An Official Publication of the International Camellia Society

CONTENTS 1999 (No. 31)

Directors and Officers ...4
Tributes to Tom Savige ...7
Message from the President --- Pat Macdonald ...9
Otomo Endowment Research Fund --- Pat Macdonald ...14
Nominations for Officers for 2001-2003 --- Eve Murphy ...15


Cover Stories

Middlemist’s Red: The Treaty House Mystery --- Herb Short ...17

Middlemist’s Red: Evidence for the Genetic Identity of Old Cultivars ---  Holly Jean Spoth, Norihiro Yoshikawa and Clifford R. Parks ...22


People and Events

Bill Ackerman Wins Luther Burbank Award ...27

1999 International Camellia Congress  ...28

Of Camellia Planting and Eating --- Robert Chapman ...30

Saito and the Uraku --- Roger Brehaut ...32

Tracking Down the Original Benihyuga --- Eric Craig ...33

Habitats of Wild Camellia and Old Trees in Japan --- Shuho Kirino ...34

The Apple Camellia --- Shunpei Uemoto ...40

Touring Yakushima --- Jane Hayter ...43

To Kagoshima and Beyond --- Annemarie and August Duttweiler and Jane Hayter ...45

To Kurume and Kyoto --- Herb Short ...48

Siebold and Nagasaki --- Mary Caroni ...52

The Huntington Awaits the 2001 Congress --- Ann Richardson ...57

ICS Congress in Los Angeles – February 2001 ...59

Descanso Gardens Camellia Forest: A Working Landscape --- Tim Thibault ...62

2003 International Camellia Congress in China --- Tim Taizong Shao ...64


Obituaries
Mrs. D.M. Freeman ...67
Sir Giles Loder ...68


Books

"Cultural History of Japanese Camellias Observed in Old Documents" ...70

"Nippon Tsubaki – Sazanka Meikan" – English translation ...70


Culture and Research

White and Red Camellia at Nara’s Todaiji Temple --- Kaoru Hagiya ...72

The Chinka Hariawase Byobu and Old Camellias in Japan --- Shin’ichiro Kishikawa ...74

Of Parrots, Possums and Honeyeaters --- Kylie Waldon ...84

Camellia Trials at the Edinburgh Zoo --- Bruce Robertson ...87

Comprehensive Presentation of Camellia Japonica in Korea --- Lee Sang Rea ...90

A Short History of Camellia Breeding in New Zealand – Back to the Future --- Rod Bieleski ...93

Research on Camellia Flower Blight in New Zealand --- Peter Long and Christine Taylor ...99

Katabukuro-tsugi: Simple Incision Grafting  --- Katsusuke Oota ...103

Camellias at Longwood Gardens --- R. William Thomas ...108

Camellias in Germany – Past and Present --- Waldemar Max Hansen ...112

The Origin and Development of the Williamsii Hybrids --- Jennifer Trehane ...118

Utsukushi Asaye --- Tom Savige ...124

Transliteration of Japanese Camellia Cultivar Names --- Tom Savige ...125

New Species of Theaceae from Tropical Asia --- Chang Hung Ta and Ren Shanxiang ...127


In the Regions ...130

Treasurer’s Report ...137
Membership ...141
Back Cover:  An Old Camellia in Kurume --- Shigeo Matsumoto ...149