing red, pink, white,<br />
and variegated blooms. At the foot of<br />
the hills, a mirror was used to represent<br />
a lake. A gardener figurine with<br />
wheelbarrow was hauling a tubbed<br />
plant to its new location. The composition<br />
showed a marked degree of<br />
creative ability and artistic talent, as<br />
well as an understanding of the environment<br />
preferred by camellias.<br />
CLASSES AND AWARDS<br />
1. SINGLE. One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Shin Akebcno)<br />
2-A. R. Carstensen (Shin Akebono)<br />
3-George Celeste (Pink Amabilis)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (John Illges)<br />
2-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Kreena)<br />
3-Dr. R. M. Cutter (Unnamed Seedling)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Amabils Vgt)<br />
2-B. W. Hollingshead (Amabilis Vgt)<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen (Amabilis Vgt)<br />
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WHITE<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen (Amabilis)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Amabilis)<br />
2. SEMI-DOUBLE. One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Mrs. Howard Asper)<br />
2-H. L. Paige (Queen Bessie)<br />
3-H. D. Brown (Della Robbia)<br />
LADY CLARE<br />
I-J. G. Parmelee<br />
2-B. W. S. Hollingshead<br />
3-Helen D. Brown<br />
RED<br />
I-H. D. Brown (Flame)<br />
2-C. Breschini (H. A. Downing)<br />
3-A. E. Morrison (Flame)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-C. Breschini (King Lear)<br />
2-Dr. G. W. Richmond<br />
(A. Audusson Vgt)<br />
3-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson (Ville de Nantes)<br />
NAGASAKI<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen<br />
2-D. L. Feathers<br />
3-B. W. S. Hollingshead<br />
DONCKELARI<br />
I-Robert M. Hoffman (Middletoni)<br />
3-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Tea Garden)<br />
3-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson (English)<br />
WHITE<br />
l-e. Breschini (White Giant)<br />
2-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson (Haku Tsuru)<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen (Finlandia)<br />
LOTUS<br />
I-John D. Vasquez<br />
2-The Misses Daniel<br />
3-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson<br />
3. INCOMPLETE DOUBLE, LARGE<br />
PETALS. One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Otto M. Butzke (Gov. Earl Warren)<br />
2-H. D. Brown (Herme Pink)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (Kumasaka)<br />
RED<br />
I-H. L. Paige (Margaret Higden)<br />
2-B. W. Hollingshead (Rose Glory)<br />
3-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Mathotiana)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-H. A. Wescott (Cap!. Martin's Fav,)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Colonial Lady)<br />
3-H. L. Paige (A. Audusson Vgt)<br />
HERME<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen<br />
2-Helen D. Brown<br />
3-Kenneth J. While<br />
WHITE<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen (Otome While)<br />
2-Rcbert Moore (White Crane)<br />
3-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Haku Tsuru)<br />
4. INCOMPLETE DOUBLE, SMALL<br />
INNER PETALS. One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Mrs. Paul L. May (Kumasaka)<br />
2-H. V. Mitchell (Lady Mary Cromartie)<br />
3-H. D. Erown (Pink Countess of Orkney)
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RED<br />
I-Kenneth J. White (Jarvis Red)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Gaiety)<br />
3-0tto M. Butzke (jackson;;)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Mikeniaku)<br />
2. 3-None<br />
WHITE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Frizzle White)<br />
2-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Caprice)<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells (Haku Rakuten)<br />
5. INCOMPLETE DOUBLE, LARGE<br />
AND SMALL INNER PETALS.<br />
One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-A. E. Morrison (Pink Star)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
(Mrs. Freeman Weiss)<br />
3-Mrs. Paul L. May (Pink Star)<br />
RED<br />
I-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson<br />
(Bessie McArthur)<br />
2-A. R. Carstensen (Victory)<br />
3-H. D. Brown (Emperor of Russia)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen (Argentinita)<br />
2-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Eugene Lize)<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells (Lady Jane Grey)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Robert M. Hoffman (Nobilissima)<br />
2-D. L. Feathers (Haku Rakuten)<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen (Nobilissima)<br />
6. DOUBLE, IRREGULAR.<br />
One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-C. Breschini (Mrs. Grace Burkhart)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
(D.&D. Double Pink)<br />
3-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Pink Lady)<br />
PINK BALL<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen<br />
2-A. E. Morrison<br />
3-B. W. S. Hollingshead<br />
