(C.japonica), Drouard-Gouillon Catalogue, 1839. No description. van Houtte

Catalogue, 1842, 9:54: Peony form, soft pink, spotted and streaked with vivid red. Berlèse,

1842, Annales de la Société d’Horticulture de Paris, 30(175):427-429: Peony form, white

flushed very pale pink, dotted and striped with crimson, 8-9.5 cm in diameter. Petals obovate,

4 cm x 3.5 cm wide, outer petals in 4-5 layers; centre petals smaller and mixed with stamens

and petaloids to give a raised centre. Leaves elliptic, 8 cm x 4.8 cm, shallowly serrate,

acuminate, mid-green. Habit upright and vigorous becoming spreading. This camellia was

raised by Drouard-Gouillon of Febraud Nursery, Nantes, France about 1840 and named for

his daughter. It was first released in a 3 page leaflet, prepared by Berlèse and headed: “1842.

Description d’un Nouveau Camellia, souscription ouverte pour le Camellia Marguerite

Gouillon. Here is a beautiful camellia variety obtained from seed by M. Drouard-Gouillon of

Nantes and flowered for the first time this year, 1842. The flower is 10 cm across, it is full,

rounded, almost regular rose form, with a delicate pink base, speckled and streaked vivid red.

The broad outer petals are in 6 fan-like rows, rounded, slightly indented, thin and transparent,

regularly imbricated and tints of dehcate pink with streaks spots and bands of red. The interior

has a variable number of upright, elongated petals of diverse form, some strap-like, others

oval, grouped in clusters and forming a united centre, detached from the circumference.”

Berlèse described it in the 3rd ed. of his Monographie, 1845 and Verschaffelt illustrated it in

his Nouvelle Iconographie, 1850, Book X, pl. III. In recent years it has become confused with

another, similar cultivar from the same area in General Lamoricière but they are considered

to be separate cultivars. Synonyms: ‘Madam Gouillon’, ‘Parini Nova’. In America Duc

d’Orleans has been a psuedonyn for Marguerite Gouillon. Sports: Marguerite Gouillon

Rose, ‘Stardust’. Orthographic variants and errors: ‘Marguerite Guillon’, ‘Margherite

Gouillon’, ‘Margherita Gouillon’, ‘Margurite Gouillon’, ‘Marguerite de Gouillon’,

‘Margeritta Guillon’, ‘Margaret Gullion’, ‘Marguerite Quillon’, ‘Marguerite Gruillon’, ‘Marte

Guillon’. See black and white photos: Fig. 46, RHS., 1961, The Rhododendron and Camellia

Yearbook, No.15; Hertrich, 1955, Camellias in the Huntington Gardens, vol.II, p.222.

Marguerite Gouillon Pink. SCCS., 1951, The Camellia. Its Culture and Nomenclature. Synonym

for Marguerite Gouillon Rose..