Plants in the Hortus
Many of the plants described here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861. A large number of additional plants were identified from correspondence, gardening notebooks and other documents surviving in the archives. The Hortus attempts to describe all the plants grown in the gardens at Camden Park and those grown in horticultural enterprises such as orchards and vineyards and includes plants grown outside the gardens in the park-like environs of the Camden Park estate. The Hortus plants served a wide range of purposes in the 19th century household; as ornament, living fences, fibre, dyestuffs, medicines, food and drink from the garden, orchard and vineyard and many others.
Fuchsia ‘Chandleri’
A hybrid between F. fulgens and probably F. globosa, ‘Chandlerii’ is figured in the Floricultural Cabinet with crimson tube and sepals, the latter tipped with green, and a deep purple, almost blue corolla.
Fuchsia ‘Conspicua Arborea’
Fuchsia conspicua arborea was listed among the best varieties, without description, in the British Florist. [BF p.227/1842].
Fuchsia ‘Corallina’
A strong, robust shrub with large, deep green leaves, crimson-scarlet tube and sepals and dark purple corolla. [RHSD, Hilliers'].
Fuchsia ‘Delicata’
Probably Newberry’s ‘Delicata’, which was ‘warranted the best white Fuchsia ever grown; with every good quality of Venus Victrix, from 3-4 times its size. Tube pure white without forcing; corolla, fine purple; sepals well expanded, and its habit good’. Advertisement from the Upway Nursery, Dorchester. [Gard. Chron. 1846].
Fuchsia ‘Don Giovanni’
‘Dark variety; shown at the Vauxhall Gardens show. [Gard. Chron. 1851]. ‘Flowers very large, tube and sepals crimson, corolla purple-violet. A noble variety.’ Seen growing at Kew. [FC p.225/1852].
Fuchsia ‘Dr Jephson’
‘Sepals of a clear snowy white, corolla a rich deep rose, habit of Willmoreana, and a profuse bloomer.’ [GC p.281/1846].
Fuchsia ‘Epsii’
In a report of Vauxhall Gardens show it was recorded as a ‘dark variety’. At this time this usually meant a single flower with crimson tube and sepals and purple corolla. [Gard. Chron. 1851].