DEBUTANTE<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen<br />
2-B. W. S. Hollingshead<br />
3-Helen M. Wright<br />
MARCHIONESS OF EXETER<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen<br />
2-Robert M. Hoffman<br />
3-Beniamin Enos<br />
CHANDLERI ELEGANS PINK<br />
I-Ralph S. Roy<br />
2-Helen D. Brown<br />
3-Kenneth J. White<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson<br />
(Mrs. Charles Cobb)<br />
2-Mrs. C. G. Peterson (Daikagura Red)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (Pride of Greenville)<br />
VEDRINE<br />
I-Mrs. C. Breschini<br />
2--Helen D. Brown<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
1-0. E. Hopfer (Gigantea)<br />
2-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson (Colletti)<br />
3-B. W. S. Holingshead (Peoniflora)<br />
CHANDLERI ELEGANS<br />
I-Kenneth J. White<br />
2-Mrs. W. S. Snook<br />
3-Mrs. Herbert Teachout<br />
WHITE<br />
I-None<br />
2-Sydney Munro (Edith Churchwell)<br />
3-None<br />
7. DOUBLE, INCOMPLETE<br />
IMBRICATED. One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson<br />
(Gen. George Patton)<br />
2-Dr. G. M. Grismore<br />
(Pink Marquis d'Exeter)<br />
3-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Pink Shell)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Matholiana)<br />
2-Robert M. Hoffman (Otome Red)<br />
3-Dr. G. Myron Grismore<br />
(Rosea Superba)<br />
DR. SHEPHERD<br />
I-Dr. J. H. Willmore<br />
2-0. E. Hopfer<br />
3-Dr. G. M. Grismore<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Dr. G. M. Grismcre (b Pepperrr.int)<br />
2-H. . Mitchell (Olome Spert)<br />
3-None<br />
WHITE<br />
I-B. W. S. Hollingshead (K. Sawada)<br />
2-Robert M. Hoffman (Dante)<br />
3-None<br />
8. DOUBLE, REGULAR IMBRI<br />
CATED, OR TIERED. One Bloom.<br />
I-C. Breschini (Eleanor Hagood)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Ecstasy)<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen (Otome Pink)<br />
LALLAROOK<br />
I-Richard Charles Brown<br />
2-0tto M. Butzke<br />
3-Kenneth J. White<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
l-C. Breschini (Margaret Higdon)<br />
2-Mrs. C. G. Peterson (Pope Pius IX)<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen (Margaret Higdon)<br />
C. M. HOVEY<br />
I-Ralph S. Roy, Jr.<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
3-0tto M. Butzke<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-H. G. Sanders (Elizabeth Pink)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Brassenie)<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen (Lallarook)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-D. L. Feathers (Alba Plena)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Snow Queen)<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen (Otome White)
FIMBRIATA<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen<br />
2-D. 1. Feathers<br />
3-Benjamin Enos<br />
PAX<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen<br />
2, 3-None<br />
9. SINGLE; Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Oaiterin)<br />
2-Mrs. J. H. Biddle (Shin Akebono)<br />
3-None<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (John Illges)<br />
2-0r. Robert M. Cutter<br />
(Unnamed Seedling)<br />
2-0r. G. M. Grismore (Kreena)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Sarasa)<br />
2, 3-None<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Amabilis)<br />
2-A. R. Carstensen (Amabilis)<br />
3-J. E. Bachman (Sierra Belle)<br />
10. SEMI-DOUBLE. Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-H. 1. Paige (Queen Bessie)<br />
2-0r. Walker Wells (Magnoliaflora)<br />
3-C. Breschini (Louise McClay)<br />
LADY CLARE<br />
I-Mrs. Charles W. Johnston<br />
2-A. E. Morrison<br />
3-None<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-A. E. Morrison (Flame)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Firebrand)<br />
3-0r. G. M. Grismore (Flame)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-H. V. Mitchell (DonckelariJ<br />
2-C. Breschini (Donckelari)<br />
3-0r. G. M. Grismore (Donckelari)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Triphosa)<br />
2-A. E. Morrison (Lotus)<br />
3-Floyd R. Bourlier (Lotus)<br />
11. INCOMPLETE DOUBLE WITH<br />
LARGE PETALS. Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-C. Breschini (Gov. Earl Warren)<br />
2-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson (Pink Herma)<br />
3-H. G. Sanders (Elizabeth Pink)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Mrs. Roe's Favorite)<br />
2-H. A. Bogh (Yosemite)<br />
3-0r. G. M. Grismore (Mathotiana)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-H. D. Brown (Herma)<br />
2-0r. Walker Wells (Sea Shell)<br />
3-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Herme)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Edith Churchwell)<br />
2-0r. G. M. Grismore (Haku Tsuru)<br />
3-H. 1. Paige (Lotus)<br />
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12. INCOMPLETE DOUBLE. SMALL<br />
PETALS. Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Kumasaka)<br />
2-H. V. Mitchell (Lady Mary Cromartie)<br />
3-H. A. Wescott (Davis' Rose Dawn)<br />
13. INCOMPLETE DOUBLE, LARGE<br />
AND SMALL INNER PETALS.<br />
