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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Mandevilla laxa (Ruiz. & Pav.) Woodson
Frost-tender, vigorous, freely branching, woody-stemmed, twining climber with pointed oblong leaves, to 10cm long, and racemes of 5-15 tubular, strongly fragrant, white flowers, to 9cm across, in summer and autumn. To 5m. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Mandevilla longiflora (Desf.) Pichon
Frost-tender evergreen climber with white flowers in summer. To 2m.
Mandevilla splendens (Hook.) Woodson
Tender, tuberous rooted herbaceous climber with broad leaves and white flowers, suffused with pink. There are a number of garden forms with more brightly coloured flowers. [RHSD, Hortus].
Manettia cordifolia Mart. var. glabra
Frost tender, vigorous climber with lance-shaped leaves, to 8cm long, and tubular, brilliant red to deep orange flowers, to 5cm long, sometimes yellow-flushed at the lobes, borne singly or in leafy panicles from late winter to summer. To 4m. In the variety glabra the segments of the calyx are narrower than in the type. [RHSE, Hortus, Don].
Maranta species unidentified
A genus of about 20 evergreen, rhizomatous perennials from Central and South American rainforests. In temperate climes they they are mainly grown for their highly decorative leaves as pot specimens.
Martynia fragrans Lindl.
Tender annual with broad leaves, usually five-lobed, and racemes of fragrant deep purplish-crimson flowers. To 60cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Matthiola incana ‘Autumnal Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. Probably a form of Ten-week stock, flowering late in the year from spring sown seed. Today there are several forms, dwarf, bushy and tall. Robinson classifies these as Intermediate stocks and gives their origin as Mattthiola sinuata. [Robinson - The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds 10th Edition, p.680/1907].
Matthiola incana ‘Branching Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. Johnsons' Dictionary gives the common name of Branching Stock to Matthiola incana alba.
Matthiola incana ‘Brompton Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. Queen or Brompton Stocks are typically double-flowered biennials in shades of red, pink, purple and white. Usually summer sown they flower in late winter or early spring.
Matthiola incana ‘Dwarf Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. The species is a biennial sub-shrub with a woody base, sometimes branched, with lance-shaped leaves and usually purple flowers. Garden stocks are mostly derived from this species and have been available in a range of colours, white, pink and red through to purple, and with single and double flowers, since at least early Victorian times. Macarthur’s ‘Stock-dwarf’ probably corresponds to the modern summer flowering Ten-week dwarf stocks.
Matthiola incana ‘Prussian Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. ‘The German growers have a formidable list of kinds [of Ten-week Stock], many of which are more curious than showy. There are, however, sufficient good colours among them, such as crimson, rose, purple, violet, and white, to yield distinct hues.’ [Robinson - The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds 10th Edition, p.680/1907].
Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. var. graeca
See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. Summer flowering with white flowers. [JD]. ‘There is a very distinct type [of Stock] known as Wallflower-leaved, which was introduced many years ago from the Grecian Archipelago, and which has shining deep-green leaves, not unlike a Wallflower.’ [Robinson - The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds 10th Edition, p.680/1907].
Maurandya barclaiana Lindl.
Half hardy, erect, free-flowering climber with tubular flowers in shades of pink and purple with white and green tints, in summer and autumn. Most early depictions of the plant show the flowers as a vibrant purple. To 5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Maxillaria species unidentified [1]
Maxillaria is a genus of about 250, evergreen, rhizomatous, epiphytic or terrestrial orchids from tropical and sub-tropical Central and South America, the flowers, ranging from white to dark red or yellow in colour, appear throughout the summer. It is possible that the two plants isted in the catalogues as ‘Maxillaria species’ belong to a related genus, such as Bifrenaria or Lycaste.
Maxillaria species unidentified [2]
An unidentified species. See Maxillaria species unidentified [1] for discussion.
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