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Polly Wakefield's Camellias Take Gold at Annual Camellia Show

Monday, 03 March 2008 00:00

On the otherwise raining and dreary weekend of March 1-2, the Massachusetts Camellia Society (MCS) held its annual show and competition at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain.  Erica Max, Landscape Supervisor at the Wakefield Charitable Trust, entered a number of Camellia blooms from Polly Wakefield's collection.  Polly loved her Camellia collection and tended to them for many years.  She had been an active member of the MCS and many of the members shared recollections of their interation with her and of visits to the estate during her lifetime.

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