Three Blooms.<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-J. F. Bachman (Emperor of Russia)<br />
2-Mrs. PaulL. May (Emperor of Russia)<br />
3-Benjamin Enos (Vedrine)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-C. Breschini (Mrs. Freeman Weiss Vgt)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Eugene Lize)<br />
3-). E. Bachman (Matsukasa)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Nobilissima)<br />
2-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Caprice)<br />
3-Mrs. Anna Buzzine (Warratah White)<br />
14. DOUBLE IRREGULAR.<br />
Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Ralph S. Roy, Jr. (Francine)<br />
2-A.. E. Morrison (Pink Star)<br />
3-B. W. S. Hollingshead<br />
(Blush Pink Sport of High Hat)<br />
DEBUTANTE<br />
I-D. 1. Feathers<br />
2-B. W. S. Hollingshead<br />
3-C. Breschini<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Duncan Bell)<br />
2-Louis P. Glaudon (Princess BacciochiJ<br />
3-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Oaikagura Red)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-C. Breschini (Chandleri Elegans)<br />
2-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson (Colletti)<br />
3-Mrs. J. W. Rhoades (Chandleri Elegans)<br />
15. DOUBLE, INCOMPLETE<br />
IMBRICATED.<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Harry Mohr (Dr. Shepherd)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Mathotiana)<br />
3-C. Breschini (Dr. Shepherd)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Pink Lady)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Guilfolius Halleana)<br />
3-None<br />
16. DOUBLE, REGULAR IMBRI<br />
CATED, OR TIERED.<br />
Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
1-). E. Bachman (Lallarook Clear)<br />
2-Harry Mohr (Caleb Cope)<br />
3-8. W. S. Holilngshead (Biho Pink)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Dr. G. M. Grismore (c. M. Hovey)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Pope Pius IX)<br />
3-Mrs. C. G. Peterson (Pope Pius IX)
26 Northern California Camellia Society<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-C. Breschini (Lallarook)<br />
2-D. L. Feathers (Elizabeth)<br />
3-Dr. G. Myron Grismore (Elizabeth)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Benjamin Enos (Pax)<br />
2-A. R. Carstensen (Alba Fimbriata)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (Alba Plena)<br />
17. DISPLAY OF SIX BLOOMS OF<br />
DIFFERENT NAMED VARIETIES.<br />
I-Dr. W. Scott Holland. M.D.<br />
2-Herbert V. Mitchell<br />
3-Mrs. J. H. Biddle<br />
18. SIX BLOOMS OF ONE VARIETY.<br />
I-H. V. Micthell (Donckelari)<br />
2-D. L. Feathers (Pope Pius IX)<br />
3-Dr. G. M. Grismore<br />
(Ville de Nantes Vgt)<br />
19. 12 BLOOMS OF DIFFERENT<br />
VARIETIES.<br />
I-Mrs. Sara S. Tuckey<br />
2-Mrs. Charles W. J:;hnson<br />
3-Dr. G. M. Grismore<br />
20. 12 BLOOMS OF ONE VARIETY.<br />
I-H. V. Mitchell (Donckelari)<br />
2-D. L. Feathers (Shiro Tama)<br />
3-B. W. S. Hollingshead (Debutante)<br />
21. <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> PLANT IN<br />
CONTAINER.<br />
I-Benjamin Enos (Bella Romana)<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
(Mrs. Freeman Weiss)<br />
3-Harold L. Paige (C. M. Hovey)<br />
22. THREE POTTED <strong>CAMELLIA</strong>S.<br />
I-H. L. Paige<br />
(Pink Ball, Kumasaka, C. M. Hovey)<br />
2-George Ura<br />
(Waterloo, Kumasaka, Lady Van Sittart)<br />
3-Dr. Robert K. Cutter (Mrs. William<br />
Thompson, Lady VanSittart, Tricolor<br />
Sieboldi)<br />
23. <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> RETICULATA.<br />
I-Dr. Walker M. Wells<br />
2-Harold A. Wescott<br />
3-None<br />
D. L. Feathers was Show Chairman,<br />
assisted by Dr. Walker M.<br />
Wells. Dr. G. Myron Grismore was<br />
Chairman of Show Staging. A complete<br />
show report giving recognition<br />
to the workers who made the show<br />
possible is in preparation.<br />
Camellias to California<br />
(ccntinued frem page 13)<br />
confess we were astonished and delighted.<br />
These had been grown, quite<br />
exposed in a southwestern view, and<br />
for clean foliage, well-formed buds,<br />
and perfect blossoms, we never saw<br />
them excelled, although we have had<br />
a thousand blossoms open, in our<br />
own collection, within two weeks at<br />
a time, in former years, and have observed<br />
them closely. These facts, this<br />
blossoming of the Camellias at<br />
Smith's is a guarantee that the Camellia<br />
will flourish perfectly with us,<br />
as an ornamental tree, and we hope,<br />
in years to come, we shall have the<br />
pleasure to sit under the shade of<br />
this magnificent tree and gaze upon<br />
its beauties."<br />
Smith's Pomological Garden and<br />
Nursery, containing a collection of<br />
over forty varieties of camellias, was<br />
completely destroyed by floods in<br />
1861-62, never to be re-established.<br />
Camellias were now a part of Sacramento<br />
floriculture, and it is possible<br />
that specimen plants from these<br />
original collections may still be found<br />
in our gardens. Unfortunately, the<br />
origin of our old plants has been lost<br />
and their exact age is merely a guess.<br />
