Product Description

Hardy camellias reward the gardener with striking and profuse blooms at a time of year when the rest of the garden sleeps. This encyclopedia is the definitive guide to these beautiful and varied flowering plants.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #983706 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

From Library Journal
Camellias are valued for their lovely flowers, which bloom when other flowering plants are resting, for their generally compact, formal habit, and for their evergreen leaves. Books about flowers are valued for stunning photographs, good organization and writing, and useful cultivation information, and this encyclopedia meets those requirements. Internationally recognized Australian author and gardener Macoboy presents here more than 1000 of the world's most popular camellias, with every entry illustrated by a color photograph. Entries are well placed with the photos and give the expected descriptions, which include flower form, color and size, parentage, date of registration, plant habit, and flowering season. The writing is informal and graceful. Of Arabian Nights, Macoboy says "There is little to connect this pretty camellia with the raunchy nocturnal enticements featured in the original translation of this oriental classic." Feature essays, illustrated with paintings by Paul Jones, provide background on camellia history, foliage, sports, and hybrids. There is a glossary and an extensive index. Recommended for all horticulture collections and wherever there is an interest in camellias.?Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
This definitive guide to camellias by Stirling Macoboy, a leading expert on the genus, with the support of coauthor Roger Mann, presents 1,096 of the most popular species, cultivars, and hybrids. Each entry includes the flower's description (the color and form of petals), cultivars' names and synonyms, Chinese and Japanese names (as a point of fact, camellias were first cultivated in China and Japan), the date of registration, parentage, flowering season, and other historical information. In addition, each entry is illustrated by a stunning color photograph; additionally, there are 19 color paintings, 17 black-and-white drawings, and 2 black-and-white photographs. Rounding out the coverage is a brief chapter on the cultivation of camellias, and a glossary. George Cohen

Review
Stirling Macoboy consummates his long love affair with camellias in this outstanding treatise. With descriptions of over 1000 camellias in cultivation today, all illustrated in superb color photographs, he has given camellia enthusiasts and novices alike a captivating and poetic reference for the genus. Pacific Horticulture, Spring 1999 (Pacific Horticulture )

Magnificently and profusely illustrated, every entry is shown In color, and where pertinent there are Japanese characters in addition to English words for cultivar names. Most highly recommended as a required addition to any library's horticultural collection. Choice, December 1998 (Choice )

A definitive guide. George Cohen, Booklist, May 1, 1998 (Booklist )