INTERNATIONAL CAMELLIA JOURNAL 2013 INTERNATIONAL CAMELLIA JOURNAL 2013 C. dongnaiensis, a new camellia discovered by George Orel and Anthony Curry on a recent expedition to the Da Lat Plateau and the Lang Biang Massif in the ICS Garden of Excellence Parco delle Camelie, Locarno, Switzerland southern provinces of Viet Nam. The exploration was a joint venture between Photograph supplied by the Tourist Office Lago Maggiore Australian and Australian-Vietnamese scientific teams during which at least nine new species were found. An official publication of the International Camellia Society Journal Number 45 ISSN 0159-656X International CamelliaSocietyCongress see p41 2014 Printed by The Minster Press, 14 Mill Lane, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 1LN, UK. +44 (0)1202 882277 1 International Camellia Journal 2013 No. 45 Aims of the International Camellia Society To foster the love of camellias throughout the world and maintain and increase their popularity To undertake historical, scientific and horticultural research in connection with camellias To co-operate with all national and regional camellia societies and with other horticultural societies To disseminate information concerning camellias by means of bulletins and other publications To encourage a friendly exchange between camellia enthusiasts of all nationalities Major dates in the International Camellia Society calendar International Camellia Society Congresses 2014 Tuesday 11 March to Saturday 15 March --- Galicia, North West Spain. 2016 --- Dali, Yunnan, China. 2018 --- Nantes, Brittany, France. 2020 --- Goto City, Japan. Published in 2013 by the International Camellia Society. © The International Camellia Society unless otherwise stated. 2 Contents Message from the President 5 Patricia L. Short Notes from the Editor 7 Beatrice Robson Web Manager’s Report 8 David Trehane International Camellia Society Congress 2014, Galicia, Spain 9 The Third International Academic Forum on Yellow Camellias 21-23 February 2013 11 Overview by ICS President Patricia Short 11 Six days in Guangxi 14 Tony Curry The 3rd International Academic Forum on Yellow Camellias – a personal view 17 Waldemar Max Hansen Gardens of Excellence 20 Stangate Camellia Garden, South Australia 20 Kevin Bowden A cruel winter at Park ar Brug, Brittany, France 21 Roger Salaun News from the FLORA, the Botanical Garden of Cologne, Germany 22 Dr Stephan Anhalt Protective work in progress for historic camellias at the Goto Camellia Forest Park in Japan 23 Chuji Hiruki Camellias at the Auckland Botanic Gardens, New Zealand 24 Mark Fielder & Shaun Rice Dunedin Botanic Garden, New Zealand 27 Marianne Groothuis Vergelegen, Somerset West, South Africa 29 Laura Dickenson Camellias at Marwood Hill Gardens, North Devon, UK 30 Malcolm Pharoah Trewithen Gardens, Cornwall, UK 31 Gary Long Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Torpoint, Cornwall, UK 32 Lee Stenning Camellia Festival 32 Historic Camellias and Conservation 33 19th century camellias at Quinta de Santo Inácio de Fiães, Portugal 33 Joana Andresen Guedes and António Assunção Rare Blooms in a Glorious Setting 35 Diane Schaefer Fire and Drought and the Palheiro camellias 37 Christina Blandy Camellia, a funeral plant in western culture 40 J. Izco Mystery camellias 44 Historic camellias symposium, Pallanza, April 2013 45 An introduction by Gianmario Motta, 45 An overview of the Symposium 45 Bee Robson The Pallanza Symposium papers 50 Historic Camellias: Identification, Protection, and Enjoyment 50 Chuji Hiruki 3 Early Camellias in the United States 51 Florence Crowder Data Collection for historic camellias - a practical guide 52 Bee Robson Conservation of historic camellias 58 Gianmario Motta Characterization of Camellia japonica cultivars using molecular markers 61 P. Vela C. Salinero J.L. Couselo C. Paz M. González-García M.J. Sainz Camellia Petal Blight 71 Resisting the rot: A research-based recommendation for camellia petal blight control 71 Matthew Denton-Giles and Paul P. Dijkwel A practical guide for assessing camellia petal blight resistance in your own garden 75 Matthew Denton-Giles It is up to us 77 Neville Haydon The Third International Academic Forum on Yellow Camellias 21-23 February 2013 – Papers 79 The Conservation and2 Cultivation of Yellow Camellia Species 79 Chinmei Hung , Shihlin Lee Preliminary morphological assessment of six new, yellow floweringCamellia (Theaceae) species from Viet Nam 83 George Orel and Anthony S. Curry Camellia Dilinhensis: A New Yellow Species from Viet Nam 87 Tran Ninh Luong Van Dung Camellia Breeding to Develop Yellow Camellia Flowers 90 John T. Wang Growth responses of five Camellia species to air pollution from sulfur dioxide and fluoride 94 HU Xian-cong YIN Aihua New hope for breeding new varieties with Camellia chuangtsoensis 97 YOU Mu-xian JOHN WANG YOU Ming-fei HUANG Lian-dong Three Decades of Breeding Golden Camellia Varieties in Nanning Golden Camellia Park 101 HUANG Lian-dong LI Zhi-hui LU Fang QIN