There is one specimen near Courtland,<br />
approximately twenty miles below<br />
Sacramento, that is known to<br />
have been planted in 1860. It is a<br />
form of Warratah. The tree is healthy<br />
and produces an annual crop of several<br />
thousand blossoms. This tree is<br />
considered the oldest camellia of record<br />
in California.<br />
Three excellent specimens of camellias<br />
are to found at Hood, fifteen<br />
miles below Sacramento. The oldest<br />
of thees, planted about 1874, is a Tricolor<br />
(Wakanoura). It is 22 feet in<br />
height, has a trunk circumference of<br />
40 Yz inches and a branch spread of<br />
29 feet. A Purity (l) close by was<br />
planted a few years later. It is crowded<br />
and has made a tall slender growth<br />
reaching a height of 28 feet 8 inches.<br />
A Frau Minna Seidel (Pink Perfection)<br />
(1), in the same group, and planted
about the same time as the Purity,<br />
is 26 feet talL has a trunk circumference<br />
of 38 inches and a branch<br />
spread of 26 feet. The measurements<br />
were made in December, 1946.<br />
The planting of camellias during<br />
the nineteenth century was limited to<br />
specimen trees, with little thought<br />
being given to collections. In the<br />
1880's, many homes sported camellias<br />
and it became a custom, according<br />
to Judge Peter J. Shields of Sacramento,<br />
for the "gentry to drive their<br />
buggies and phaetons on Sundays<br />
and on afternoons and early evenings<br />
just to see the beautiful blooms. A<br />
fashionable dancing club gave an<br />
annual camellia dance and the blooms<br />
were much in demand."<br />
Interest in camellias diminished toward<br />
the turn of the century but a<br />
small group of men, alert to the value<br />
of the plant, brought about a renewed<br />
interest in it, and they were able to<br />
establish the use of the name Camellia<br />
City for Sacramento early in the<br />
1900's. This slogan was quickly made<br />
use of by many business firms, and<br />
Camellia City markets, stores, establishments,<br />
apartment houses, etc.,<br />
came into being. The term Camellia<br />
City was never made official because<br />
of legal complications; however, the<br />
camellia was made the official flower<br />
of Sacramento through resolution of<br />
the city council on February 7, 1941.<br />
The holding of an annual Camellia<br />
Show was originated in 1925 at a dinner<br />
given by the Sacramento Chamber<br />
of Commerce, where a number<br />
of baskets of camellias were exhibited<br />
and prizes awarded for the best<br />
display. The following year, 1926, the<br />
show took definite form and has been<br />
an annual event ever since. The show<br />
was greatly expanded in 1948, with<br />
facilities being- made available at the<br />
Sacramento Municipal Auditorium by<br />
the City Government.<br />
The exact number of camellias in<br />
Sacramento is a matter of guess; however,<br />
an estimate of 35,000 trees does<br />
not seem too far out of line, considering<br />
the fact that annual plantings of<br />
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camellias in Sacramento during the<br />
past seven years have averaged close<br />
to 4000 plants. The largest single<br />
planting is in Capitol Park, where 900<br />
camellias are to be found representing<br />
450 varieties. One feature in the<br />
park is a grove of camellias dedicated<br />
to early Sacramento pioneers. This<br />
grove at present contains 153 plants.<br />
Present-day plantings and the wide<br />
use of camellias in California are truly<br />
a complete fulfillment of the early<br />
predictions of a man with vision, Col.<br />
James L. L. F. Warren (the title of<br />
Colonel was conferred upon him by<br />
General Sutter).<br />
(1) These were evidently direct impcrts from<br />
Japan because Frau Minna Seidel (Pbk Perfection)<br />
was not named in Eurcpe until 1890 and<br />
it is established that Furity is a renamed<br />
Shira-giju.<br />
Courtesy American Camellia Scciety, American<br />
Camellia Yearbook 1947, pp. 1-5.<br />
ACS Convention<br />
(continued from page 6)<br />
variety of C. Japonica known and desirable<br />
to any hybridizer. If a seedling<br />
receives an award of merit this<br />
year but does not receive the Illges<br />
MedaL it is still eligible for the medal<br />
during the following two years.<br />
Next on the program was an illustrated<br />
talk on "The Verschaffelt Camellias"<br />
by Dr. David W. McLean of<br />
Arcadia, A.C.S., Director of California<br />
and a prominent member of the<br />
Southern California Camellia Society,<br />
in which he presented a series of<br />
kodachrome slides of the plates of the<br />
Verschaffelt books, published from<br />
1848-60. Dr. McLean was anxious that<br />
his audience catch the full significance<br />
of these plates in our present<br />
nomenclature problems. As he read<br />
a copy of Hume & McIlhenny's translation<br />
of the text of the Verschaffelt<br />
books, he began to see unfolding before<br />
his eyes the beginning of the<br />
nomenclature problem. Already they<br />
were developing synonyms and errors<br />
and points of confusion.
