CAMELLIA HISTORY LINKS

 

PEOPLE

Camellia Personality A Pioneer's Search for Camellias Robert O. Rubel, Jr.

 

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook-1993-Camellia%20Personality,%20A%20Pioneers%20Search%20for%20Camellias.pdf

Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Petre,_8th_Baron_Petre

PETIVER CAMELLIA DRAWING  1702

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/173715#page/147/mode/1up

ROBERT FORTUNE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fortune

THE SAWADAS AND THEIR CAMELLIAS

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook-1965-The%20Sawadas%20and%20their%20Camellias.pdf

Kosaku Sawada

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook-1969-Kosaku%20Sawada.pdf

CAMELLIAS IMPORTED BY E. A. MclLHENNY

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook_1950_08_Camellias_Imported_by_E_A_McIlhenny.pdf

THE CAMELLIA ACTIVITIES OF E. A. McILHENNY

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook_1953_46_The_Camellia_Activities_of_E_A_McIlhenny.pdf

Kosaku Sawada, American by Bill Ray

http://genesnursery.com/posts/279

KIYONO LIFE MAGAZINE 1939

http://www.atlanticcoastcamelliasociety.org/assets/pdf/Life%20Magazine%20Camellias%20-%201939.pdf

ANDRE MICHAUX

http://www.michaux.org/michaux.htm

JOHN STEVENS

http://hmag.com/john-stevens-avid-gardener-hobokens-horticultural-history/2/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stevens_(inventor)

BOOKS

An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=header;pview=hide;id=DLDecArts.Nieuhof

Illustrations and descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order Camellieae, and of the varieties of Camellia japonica

https://books.google.com/books?id=_g9JAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

 

TWO VISITS TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA AND THE BRITISH TEA PLANTATIONS IN THE HIMALAYA;   ROBERT FORTUNE

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/181321#page/89/mode/thumb

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/181344#page/9/mode/1up

ICONOGRAPHIE DU GENRE CAMELLIA

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9935#page/10/mode/1up

FLORA JAPONICA 

http://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit-e/b01/b01cont.html

THE HISTORY OF JAPAN

https://archive.org/details/historyjapantog00kaemgoog

KAEMPFER

https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=aAE2AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PP10

The history of Japan, together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam, 1690-92. Translated by J. G. Scheuchzer.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005211902;view=1up;seq=14

CAMELLIAE AND OF THE VARIETIES OF CAMELLIA JAPONICA CHANDLER AND BOOTH 1831

https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=_g9JAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PP8

NOUVELLE ICONOGRAPHIE DES CAMELLIAS  1851 1860

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044102810918;view=1up;seq=11

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044102810900;view=1up;seq=12

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044102810892;view=1up;seq=16

Verschaffelt's Nouvelle Iconographie Des Camellias GEORGE GRAVES

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/167%20%20Verschaffelts%20Nouvelle%20Iconographie%20Des%20Camellias.pdf

PRACTICAL CAMELLIA CULTURE 1880

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/57194#page/6/mode/1up

MONOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS CAMELLIA 1838 MCILHENY EDITION

file:///C:/Users/jdwye/Desktop/CAMELLIA%20TALK/CAMELLIA%20INFO/HISTORY/BOOKS/MONOGRAPHY%20ON%20THE%20GENUS%20CAMELLIA.pdf

 

CATALOGS

LANGDON NURSERY CATALOG

http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/162100#page/3/mode/1up

https://thehistoricfoodie.wordpress.com/tag/langdon-nurseries/

http://www.archives.alabama.gov/conoff/langdon.html

ALVIN JAPANESE NURSERY

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187337#page/2/mode/1up

 

 

CAMELLIA· CATALOGUE of E. A. McILHENNY

http://www.atlanticcoastcamelliasociety.org/assets/pdf/McIlhenny%20-%201945-1946.pdf

FLOWERWOOD NURSERY

http://www.atlanticcoastcamelliasociety.org/assets/pdf/Flowerwood%20-%201942-1943.pdf

Pacific Nursery 1900

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/173991#page/3/mode/1up

Catalogue of camellias, rhododendrons, cactus, and other beautiful green house plants 1840

