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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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 Smith's ‘Transparens’
Smith’s ‘Transparens’ was offered for sale by Smith’s of Hackney in The Gardener’s Chronicle [GC p.314/1843]. No description was given. I have found no other description.
Fuchsia Smith’s ‘Dalstonia’
Smith’s Fuchsia ‘Dalstonia’ was described in the Floricultural Cabinet, ‘New hybrid Fuchias – notices of new plants’, by Nathaniel Norman: ‘Sepals, tubular portion rose, divisions yellow and green, reflexed. Petals bright red. A very profuse bloomer.’ [FC p.213/1841].
Fuchsia Standish’s ‘Colossus’
Standish’s ‘Colossus’ has a crimson tube and sepals, hardly reflexed, and a ‘particularly fine purple corolla’. [MB p.32/1844].
Fuchsia Stokes’ ‘Duke of Wellington’
Probably Stokes’ ‘Duke of Wellington’: ‘Tube and sepals a rich crimson, corolla violet. Fine florist flower.’ [FC p.279/1854].
Fuchsia Storey’s ‘Devoniensis’
‘This is a fine variety of excellent habit, with a short scarlet tube, and sepals of fine texture; corolla beautiful light violet, and well formed. It is an abundant bloomer, and will be an acquisition to every collection.’ [Gard. Chron. 1851].
Fuchsia Storey’s ‘Multiplex’
‘Multiplex’, Storey, 1850. ‘Tube and sepals bright crimson, well reflexed. corolla deep-purple and very double, resembling a double violet.’ [FC p.267/1851].
Fuchsia Story’s ‘Queen Victoria’
Story’s ‘Queen Victoria’ had ‘splendid wide sepals, beautifully reflexed, of a bright scarlet crimson, and a lovely clear white corolla.’ Advertisement from Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son. [Gard. Chron. 1855].
Fuchsia Turville & Smith’s ‘Cleopatra’
‘Cleopatra’ […] ‘a good variety’ bred by Turville and Smith, was recommended by The Gardeners' Chronicle. [Gard. Chron. 1846]. It was a ‘light coloured’ fuchsia, which at that time usually meant that the tube and sepals were whitish and the corolla a shade of crimson.
Fuchsia Turville’s ‘One in the Ring’
Thomas Turville, Florist of Chelmsford, advertised the fuchsia ‘One of the Ring’ in The Gardeners Chronicle of 1847, describing it as ‘delicate white tube with good substance, sepals slightly tinged with green, corolla vermillion, forming a contrast at once decided and beautiful, habit free and foliage fine.’
Fuchsia Veitch’s ‘Dominiana’
A Fuchsia denticulata Ruiz & Pav. x Fuchsia macrostigma Benth. hybrid. It has a long scarlet-red tube and sepals, the latter green-tipped, and an orange corolla, slightly flared when fully open. To 1.5m. [RHSD].
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Frost tender succulent with lance-shaped leaves, to 2m long and tall spires, to 12m, of strongly scented white flowers in summer. The plant dies after flowering but produces numerous seeds which often germinate and produce sizeable plantlets on the scape. These readily root when they fall. The cultivar mediopicta (variegata) has creamy-white longitudinal lines on the leaves. [RHSE, Hortus].
Gaillardia aristata Pursh.
Fully hardy erect but often spreading perennial with yellow flowers, the ray florets sometimes tinged red at the base, and orange red discs, in summer. To 75cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Gaillardia pulchella Foug.
Fully hardy, upright, bushy annual with yellow, red, or red and yellow flowers in summer. To 45cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Gaillardia pulchella Foug. var. picta (D.Don) Voss
See Gaillardia pulchella Foug. for a general description of the species. The variety picta has larger flower heads in different shades and the plant is taller. [RHSD, Hortus].
Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. flore pleno major
See Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. flore pleno for details. Gardenia augusta is a very variable species, the variety major is very free flowering but with flowers smaller than florida flore pleno. [RHSD, Hortus].
