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8 Northem California Camellia Society
FOURTH ANNUAL CAMELLIA SHOW
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CAMELLIA SOCIETY, INC.
The Fourth Annual Camellia Show
of the Northern California Camellia
Society, Inc. was held at the Twentieth
Century Club in Berkeley on Saturday
and Sunday, March 19 and 20,
1949.
Some three thousand visitors were
in attendance, and each lady was
presented with a camellia corsage
through the courtesy of Toichi Domoto
Nursery, Hayward.
Special Awards
This year for the first time trophies
were awarded as special prizes for
horticultural exhibits. (The names of
previous award winners were engraved
on the cups.)
The Sweepstakes Award Trophy of
the Northern California Camellia Society
went to C. Breschini of San Jose,
who accumulated 59 award points.
Runners-up were Dr. Walker M.
Wells of Piedmont with 58 points; A.
R. Carstensen of Sacramento with 46
points; Barlow W. S. Hollingshead of
Orinda with 36 points; and Dr. G.
Myron Grismore of Oakland with 34
points.
The Paige Trophy for the most
outstanding C. Japonica bloom was
won by Dr. Walker M. Wells of Piedmont
with his Mrs. Howard Asper,
a large, pale-pink semi-double.
Benjamin F. Enos of San Leandro
was awarded the prize for the most
outstanding C. Japonica plant in container,
the Miss Sylvia May Wells
Trophy, for his floriferous Bella Romana.
It will be remembered that it
was the magnificent Reticulata speciment
plant of Mr. Enos that won the
Award of Merit at last year's show.
An Award of Merit was given Toichi
Domoto Nursery, Hayward, for a
garden planting, featuring camellias.
An Award of Merit was also given
the W. L. Stoeckles' complimentary
exhibit, which was spectacular not
only for the usual blue-ribbon quality
of their blooms - perhaps sweep-
stakes quality would be more exact
- but also for the originality and simplicity
of their arrangements. Upon
entering the main auditorium, visitors
faced a huge fan with a mass arrangement
of Chandleri Elegans camellias
on an ivory base, on the far wall.
Below this was a grouping of camellia
arrangements in old Chinese pewter
containers: Ville de Nantes with pine
needles; Gigantea with redbud; Shin
Akebono and Lady Clare Vgt., each
with camellia foliage.
Complimentary Exhibits
Capitol Grounds, Sacramento, under
the direction of Jerry Olrich, State
Gardener, displayed over a hundred
named varieties of camellias from
their gardens which contain some
1600 camellia plants and about 600
named varieties. If you were impressed
with this colorful and instructive
exhibit, don't fail to visit the Capitol
Grounds during the month of
March and marvel at "the aristocrats
of the garden" at the height of their
bloom.
Another complimentary exhibit of
blooms which must have warmed the
hearts of all camellia lovers, was presented
by that dear lady, Mrs. Frank
Edinger of Rosebud Farm at Hood,
about 16 miles below Sacramento on
the Sacramento river. Some of these
seedlings were the offspring of her
famous Wakanoura tree, which is
thought to be the largest in the United
States. It was planted by her father,
an l3arly pioneer, some seventy-five
years ago.
A "thank you" exhibit of blooms
came by air express from Portland,
Oregon, from the camellia garden of
the Gene Grischow family, guests of
Dr. and Mrs. G. Myron Grismore on
the recent Camellia Tour.
Commercial Exhibits
Courtesy exhibits of camellia plants
and hundreds of outstanding speci-