The Board of the VIRGINIA CAMELLIA SOCIETY encourages those of you who are not yet members of the AMERICAN CAMELLIA SOCIETY to join. The Virginia Camellia Society is offering a special promotion to pay part of ACS membership dues for those joining now. Just fill out the ACS application form, enclose your check for $20, payable to VCS, and send it to our treasurer, Phil Johnson, P. O. Box 1285, Chesapeake, Va. 23327-1285. VCS will add the $5.00 single, or $7.50 joint for you, and send it to ACS. This is the easy way to be part of our member-get-a-member campaign for ACS. Give a membership to a friend or neighbor. Then they’ll also receive a camellia air-layer as a bonus for joining! Questions? Call Carol Lee Sutherland, 489-9586, or Sally Simon, 625-0374.

Your membership will bring you an 18 page booklet Camellia Culture for Beginners, an annual yearbook, four issues of The Camellia Journal published in February, May, August and November. These publications are excellent sources of information about the growth and propagation of camellias. Your membership is also the exclusive source of many publications about camellias that are not available elsewhere such as the current CAMELLIA NOMENCLATURE, and the Historical Supplement to the Nomenclature which has descriptive lists of varieties of various species and hybrids generally grown in the English-speaking world, particularly the U.S. As a member you also have free admission to the headquarters of the American Camellia Society at Massee Lane, Fort Valley, Georgia. The gardens there are lovely and, the Edward Marshall Boehm porcelain collection is breathtaking in addition to many other donated heirlooms exhibited in the Annabelle Lundy Fetterman Educational Museum Building.

The American Camellia Society’s web address is: www.camellias-acs.com