Camellia Culture

Published by The Macmillan Company, 1958. Edited gy E.C. Tourje. Hardcover, 484 pages. Pre-owned in good coNdition. Dustcover shows age.

A compendium of the latest scientific practices described from their own experience by 55 of the country's leading research workers and Camellia growers have joined forces to give you the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume available on the culture of this favorite flowering shrub. The contributing authors, who are numbered among the country's leading camellia growers and researchers, are all known for the fine quality of the plants they grow for sale, research, public display or as a hobby. Among the topics thoroughly discussed are landscape design, planting, care, shipping, propagation, diseases and pests and their control, and breeding. The chapter on radiation genetics is the most complete ever written for the gardner. Photogarphs and line drawings in abundance supplement the text. Three full-page color plates amplify it futher, showing, besides the new interspecific hybrid, informative illustrations of flower blight and of radiation genetics. Some chapter headings Espaliering Camellias, Bonsai Sasanqua, The Art of Grafting, Air Layering, Embryo Culture in Camellia Seed Germination, Reticulatas, Sasanquas, Nematode Parasites, Variegation, Chromosomes and Their Relation to Camellia Breeding, Interspecific Camellia Hybridizing Possibilities, Use of Ionizing Radiation in Plant Breeding, etc.