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Through the library at the University<br />
of California, he said, it had been<br />
arranged with the library at Harvard<br />
to have the Verschaffelt books, as<br />
well as the earliest book we have on<br />
camellias, that of Samuel Curtis, sent<br />
out to California. "I was invited to<br />
Manchester Boddy's home to see<br />
these plates," he continued. "There<br />
were 623 of them. We sat around a<br />
large drawing room in groups of twos<br />
and threes admiring those plates. I<br />
suggested that we have kodachrome<br />
slides made. The following Sunday<br />
we met at the home of McCaskill.<br />
Anne Galli and Robert Casamaior<br />
were there, too. We went over the<br />
plates and put markers in the books.<br />
Some selections were of camellias<br />
not now in existence; others were of<br />
varieties known today under a different<br />
name. Verschaffelt showed no<br />
singles and no semi-doubles." Apparently<br />
formal doubles were preferred.<br />
Dr. McLean then showed some<br />
slides of the Camellia Test Garden in<br />
Huntington Botanical Gardens at San<br />
Marino, one of the gardens accredited<br />
by the American Camellia Society.<br />
He went on to explain that one day<br />
in 1944, Anne Galli, one of the backbone<br />
members of the Southern California<br />
Camellia Society was walking<br />
with a group of camellia enthusiasts<br />
through what Mr. Huntington used to<br />
call the Japanese Camellia Canyon.<br />
Thousands of seedlings had sprung<br />
up under the trees whose seeds had<br />
been dropped. As she went along<br />
she suggested a test garden be set<br />
up there by grafting onto these large<br />
understock. Dr. Hertrich was delighted.<br />
A test garden was set up. In<br />
this garden there are over 600 varieties.<br />
The most recent acquisition is<br />
No. 1402 from Australia and some<br />
seed from China. All blossoms are<br />
checked as they bloom. No lists are<br />
published until they have been<br />
checked."<br />
Referring to the lack of interest in<br />
camellias the early part of this century,<br />
Dr. McLean concluded, "The<br />
saving situation today is the great<br />
diversity of camellias."<br />
President-elect Arthur W. Solomon<br />
then proposed a resolution to give Dr.<br />
H. Harold Hume, the outgoing President,<br />
the title of President Emeritus.<br />
The members were in unanimous<br />
accord and it was so ordered by President<br />
Solomon.<br />
The remainder of the evening was<br />
spent in friendly conversation.<br />
Cunninghame's Camellias<br />
(continued from page 17)<br />
before the letter but he did not complete<br />
the voyage and was never<br />
heard of again.<br />
To James Cunninghame goes credit<br />
for the first specimens of Chinese<br />
plants that enriched the herbaria of<br />
Ray, Petiver, Plukenet and Sloane<br />
who repeatedly thanked him for his<br />
contributions. Plants have their histories<br />
and so have men who worked<br />
with them.<br />
My thanks are due Dr. J. Ramsbottom,<br />
Director and Dr. W. M. Philipson<br />
and Mr. A. J. Wilmot of the staff<br />
of the British Museum (Natural History),<br />
for their assistance in unravelling<br />
the story of the Cunninghame<br />
specimens.<br />
ACS Program<br />
(continued from page 15)<br />
at the Dempsey Hotel in Macon Georgia,<br />
on September 29, 1945 and who<br />
pledged the $2000.00 necessary to<br />
start this society on its way, we offer<br />
our sincere thanks for a job well<br />
begun. I feel that I know our Pacific<br />
Coast Societies well enough to say<br />
that with proper revision of the By<br />
Laws, we stand ready to give the<br />
American Society our fullest cooperation,<br />
in order that it· may become<br />
truly national in scope.<br />
For a society which is little more<br />
than three years old, it has already<br />
accomplished great things in a very<br />
short space of time. The years ahead<br />
offer still greater opportunities for<br />
growth and accomplishment.
