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Stamen-Featured Camellia 
Excites Local Attention 
This camellia flower bloomed 
on a bush that came last week io 
Mrs. Earle Kluttz, 520 South Ful- 
ton Street, from the originator, 
Walter Allan Nurseries, Summer- 
ville, S. C. It is named Mrs. 
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 
sight, a plant of fine slender up- 
right stems, rich foliage, and 
many fully opened rose red 
blooms with prominent and nu- 
merous yellow stamens, the lat- 
ter so vivid as to resemble a 
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 ovlants 
weeks later. Longest lasting 
flower I have ever seen or heard 
of. Blooms from early January j also. Now she _ likes 
NEW CAMELLIA 
M&S. WALTER ALLAN 
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- 
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 
Kluitz | 
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 
Allan, and Monarch, ithe follow- 
for his wife, first bloomed in 
1940, when it was five or six years 
old. It came from seeds prob-bly 
ef Donckelaari. On the original 
iplant the flowers varied from 
‘eight petals to 12 or 13. Some had 
petaloids. From grafting it now 
-has blooms of full double form 
on some plants with no stamens 
,showing among the  peia’oids.| ing others, all of which have com- 
Flowers have averaged over five'mendable characteristics: Sep- 
inches, and some are as double as'| tember Morn, Bessie MacArthur, 
those of Chandleri Elegans, while| Gen. George Patton, Mathotiana 
others have the wide open semi-| Alba, Eleanor Haygood, Daika- 
double form with the puff ball|gura, Casa Blanca, Reticulata. 
center of stamens as shown|Herme Sport No. 2, Kumasaka, 
above. No matter how variable,| Hearn’s Pink Dawn, Flesh Pink 
this is a breath-takingly beautiful| Peony, Monjusi Red. Emperor of 
camellia. Russia, Pink Glory, Regina des 
Mrs. Kluttz has been raising! Giantes, Arajishi, Rosea Superba, 
camellias outdoors for about five, Mrs. 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 the} Salisbury (N. C.) Post.) 