Ming-quan LUO Yan-ying Genetic diversity and Relationship among Camellia japonica populations in China and Japan 104 LIN Li NI Sui LI Ji-Yuan HU Zhong-Yi Genetic Relationship among 29 Yellow Camellia Germplasms in Nanning Golden Park by ISSR Analysis 113 Differentiation of adventitious buds and induction of somatic embryos derived from immature cotyledons of Camellia azalea 119 Wu Bin, Li Jiyuan, Fan Zhengqi The Yellow Camellias of the Tam Dao National Park 122 Tran Ninh Le Nguyet Hai Ninh Another example that yellow flowered hybrids produced from cross-combination with non-yellow Camellia species 128 LIU Xin-Kai ZHONG Nai-Sheng FENG Gui-Mei YAN Dan-Feng GAO Ji-Yin From Far East to Alps 133 Gianmario Motta Extracts 139 The Characteristics of Tropical and Rare Golden Camellias and Their Introduction 139 WANG Zhong-lang SHEN Yun-guang FENG Bao-jun A fl avonol synthase gene related to yellow flowers inCamellia nitidissima 139 LI Ji-yuan ZHOU Xing-wen FAN Zhengqi YIN Heng-fu SUN Ying-kun LI Xin-lei CHEN Yue Identification of Camellia nitidissima Chi Hybrids by ISSR 140 Fan Zhengqi, Li Jiyuan, Li Xinlei, Yin Hengfu, Xiao Zheng, Sun Yingkun Brief Introduction of the Field Genebank for Camellia sasanqua in Anji Zhejiang 140 LIN Tian LI Tian-fei Wei Chun-long LI Shou-guo GE Guo-jun LUO Li-jun Spatial-temporal variability of volatile components of Camellia azalea Wei 141 LI Xin-lei LI Ji-yuan SUN Zhen-yuan FAN Zheng-qi YIN Heng-fu 4 A New Processing Technique for Drying Fresh Flowers of Species in Camellia Sect.Theopsis 141 NI Sui YING Zhen HAN Qin WU Fan News from the Regions 142 Miscellany 149 Nine new yellow flowering Camellia (Theaceae) species from Viet Nam 149 George Orel & Anthony S. Curry Summer camellias - new hybrids from Professor Gao 156 Bee Robson Early breeding experiments with yellow camellias – a review of the work of Bill Ackerman 158 Patricia Short ICS trial gardens 159 Mike Robson Camellias Database ‘Camelbase’ 163 André Gloaguen Letters to the Journal 164 ICS Profiles 165 Shin’ichiro Kishikawa 165 Bee Robson Dr. William Ackerman: A Man with a Vision 168 Gene Phillips New Registrations 170 Book Reviews 171 Verschaffelt - une dynastie d’entrepreneurs horticulteurs à Gand au XIXE Siécle 171 Antique Camellias of Lake Maggiore Volume 2 172 Deceased 2013 173 Obituaries 174 Treasurer’s Report 183 Mrs C Million ICS Membership Report 187 Ines Kasimir International Camellia Society Directors and other Officers 194 Translations 197 Chinese 197 translated by Wang Zhonglang French 200 translated by Max Hill German 203 translated by Karin Jacobs–Gebauer Italian 206 translated by Gianmario Motta Japanese 209 translated by Shigeo Matsumoto Portuguese 213 translated by Joana Guedes Spanish 216 translated by Pilar Vila and Gianmario Motta 5 Message from the President Patricia L. Short After all the excitement of our 50th anniversary year, and before all the preparations for the Congress in Spain and Portugal in 2014, I expected the year 2013 to be rather “flat” – not necessarily uninteresting, but maybe not too exciting. How wrong I was! Over the course of the last year, we have seen hybridizing efforts that promise interesting new developments. For example, in this Journal you will read about the work being done by Matthew Denton-Giles on species that show resistance to camellia petal blight. New hybrids are being commercialized by Dan Charvet in northern California, using species that show resistance to the blight. We saw some examples of his blooms at the American Camellia Society convention in California’s Napa Valley in January, and very impressive they were. We have continued to receive news of new cultivars being grown by Professor Gao Jiyin in China, based on his work with summer-blooming C. changii, which offer potentially extended blooming periods for camellias. And we have seen some of the cultivars being created by Professor Clifford Parks, in the U.S., who is working with species other than the traditional japonica, reticulata, and sasanqua, with the aim of enriching the camellia gene pool for future hybridization. And sitting in on the Third Academic Forum on Yellow Camellias in Nanning, China, I was impressed by the work being done there on developing hybrids that capture the elusive golden yellow of species such as C. nitidissima but that do not have the same critical need for a warm, humid climate in order to thrive. Many of these developments are being reported in this year’s Journal, under the editorship of Bee Robson. When Jennifer Trehane handed over the post for this year’s publication, following her brilliant reign as editor of the International Camellia Journal, we all hoped on Bee’s behalf that she would be able to find interesting and newsy articles to fill her first Journal. I think you will see that she has been very successful in this regard, with a wide 6 variety of subjects that should appeal to our broad membership. Our deep gratitude to everyone who provided information to her for inclusion in the Journal.