Sonnet JOHN PATON Killara, NSW, Australia August 1982 TO A CAMELLIA Sweet Celestial Flower, Which burst from green-ed womb so ripe: What awe I feel that Life Produced in you such hues superb From dull brown earth and greying stem, To so delight my eyes, Where curves and shapes, your nuanced forms Are consummate of Flora's art. My heart and mind expand so full To contemplate your sight: A yellow'd sere is not your fate! Your life and memory of you their troth will plight! . Oh, I shall love you with the purest thought And will your presence to my very being brought. The International.Camellia Society was inaugurated in 1962 with the following motives: 1. To foster the love of Camellias throughout the world, and to maintain and increase their popularity. 2. To undertake historical, scientific and horticultural research in connection with Camellias. 3.. To co-operate with all national regional Camellia Societies and with other Horticultural Societies. 4. To disseminate information concerning Camellias by means of bulletins and other publications. 5. To encourage a friendly exchange between Camellia enthusiasts of all nationalities. The International Camellia Journal No. 14 OCTOBER 1982 An Official Publication of The International Camellia Society DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY 1982 PRESIDENT Mrs Violet Lort-Phillips, Channel Islands VICE·PRESIDENTS· Mrs Violet Stone, Baton Rouge, USA Mr John Tooby, Worcester, England Mr Eric Craig, Sydney, Australia REGIONAL DIRECTORS Africa Mr Leslie Riggall, South Africa America Mr Lewis Fetterman, North Carolina Mr Thomas Perkins III, Mississippi Mr William D. Stewart, California Asia Dr Kaoru Hagiya, Japan Mr Yoshiaki Sakakura, Japan Australia Mr John Alpen, New South Wales Mr Ray Garling, Victoria Dr John Pedler, South Australia France M. Claude Thoby, Nantes Italy-Switzerland Dr Antonio Sevesi, Milan New Zealand Mr Owen Moore, Wanganui Portugal Sr Jose Gil de Ferreira, Santo Tirso Spain D. Juan Armada Diez de Rivera, Santiago de Compostela United Kingdom Lady Anne Cowdray, Wiltshire Miss Cicely Perring, Sussex Mr David Trehane, Cornwall Other Regions Mms Ghislaine Rems, Belgium Mrs B. de Veulle, Channel Islands SECRETARY David 1. Davies, Trentham, Mead Road, Chislehurst, Kent, BR76AD TREASURER· Mrs. Joan Bowskill, 193 Ashburnham Road, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 6AD MEMBERSHIp·REGISTRAT ­ EDITOR Kenwyn Clapp, Colebrook House, Plympton, Plymouth, England 1 Contents Contenu Contenuto Contenido October 1982 A Message from the President 3 Editorial .. 3 Financial Statements . 75 By-laws of I.C.S ... 76 I.C.S. Membership Table . 79 Members Subscription Rates . 80 Membership Lists . 81 PEOPLE AND EVENTS New Society Officers . 4 A New Australian Director 5 International Congress Sacramento . 6 I.C.S. Conference, Egham ,England April 1982 . Robin Miller 11 Yoshiaki Andoh - Tributes from the Regions . 20 Milton Brown - Appreciation. ..... John Tooby - Eric Craig 23 Les Jury 1901-1982 . David Trehane 25 Tom Savige - An Appreciation . Vi Lort-Phillips 25 'Those were the Days" . Bernice Gunn 42 Sidelights on the 1981 Jersey Conference . Barbara de Veulle 43 I.C.S. Exhibits at R.H.S. Shows 1982 .. Joyce Wyndham 49 CAMELLIAS ARE TRULY UNIVERSAL Yunnan Camellia Flowers .. ............................ Tom Savige 9 An explanation of the book "Yunnan Camellia Flowers" .......... .... Xia Lifang 10 A History of the I.C.S . ...... Tom Savige & Eric Craig 33 Further Suggestions to assist South African Camellians ........... LE. Alpen 36 Tregrehan, Cornwall, England ..... ............................ Tom Savige 47 A Tale of Tali . A.E. (peter) Campbell 51 Ten best performers in Tokyo 1982 . Yoshiaki Andoh 55 New Zealand National Camellia Show 1981 . ....................... Mrs. Austen 59 Mrs. Hill's Camellias - North Atlantic U.S A . .......... John Alpen 60 Correspondence with China . ..... John Tooby & Stephen Haw 64 Land of the Falling Rain . ... Leslie Riggall 67 CULTURE & RESEARCH Cluster for Fragrance . .. ........ Ken Hailstone 16 Is it worth trying? . Dr. Jimmy Smart 17 Future Camellia Development . .. Les Jury 26 Sazanka and its hybrids . .. Dr. Clifford R. Parks 29 Gardening Tomorrow. ... Violet Lort-Phillips 37 Winter at Broadleas, England. ......... Lady AnneCowdray 40 Notes on Leonardslee . .................. Sir Giles Loder 40 Camellia X Williamsii Trial 1982 Wisley, England . 41 Tissue culture - An Australian up-date . .............. John Alpen 44 "3 in one" , .. , , . .. Leonard Webber 56 ''E. G. Waterhouse of Eryldene" . ....... Sir Hermann Black 56 Review of ''E. G. Waterhouse of Eryldene" . .......... , Margaret Perkins 58 Problems of tissue culture . .. .. .. Dr. S. H. Mantell 61 Doncklaeri-Donckelarii . ................ '" Tom Savige 66 Placing Camellias in the garden ..... .. David Trehane 71 ''Bowen Bryant" - An Award of Merit. ....... Eric Craig 80 Cover: President Elect Violet Lort-Phillips at La Colline, Jersey, C./. 