1992 American Camellia Yearbook

i Inside Cover and Copyright

iv Gregory E. Davis

v Dedication to Gregory E. Davis

vii In Appreciation - Frank Jamison

Ann Blair Brown

ix In Appreciation - John Geiser

Robert A. Stroud

xi In Appreciation - William W. Donnan

Art Gonos

xiii Purposes of the Society

xiv ACS Officers, State Directors, Directors-at-Large

xv Board of Directors

xvi Past Presidents and Fellows

xvii Bronze Plaque

xviii ACS Certificate of Commendation

xviii USA Officers and Directors - International Camellia Society

xix ACS National Awards

xxi National Hall of Fame

xxii Table of Contents

1 A New Species of Yellow Camellia From Guangxi

Luo Jin-yu

3 A Revision of the Species Camellia Chrysantha Hu Tuyama

Cbang Hung-ta and Ye Cbuang-xing

6 Camellia crapnelliana Tutcher

Clifford R. Parks

10 Where Did The Form of Higo Camellia Come From

Yoshiaki Andob

13 Classification of Camellia Species New Approaches

Clifford R. Parks

22 Plantae Novae Guangxiensis

Mo Sin-li and Zhong Ye-cong

24 The Judges Have Spoken

31 New Varieties Registered Since the 1991 Yearbook

41 Camellias in China

Nevill Haydon

47 Aunt Jetty Has a Name

Bob Gramling

49 American Camellia Society Committees 1992-93

51 Espalier-Another Dimension in Camellia Use and Application

Irving B. Anderson

53 Espalier A Nice Way to Flatten a Camellia

Helen D. Brown

56 Espalier

Tyler B. Dunlap

62 Searching for Camellia Japonica in China

Harold A. Fraser

67 Japans Sacred Cranes and Camellias Associated With Them

T. J. Savige

70 Yunnan Flowers at Home and at Edinburgh

Te-Tsun Yu

77 Camellias in the Peoples Republic of China

Huang Teh-Ling

81 Camellia Growing in Japan is Alive and Doing Well

Philip W. Ireland

87 Portuguese Camellia Nurseries

Robert Gimson

90 The Carylon Camellias

John T. Gallagber

93 Melbourne Revisited

John Hunt

97 Camellias in Mexico, Part I

Alys Honey

99 Camellias in Mexico, Part II

Esther P. de Salinas

100 The Camellias of Buckingham Palace Gardens

D. J. Mitchell

101 The Life Cycle of a Camellia

P. G. Valder

110 Camellia Flower Blight, 1992

Luther W. Baxter, Jr. and Charles A. Thomas, Jr.

113 Variations in Karyotype and Nucleous Number in Camellia Japonica

Zhijian Gu, Katsuhiko Kondo and Yang Shik Kim

118 Rapid Clonal-Propagation of Matricaria chamomilla by Tissue

Hiroyuki Takano, Moria Hirano, Kenji Taniguchi, Ryuso Tanaka and Katsuihiko Kondo

123 Karotypes in Wild Type and Some Cultivars of Camellia

Jugen Zhou, Katsuhiko Kondo and Michiyo Kato

131 Karyomorphological studies in Chinese Plant-Species

Katisuhiko Kondo, Kenji Taniguchi, Ryuso Tanaka and Zhijian Gu

157 1991-92 Design Contest

Mrs. Esther P. de Salinas