Hardy camellias reward the gardener with striking and profuse blooms when the rest of the garden sleeps. This encyclopedia is the definitive guide to these beautiful and varied flowering plants.

Camellias are among the most sophisticated of flowering shrubs, producing an abundant display of elegant flowers during winter and spring. They can be grown singly in containers, in mixed borders, in woodland settings, trained as a hedge or along house walls. This beautifully illustrated handbook explores the history of camellias and provides a directory of over 40 different varieties. It explains how to grow camellias to their best advantage in the garden and in containers, and how to prune, train and propagate them. Whether you have a handkerchief-size plot or a large country garden, you are sure to find a place for these versatile shrubs.

This highly illustrated, practical guide offers comprehensive information on the important species of the genus Camellia, as well as the numerous cultivars raised around the world.

This book about Koson is the first Western publication of his oeuvre of prints and paintings. It provides all known information on the artist's life and work, his teachers and publishers, facsimiles of his signatures and seals and illustrations of an estimated seventy-five percent of his total print output. First published in 2001, this new edition features an additional chapter on Koson's oeuvre and designs which have been discovered since the original publication of Crows, Cranes and Camellias. This title is the definitive reference book for Koson collectors. The 1st edition with ISBN 9789074822381 is now out of stock.

This riveting biography brilliantly explores the short, intense, and passionate life of the country girl from Normandy, who at thirteen fled her brute of a father to go to Paris. Almost overnight she became one of the most admired courtesans of the 1840s—the inspiration for Alexandre Dumas fils’ The Lady of the Camellias and Verdi’s La Traviata. With her aristocratic ways, elegant clothes and signature camellias, Marie was always a subject of fascination at the opera and the boulevard cafés. Her death at twenty-three from tuberculosis created such an outpouring of sympathy in the press that Charles Dickens, who was in Paris at the time, was amazed. “Everything is erased in the face of an incident which is far more important,” he wrote, “the romantic death of one of the glories of the demi-monde, the beautiful, the famous Marie Duplessis.”