2 Message from the President Message du President Messaggis del Presidente Messaggis del Presidente T. J. SAVIGE President, International Camellia Society To the Incoming Executive - Welcome. successes stemmed not only from the fine In the day to day business of running a truly organisational work that was put into them International Society such as our own Inter­ and to the friendship and international frater­ national Camellia Society, with voluntary nisation that occurred, but most of all to the executive officers, it has been found exped­ wonderful hospitality of the host areas. There itious, particularly for the purpose of quick is no doubt that these congresses opened doors, consultation and action, to have the executive and garden gates, and provided opportunities officers grouped in the same country as the not normally available to ordinary tours. President. Exciting and wonderful as all this has been, This principle was adopted at the 1973 it has placed a considerable burden, both in International Congress in Sydney when an time and expense, on the members of the Australian team was nominated around the Executive, many of whom attended all the first President, Professor Waterhouse and has congresses, and now thetime is approaching been followed in the 9 years since. when the guidance of the Societywill be taken On his death I was honoured by being elected over by a new executive. While expressing my as his replacement and the following 5 years own gratitude, and through me the gratitude have been very busy, but most rewarding ones. of all our members, to the various office bearers Supported by an enthusiastic and hard working of the Society who have worked so diligently Executive, the operation of the Society has for the best interests of the Society, I wish to proceeded reasonably smoothly, helped con­ welcome, on their behalf, the new executive siderably by the annual face-to-face Directors officers who will replace them in 1983. meetings where society policy has been decided May they, each and every one, experience and guidelines set for the executive for the the same satisfaction and receive the same ensuing year. acceptance and co-operation that has been In this time, we have had five excellent and the lot of the present team, who will always most exciting International Congresses, each stand ready to offer any future assistance and exceeding by far our expectations. Their help for which they may be asked. Editorial Editorial Editorial Editoriale It was with great regret that the Society has been necessary to arrange the voting and learntthat MrJohn Alpen would be unable to other matters required consequent upon the edit the Society's Journal for 1982. Your change ofexecutive officers and the appoint­ substitute Editor for this year is now able to ment of new directors. Regretfully this has appreciate just how well heand the Society's not left sufficient time to gether in all the earlier Editor, Eric Craig, have served the usual biographical details and photographs of Society. The changeover from Australia to those concerned. Information received in time the United Kingdom has not been easy and if, has been published in this Journal and Society as is hoped, the current Journal achieves its members will be fully introduced to all others aims, this will be largely due to the help, taking office in 1983 in the next Journal. advice andencouragement ofJohn Alpen and Members will have noticed that the "motives" Eric Craig, supplemented by words of wisdom of the Society have been reprinted inside the from our President Tom Savige. front cover of this Journal. All of these are A tremendous amount ofadministrative work important but the fifth is particularly worthy 3 ofattention in view ofthe Congress to be held in Sacramento in 1983. In what better way and in what better place could Camellia enthusiasts enjoy a friendly exchange than at this splendidly arranged and organised Congress in the "Camellia Capital of the World"? In the very first Camellia Journal in 1962 a contn'butor said "I hail this Society with a sense of uplift. So often Society s are born to fight against something. Here is something different; a society offlower flowers - in particular the Camellia - which, amazing though this may seem, is interested in people". May it always remain so. New Society Officers Les nouveaux membres du bureau Los nuevos oficiales de la Sociedad I nuovi ufficiali della Societa President-Elect - Mrs. Violet Lort-Pbillips all parts of the world including, of course, a Next January Violet Lort-Phillips will become magnificent collection of camellias. In 1978 the third President of our Society. Born Violet she and her husband formed the Channel St. Aubyn she was as a child captivated by the Island Garden Conservation Trust with the beauty of a camellia growing against the stable aim of preserving the garden for the pleasure wall at the family home in Devonshire. and interest of future generations. She married Raymond Lort-Phillips in 1929 She became a Director of the Society in and it was not until he was invalided out of 1975 and Vice-President in 1981 when she the army in 1945 and they moved to Hampshire organised the Channel Islands leg of the dual that she had a garden where she could grow Santiago/Jersey Congress and many of us were camellias.