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcamel1840cjwo

ELLWANGER AND BARRY 1861

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/136566#page/2/mode/1up

HOVEY AND COMPANY 1857

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150695#page/3/mode/1up

HOVEY AND COMPANY 1854

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150697#page/2/mode/1up

LANDRETH AND FULTON 1844

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/153071#page/4/mode/1up

MAGAZINES AND ARTICLES

EARLY CHINESE SCROLL WITH CAMELLIAS

https://books.google.com/books?id=GGFRtpz5WmYC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=song+dynasty+FOUR+MAGPIES&source=bl&ots=MOwR0DF4jn&sig=GfJCgy4IFFsoRgPtjwfEyQHA38U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3vM_pv7XPAhXEOCYKHWlHADcQ6AEIXzAQ#v=onepage&q=song%20dynasty%20FOUR%20MAGPIES&f=false

The Camellia-A Condensed History ELIZABETH (MRS. A. B.) COOPER

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/154%20%20The%20Camellia-A%20Condensed%20History.pdf

 

magazine of botany and gardening

https://books.google.com/books?id=-PUWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=magazine+of+botany+and+gardening&source=bl&ots=kEYh54tFlW&sig=twGGnhvu3pcuKqBC_ucHqybyJz4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuo9jh4L_PAhUC4CYKHafzCOcQ6AEILDAC#v=onepage&q&f=false

WILLIAM CURTIS BOTANICAL MAGAZINE

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7351#page/1/mode/1up

WARDIAN CASE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bagshaw_Ward

EARLY HISTORY OF CAMELLIAS IN THE MOBILE AREA ROBERT RUBEL ,"Longview,"Crichton, Alabama

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook_1952_54_Early_History_of_Camellias_in_the_Mobile_Area.pdf

OLD CAMELLIAS OF LOUISIANA'S WEST FELICIANA PARISH

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook_1952_55_Old_Camellias_of_Louisianas_West_Feliciana_Parish.pdf

A GENERAL HISTORY OF CAMELLIA JAPONICA IN JAPAN

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook-1952-A%20General%20History%20of%20Camellia%20Japonica%20in%20Japan.pdf

Tea - A Brief History of the Nation's Favourite Beverage

https://www.tea.co.uk/tea-a-brief-history

CAMELLIA HISTORY FROM PETIVER TO LINNAEOUS-- HUME

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook-1946-Camellia%20History%20from%20Petiver%20to%20Linnaeus.pdf

The Magazine of horticulture, botany V1-V34

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007910128

MISCELLANEOUS

THE CULTURE OF CAMELLIAS—ARCHIVED ONLINE EXHIBIT

http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/_current/CultureofCamellias.pdf

FIRST CAMELLIA BLOOM IN ENGLAND

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=turn&entity=DLDecArts.NatHistEd02.p0060&id=DLDecArts.NatHistEd02&isize=M

HOW THE CAMELLIA CAME TO CALIFORNIA

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook-1947-How%20the%20Camellia%20Came%20to%20California.pdf

EARLY AMERICAN CAMELLIAS

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook-1947-Early%20American%20Camellias.pdf

EARLY HISTORY OF CAMELLIAS IN THE MOBILE AREA

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook_1952_54_Early_History_of_Camellias_in_the_Mobile_Area.pdf

GARDENS

JUNGLE GARDEN CAMELLIAS

http://www.pamandedmundmcilhenny.com/keyword/Camellia/i-hFvgh2V

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/garden/03Camellia.html?_r=0

http://junglegardens.toursphere.com/en/15-camellias-91715.html

http://www.atlanticcoastcamelliasociety.org/assets/pdf/McIlhenny%20-%201945-1946.pdf

https://books.google.com/books?id=UvYCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7&lpg=PP7&dq=mcilhenny+camellia&source=bl&ots=8JrO7WBv4I&sig=BznfvGV-zqgrQZuVl5DIwJiGtPk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXmoX2_8LMAhXIyyYKHfNhAzEQ6AEIUTAJ#v=onepage&q=mcilhenny%20camellia&f=false

MIDDLETON PLACE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton_Place

BELLINGRATH GARDENS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingrath_Gardens_and_Home

https://camelliassww.blob.core.windows.net/assets/Yearbook-1947-Bellingrath%20Gardens.pdf

WILMOT GARDENS

http://wilmotgardens.med.ufl.edu/history/

http://studiohourglass.blogspot.com/2009/07/restoring-wilmot-gardens.html