print email comment close The Culture of Camellias: An Exhibition Chiefly from the Phelps Memorial Collection of Garden Books URL: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/nathist/camellia/camellia.html Description: This exhibition tells "how camellias were brought from the Far East in the early 1700s to Europe, and then to America, how they were identified and named, and...developed by 19th-century specialist growers. The exhibit includes some of the very earliest published depictions of the camellia, from as far back as 1702, as well as gorgeous handcolored copperplate engravings...." From the collections of the University of South Carolina Library. Author: Scott, Patrick Publisher: University of South Carolina Library of Congress Subject Headings: Botanical illustration Camellias LII Database Information: Record 5419 created by Martha Gifford on 02/28/2002 Last modification on 03/06/2002 Published: 02/28/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5419