Sacramento Show<br />
(continued from page II)<br />
10. ANEMONEFORM. Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-D. 1. Feathers (Francine)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Rose Linda)<br />
3-D. 1. Feathers (Stile Pink Perfection)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Duncan Bell)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Duncan Bell)<br />
3-Gerry Da Prato (Warratah)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-C. Breschini (Marchioness of Salisbury)<br />
2-Mrs. J. M. Daigle (Vedrine Vgt)<br />
3-D. 1. Feathers (Vedrine Vgt)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Chandleri Alba)<br />
2-C. K. McClatchy (Mrs. Abby Wilder)<br />
3-None<br />
11. PEONIFORM. One Bloom.<br />
PINK - Judged separately<br />
HM-Frank Williams (Miss Pasadena)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Mrs. Irene Fisher<br />
(Marchioness of Salisbury)<br />
2-C. Breschini (Strawberry Blonde)<br />
3-Frank Williams (Marchioness of Exeter)<br />
HM-Mrs. Selma Schwartz (Peoniflora)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Dr. G. M. Grismore (Haku Tsuru)<br />
2-Mrs. 1. I. Snyder (Nobilissima)<br />
3-Mrs. Pickett (Caprice)<br />
HM-Frank Williams (Victory White)<br />
COLETTI MACULATA<br />
I-Albert Anderson<br />
2-Mrs. Irene Fisher<br />
3-C. Breschini<br />
HM-A. B. S. Foale<br />
12. PEONIFORM. Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Mrs. Fred Moore<br />
(Marchioness of Exeter)<br />
2-K. Malcolm (Pank Ball)<br />
3-Mrs. J. E. Morgan<br />
(Marchioness of Exeter)<br />
ARAJISHI<br />
I-Beth Kimball<br />
2-Mrs. J. M. 1. Eva<br />
3-Mr. R. W. Pierson<br />
HM-A. R. Carstensen<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
1-0. 1. Feathers (Pink Lady)<br />
2-Irene Fisher (Marchioness of Salisbury)<br />
3-A. B. S. Foale (Colletti)<br />
WHITE<br />
1-1. I. Snyder (Nobilissima)<br />
2-Mrs. Laura Seagstack (Caprice)<br />
3-None<br />
HM-H. C. Wortley<br />
(Marchioness of Exeter)<br />
13. COMPLETE DOUBLE.<br />
One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-D. 1. Feathers (Mrs. K. Sawada)<br />
2-Herman Mueller (Lot 7)<br />
3-Frank Williams (Mrs. K. Sawada)<br />
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RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Mrs. 1. I. Snyder (C. M. Hovey)<br />
2-Arthur Mohr (C. M. Hovey)<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells (Pope Pius IX)<br />
HM-Minnie Straubel (Col. Firey)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-H. A. Wescott (Capt. Martin's Fav.)<br />
2-Pearl Blauth (Lallarook)<br />
3-Mrs. B. C. Erwin<br />
(Marchioness of Exeter)<br />
HM-Herman Mueller (Laurel Leaf)<br />
HM-Mrs. Wayne Swart (Eureka Vgt.)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-S. C. Wortley (Fimbriata)<br />
2-Frank Williams (Mrs. K. Sawada)<br />
3-Mrs. Harold Bradley (Fimbriata)<br />
14. COMPLETE DOUBLE.<br />
Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-Mrs. Helen Bachman (Laurel Leaf)<br />
2-Herman Mueller (Lot 7)<br />
3-C. Breschini (Lady Hume's Blush)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-S. C. Wortley (Belgian Red)<br />
2-1. J. Snyder (Mathotiana)<br />
3-H. 1. Paige (C. M. Hovey)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Mrs. Helen Bachman (Kitutogi)<br />
2-A. R. Carstensen (Laurel Leaf)<br />
3-Mrs. Ed Dettling (Mme. Le Bois)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-S. C. Wortley (Fimbriata)<br />
2-Marie Van Antwerp (Mrs. K. Sawada)<br />
3-Pearl Blauth (Elizabeth)<br />
HM-Mrs. J. 1. Ryan (Ecstasy)<br />
15. ROSEFORM, REGULAR.<br />
One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-P. P: Moeszinger (John Laing)<br />
2-Frank Williams (Roseform Seedling)<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen (Pink Bleichroeder)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Frank Williams (Mathotiana)<br />
2-M. J. Bettencourt (Julia Drayton)<br />
