
NEW CAMELLIA MRS. WALTER ALLAN 
Stamen-Featured Camallia 
Excites Local Attention 
This camellia flower bloomed 
on a bush that came last week to 
Mrs. Earle Kluttz, 520 South Ful- 
ton Street, from the originator, 
Walter Allan Nurseries, Summer- 
ville, S.C.) -Ttivis “named ) irs: 
Walter Allan. 
News of its arrival soon spread 
among other camellia enthusiasts 
in town, who came to see_ the 
more than five-foot plant almost 
before it had been placed in its 
new setting. It was a gorgeous 
sighi, a plant of fine slender up- 
right stems, rich foliage, 
many fully opened rose 
blooms with prominent and 
merous yellow stamens, the 
ter so vivid as to resemble 
fluffy brush. 
Mrs. Kluttz had read about the 
Mrs. Walter Allan variety in the 
American Camellia Society Year- 
book, and she liked what the 
originator said about it: “Flowers 
consistently large and almost im- 
pervious to frost and cold unless 
they are old ones and the temper- 
ature is extremely low. Flowers 
have lasted on plants over two 
weeks and sometimes die and 
have to be pulled from plants 
weeks later. Longest lasting 
flower I have ever seen or heard 
of. Blooms from early January | 
red 
nu- 
lat- 

through February and sometimes 
in March. Both plants and flowers 
seem to be extremely hardy.” 
Mr. Allan wrote Mrs. 
that the plant which he named 
for his wife, first bloomed in 
1940, when it was five or six vears 
old. It came from seeds probably 
(of Donckelaari. On the original 
,plant the flowers varied from 
leight petals to 12 or 13. Some had 
petaloids. From grafting it now 
-has blooms of full double form 
petaloids. 
LS2OM He among the 
A: have averaged over five! 
Kluttz | 
dainty singles, the airy semi 
doubles, the florid peony types. 
and the giants with featured sta- 
men centers. She still prefers a 
few perfect blossoms to a bush- 
ful of average quality. Emphasis 
at present is on hardiness, be- 
cause, after all, Salisbury is sup- 
posed to be outside the camellia- 
growing belt by some miles and 
several degrees of temperature. 
The varieties in Mrs. Kluttz’s 
camellia landscape groupings at 
the sides of her home have come 
from California, Oregon, South 
Carolina, Georgia, Wilmington, 
N. C., Florida and Alabama. Her 
selections include, in addition to 
this big beauty Mrs. Walter 
and on some plants with no stamens’ Allan, and Monarch, ithe follow- 
ing others, all of which have com- 
mendable characteristics: Sep- 
inches, and some are as double as; tember Morn, Bessie MacArthur, 
others have the wide open semi- 
double form with the puff ball 
center of stamens as shown 
ebove. No matter how variable, 
this is a breath-takingly beautiful 
camellia. 
Mrs. Kluttz has been raising 
camellias outdcors for about five 


| Mrs. 
@/ those of Chandleri Elegans, while; Gen. George Patton, Mathotiana 
Alba, Eleanor Haygood, Daika- 
gura, Casa Blanca, Reticulata. 
Herme Sport No. 2, Kumasaka, 
Hearn’s Pink Dawn, Flesh Pink 
Peony, Monjusi Red, Emperor of 
Russia, Pink Glory, Regina des 
Giantes, Arajishi, Rosea Superba, 
K. Sawada, Spectabilis, 
years. Her first was Monarch, a | Empress, Red Daikagura, C. M. 
late double pink. At first she fan-| Hovey, California, Prince Charm- 
cied only the formal or imbricat-| ing, and two sasanquas, Snow on 
ed varieties like Pink Perfection,|the Mountain and the double 
Alba Plena and K. Sawada, but| pink Showa-no-sakae. 
while her collection has been (The above was taken from the 
growing, her taste has enlarged| January 18, 1950, issue of the 
also. Now she likes also the Salisbury (N. C.) Post.) 
