1955 American Camellia Yearbook
Table of Contents
Relative Species and Varieties
1 New Camellias During the Next Ten Years
Ralph S. Peer
3 Some Hybrid Camellias
H. G. Hillier
10 Camellia Reticulata and Its Garden Varieties
Te-Tsun Yu
24 Camellia Mutants and Their Nomenclature
A. W. Jessep
29 New Camellias on the West Coast
E. C. Tourje
41 My Seedling Camellias
Harvey F. Short
45 New Camellias from the Northwest
Mrs. Carrie Kamphaus
47 Camellia Introductions from the Gulf Coast
Jessie and Sigmund J. Katz
53 My Experience With Camellia Seedlings
R. L. Wheeler
60 Notes on New Zealand Camellias
Mimosa and Felix Jury
64 Camellias in Australia
Walter G. Hazlewood
73 Camellias in Portugal
Joaquim Moreira da Silva
80 The Mereatelli Camellias
E. G. Waterhouse
88 Commercial Propagation of Camellia Sinensis in India
W. Wight
100 Cultural Experimentation Committee Report
Diseases and Pests
106 Ten Years of Camellia Pathology
D. L Gill
115 Some Camellia Diseases
Erdman West
119 Nematode Damage to Camellias
R. L. Self and Eldon J. Cairns
General Culture
124 Life
Charles L. Gay
129 Psychological Effect of Camellias
Margaret Bradley Dykes
131 Master or Slave?
Harriet Hentz Hauser
135 Confessions of a Camelliaphile
Frank Stanford Persons II
141 Some Whys and Wherefores of Watering
G. J. Stout
148 Camellia Character
Roy T. Thompson
152 What Every Camellia Grower Should Know
Claude Chidamian
159 What I Have Learned About Growing Camellias in the Past Ten Years
S. L. Marbury
163 Some Comments on Pruning
Harold L. Paige
172 Why Grow Seedlings
David L. Feathers
178 Cross-Pollination of Camellia Flowers
K. Sawada
187 Notes on Transplanting Camellias
J. Howard Asper
190 Mulches
E. C. McRee
193 It's Easier Done Than Said
Frank Barranco
203 One Man's Greenhouse
David L. Feathers
207 Rooting Response of Camellia Japonica to Chemical Treatments
Henry P. Orr and Dvon Brogan
Plantings and Gardens
214 Camellias at the Villa Taranto
Neil McEacharn
218 The Camellia in Italy
Guiliano Puccini
225 Camellias in New York
P. W. Zimmerman
232 Camellias in Virginia
Frederic Heutte
239 The Oakdale Camellias
Henry B. Rehder
246 Photographing the Camellia Blossom
Robert P. Woltz, Jr.
251 Camellias in Florida
John Niles Sewell
Cold Injury
Shows, Awards and Varietal Registration
300 The 1955 Arrangement Contest
Mrs. W. Jack Bryant
315 Modern Trends in Flower Arranging
Marie Stevens Wood
324 The Oregon Camellia Society Promotes Culture of the Camellia
L. H. Lindsay
334 Supplemental List of Varieties of Camellias Registered with the A. C. S.
Camellia Literature
342 Camellia Writings
H. Harold Hume