3-John C. Gist. Jr. (Julia Drayton)<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-A. R. Carstensen (Madge Higdon)<br />
2-Arthur Mohr (Bleichroeder)<br />
3-Mary Gregson (Comte de Gomer)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-Mary Gregson (Otome)<br />
2-Mrs. Byron Davis (Otome)<br />
3-Mrs. George Kaminsky (Teutonia)<br />
16. ROSEFORM, REGULAR.<br />
Three Blooms.<br />
PINK<br />
I-C. Breschini (Sacco Rose)<br />
2-H. 1. Paige (Mrs. Josephine Hearn)<br />
3-None<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-J. B. Rasmussen (Black Prince)<br />
2-Mrs. George Davis (Cheerful)<br />
3-Marie Van Antwerp (Otome Pink)
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VARIEGATED<br />
I-Mrs. J. E. Morgan (Comte de Gomer)<br />
2-Mrs. Mary Harris (Eureka Vgt)<br />
3-Mrs. J. M. Daigle (Capt. Martin's Fav.)<br />
WHITE<br />
I-C. Breschini (Shiro Tama)<br />
2-Mrs. J. Blackford (Otome White)<br />
3-Arthur Mohr (Purity)<br />
17. <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SASANQUA<br />
OR SALUENENSIS.<br />
Single. One Bloom.<br />
APPLE BLOSSOM<br />
I-Mrs. Byron Davis<br />
2-Mrs. J. E. Morgan<br />
3-Mrs. R. W. Pierson<br />
18. <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> SASANQUA<br />
OR MALIFLORA.<br />
Double. One Bloom.<br />
I-D. L. Feathers (Showa No Sakae)<br />
3-D. L. Feathers (Hiryo)<br />
3-None<br />
19. <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> RETICULATA.<br />
One Bloom.<br />
I-Harold A. Wescott<br />
2, 3-None<br />
20. <strong>CAMELLIA</strong> RETICULATA.<br />
Three Blooms.<br />
I-Harold A. Wescott<br />
2, 3-None<br />
21. BOUTONNIERE CLASS.<br />
One Bloom.<br />
PINK<br />
I-H. V. Mitchell (Lady Hume's Blush)<br />
2-Dr. Waiker Wells (Claudia Lea)<br />
3-Mrs. R. E. Hawtrey (Pink Perfection)<br />
PROF. SARGENT<br />
I-Kenneth L. Byers<br />
2-H. A. Wescott<br />
3-Arthur Mohr<br />
VARIEGATED<br />
I-Dr. Walker Wells (Collettil<br />
2-Dr. Walker Wells (Ville de Nantes)<br />
3-Mrs. George Davis (Hopkins Vgt)<br />
22. No Awards.<br />
23. SEVEN OR MORE BLOOMS,<br />
DIFFERENT VARIETIES.<br />
I-Edwin Bedell<br />
2-D. L. Feathers<br />
3-None<br />
HM-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
HM-Herman Mueller<br />
24. ELEVEN OR MORE BLOOMS,<br />
ONE VARIETY.<br />
PINK<br />
I-George Rothney<br />
(Marchioness of Exeter)<br />
2-Roy Wiegand (Pink Perfection)<br />
3-H. V. Mueller (Lot 7)<br />
RED OR ROSE<br />
I-Mrs. J. E. Miller (Mme. Jannoch)<br />
2-Mrs. David (Mme. Jannoch)<br />
3-Mrs. N. C. Nostler (Mme. Jannoch)<br />
HM-Calvin Polmer (Ruby Glory)<br />
DAIKAGURA<br />
I-J. E. Moore<br />
2-Mrs. William Bock<br />
3-David Roberts<br />
HM-Mrs. R. A. Gunth<br />
WHITE<br />
I-D. L. Feathers (Finlandia)<br />
2-Helen Kimball (Fimbriata)<br />
3-Mrs. Fred Nold (Alba Plena)<br />
HM-Richard Muljab (Alba Plena)<br />
25. ONE POTTED <strong>CAMELLIA</strong>.<br />
I-Betty Smith (Belgian Red)<br />
2-John E. Gist (Laurel Leaf)<br />
3-J. C. Bettencourt (Laurel Leaf)<br />
26. THREE POTTED <strong>CAMELLIA</strong>S.<br />
I-Arthur Mohr<br />
2-Albert Anderson<br />
3-Albert Anderson<br />
SPECIAL CLASS 4. Trays of 3 singles.<br />
GRANDIFLORA ROSEA.<br />
I-J. D. Faustman<br />
2-Arthur Mohr<br />
3-Harold L. Paige<br />
HM-Mrs. Sam H. Cohn<br />
FLAME<br />
I-Walter Christopher<br />
2-Dr. G. M. Grismore<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
H. A. DOWNING<br />
I-Harold L. Paige<br />
2-Frank Williams<br />
3-Edwin Bedell<br />
ALBA PLENA<br />
I-Mrs. Byron Davis<br />
2-S. C. Wortley<br />
3-D. L. Feathers<br />
HM-Herman Mueller<br />
SPECIAL CLASS - 7 or more entries<br />
of one variety.<br />
DAIKAGURA<br />
I-Elsie Janssen<br />
2-C. Breschini<br />
3-S. C. Wortley<br />
HM-Herman Mueller<br />
DAIKAGURA RED<br />
I-B. W. S. Hollingshead<br />
2-S. C. Wortley<br />
3-Mrs. L. I. Snyder<br />
HM-Byron Davis<br />
VEDRINE<br />
I-S. C. Wortley<br />
2-A. R. Carstensen<br />
3-A. R. Carstensen<br />
HM-J. H. McMahon
PROF. SARGENT<br />
I-Mrs. C. M. Hoskinson<br />
