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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Nerium oleander ‘Lacteum’
A cultivar of Nerium oleander L. with white, single flowers. See Nerium oleander ‘Albo Pleno’ for more information on this plant.
Nerium oleander ‘Lutescens’
A cultivar of Nerium oleander L. Camden Park bred. William Macarthur described lutescens as ‘a new pale yellow sort raised by us from seed and very pretty.’ See Nerium oleander ‘Albo Pleno’ for more information on this plant.
Nerium oleander ‘Purpurascens’
A cultivar of Nerium oleander L. Camden Park bred. ‘Purpurascens is a fine showy variety of bright rose colour raised by us from seed.’ William Macarthur. See Nerium oleander ‘Albo pleno’ for more information on this plant.
Nerium oleander ‘Spectabile’
Presumably a cultivar of Nerium oleander L. I have found no specific description of this variety but it was presumably ‘spectabilis’, somewhat remarkable in appearance. See Nerium oleander ‘Albo Pleno’ for more information on this plant.
Nerium oleander ‘Splendens Grandiflorum’
A cultivar of Nerium oleander L. Described by Macarthur as a very bright pink or blush, and presumably with a larger flower. See Nerium oleander ‘Albo Pleno’ for more information on this plant.
Nerium oleander ‘Splendens Versicolor’
A cultivar of Nerium oleander L. See Nerium oleander ‘Albo Pleno’ for more information on the species.
I haven’t found a specific description of this variety but it is probably similar to the variety ‘Tanglé’ figured in Paxton’s Magazine of Botany: ‘Flowers of a rich, crimsony sanguine hue, beautifully and various[ly] striped with white and pink like a Carnation, semi-double.’ [MB p.54/1844]. See Nerium oleander ‘Tanglé’.
Nerium oleander ‘Splendens’
A cultivar of Nerium oleander L. its flowers are large, showy, double and bright red. [Hortus, JD, Don]. See Nerium oleander ‘Albo Pleno’ for more information on this plant.
Nerium oleander ‘Striato Pleno’
I have found no specific description of this variety but it was presumably double, the flowers striated in contrasting colours. See Nerium oleander ‘Albo Pleno’ for more information on this plant.
Nerium oleander ‘Tanglé’
A cultivar of Nerium oleander L.. See Nerium oleander ‘Albo Pleno’ for more information on this species.
‘Flowers of a rich, crimsony sanguine hue, beautifully and various[ly] striped with white and pink like a Carnation, semi-double.’ [MB p.54/1844].
Nerium oleander L. var. albo simplex
A cultivar of Nerium oleander L. The species is a fully hardy, tall, erect to spreading shrub or small tree with lance-shaped leaves, to 20cm long, bearing numerous cymes of up to 80 pink, red or white flowers, to 5cm across, in summer. To 6m. The cultivar ‘Albo Simplex’ is a single white form. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Nicotiana glauca Grah.
Half hardy, fast-growing, semi-evergreen shrub with long, arching shoots, ovate, fleshy, blue-grey leaves, and tubular, bright yellow flowers, to 4cm long. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus, FNSW].
Nigella damascena L.
Fully hardy, readily self-seeding annual with finely divided bright green foliage, bearing pale blue flowers surrounded by a ruff of foliage in early spring to summer. [RHSE, Hortus].
Nigella damascena L. var. romana
See Nigella damascena L. for a description of the species. I have no specific description of romana but Jane Loudon, quoted here, suggests that it is merely a synonym of damascena.
Niphaea oblonga Lindl.
Frost-tender perennial with few, ovate leaves, to 7cm, and slender axillary stems, to 15cm, bearing two to several white flowers in winter. [RHSD].
Nivenia corymbosa Bak.
Fibrous root stock, linear leaves on long, branched stems and sweetly-scented blue and yellow flowers on a much-branched, many-flowered inflorescence. [RHSD, Grey].
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