2-Harold A. Wescott<br />
3-Dr. Walker Wells<br />
HM-S. C. Wortley<br />
CHANDLERI ELEGANS<br />
I-Mrs. Henry Brown<br />
2-Mrs. Byron Davis<br />
3-Dr. G. M. Grismore<br />
GRANDIFLORA ROSEA<br />
l-K. Malcolm<br />
2-A. E. Leffla<br />
3-Selma Schwartz<br />
HM-Mrs. George M. Davis<br />
ALBA PLENA<br />
I-Walter Christopher<br />
2-Mrs. J. Blackford<br />
3-Edwin Bedell<br />
ALBA PLENA<br />
I-D. L. Feathers<br />
2-Mrs. Harold Protzman<br />
3-None<br />
A Camellia Tour was arranged on<br />
March 7, 1949 for the entertainment<br />
of visitors from the Deep South and<br />
the Pacific Northwest who had come<br />
to California to attend the annual convention<br />
of the American Camellia Society.<br />
At nine o'clock in the morning,<br />
members of the Northern California<br />
Camellia Society called for their<br />
guests at Hotel Claremont in Berkeley.<br />
The caravan of cars proceeded<br />
across the San Francisco Bay Bridge,<br />
along the Embarcadero, Fisherman's<br />
Wharf, Marina and Yacht Harbor,<br />
through Golden Gate Park, and down<br />
the Peninsula. In Golden Gate Park,<br />
the nationally celebrated Magnolia<br />
Campbelli tree was seen in full<br />
bloom. Some of the cars also went<br />
across the Golden Gate Bridge to<br />
give the visitors a glimpse or Marin<br />
County.<br />
The party then proceeded to Lou's<br />
Village on Highway 17 where the Camellia<br />
Society of Santa Clara County<br />
were hosts at luncheon. Each lady<br />
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<strong>CAMELLIA</strong> TOUR<br />
ARAJISHI<br />
I-William E. Thomas<br />
2-William Bryant<br />
3-Mrs. William R. W. Newman<br />
MARCHIONESS OF EXETER<br />
I-Mary Gregson<br />
2-Mrs. Albert Anderson<br />
3-Mrs. B. C. Erwin<br />
HM-A. R. Carstensen<br />
DEBUTANTE<br />
I-Walter Christopher<br />
2-Frank Williams<br />
3-S. C.Wortley<br />
HM-A. W. Sheean<br />
PINK BALL<br />
l-S. C. Wortley<br />
2-K. Malcolm<br />
3-C. Breschini<br />
HM-Mrs. Myron Davis<br />
DEBUTANTE<br />
I-C. Breschini<br />
2-A. R. Carstensen<br />
3-S. C. Wortley<br />
HM-A. W. Sheean<br />
was presented with a white camellia<br />
corsage, and there were a number of<br />
favors at each place setting, including<br />
colored pictures of -the Santa<br />
Clara Valley at Blossom Time and the<br />
Rose Garden at San Jose.<br />
The visitors were also taken to a<br />
number of specialty nurseries so that<br />
they could see how we on the Pacific<br />
Coa'st grow camellias in containers.<br />
Hundreds of specimen plants were in<br />
full bloom.<br />
After motoring back to Berkeley,<br />
the visitors were entertained at small<br />
dinner parties at the homes of merrc<br />
bers of the Northern California Camellia<br />
Society or at the Claremont<br />
Hotel.<br />
After dinner, the two societies held<br />
a joint meeting and miniature camellia<br />
show in the auditorium of the<br />
Chabot School in Oakland.<br />
Mr. Roy J. Wilmot, Secretary of the'<br />
American Camellia Society, was<br />
guest speaker, taking as his subject,<br />
"Research in Camellia Culture,"<br />
which will be covered in a BULLETIN<br />
article.
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CHIYO-NO-HANAGATA (Dorothea<br />
Blanche) Delicate pink shaded white;<br />
large, billowy semi-double to incomplete<br />
double of unusual beauty. Japanese<br />
import.<br />
SHIN AKEBONO Blush-pink single<br />
of good substance, with central<br />
stand of prominent stamens. Judged<br />
best flower in 1949 Camellia Show at<br />
Sacramento.<br />
Courtesy SUNSET Magazine.<br />
Photographs by Past Director Herbert V. Mitchell.<br />
PIERETTE White, striped and dotted<br />
with pink; varies from incomplete<br />
imbricated that may open to show<br />
stamens to fluffy double irregular.<br />
ARRABELLA Light brick-red incomplete<br />
double, folded upright petals<br />
intermixed with stamens. Seedling<br />
of Mrs. Frank Edinger; named for her<br />
sister.