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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Passiflora vitifolia H.B. & K.
Vigorous climber with rusty-downy stems, cordate, 3-lobed, vine-like leaves and scarlet flowers. [Hortus].
Passiflora x buonapartea Baxt.
A Passiflora alata x P. quadrangularis hybrid with fragrant, red-crimson flowers with red, white and blue corona. [RHSD].
Passiflora x caerulea-racemosa Sabine
Frost-tender, variable, vigorous climber with slender stems, 3-5-lobed leaves, to 15cm long, and bowl-shaped, red-purple flowers, to 13cm wide, with spreading corona filaments, purple-black at the base, white above, in summer and autumn, followed by ovoid green fruit. To 6m or more. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Passiflora x loudoni Loud.
Frost-tender climber with purple flowers ‘much [of the] habit of [Passiflora kermesina], but the leaves are larger, and are not coloured with purple beneath, like P. kermesina. It also requires a warm stove and a very moist temperature.’ [MB p.153/1847].
Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Steud.
Fully hardy, fast-growing, broadly columnar tree with ovate, sometimes shallowly lobed leaves, to 30cm long, and upright panicles of fragrant, pinkish, trumpet-shaped lilac flowers, to 5cm long, marked purple and yellow inside, in spring. To 12m. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Pavonia coccinea Cav.
Frost-tender evergreen shrub with 3-lobed, heart-shaped leaves with serrated edges, and scarlet flowers, 5cm across. To 60cm. [Don].
Pedilanthus tithymaloides (L.) Poit.
Frost tender, upright, bushy, clump-forming, succulent shrub with zigzagged stems, evergreen or deciduous, elliptic leaves, often powdery beneath, and fleshy red bract-cups, to 1.5cm long, yellow green at the base, in summer. To 2m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Pelargonium ‘Bride of Abydos’
A Florists‘ Geranium. Rendle’s ‘Bride of Abydos’ was included in ‘a list of the most splendid seedling geraniums […] light pink, good spot, excellent form, and a fine trusser above the foliage. [FC p.57/1839]. It was still being offered for sale by Henry Walton, Florist, Burnley, in The Gardeners Chronicle of 1854. [Gard. Chron. 1854].
Pelargonium ‘Carlos’
A Florists' Geranium. A large, even flower, of good shape, dark top and rosy bottom petals and clean white centre. ‘A noble flower for exhibition.’ Bred by Mr. Hoyle of Regalia. [Gard. Chron. 1853]. ‘Carlos’ featured heavily in shows in 1858. [Gard. Chron. 1858].
Pelargonium ‘Golden Chain’
A golden variegated geranium, leaves marginated not zonate. It has a dwarf, spreading habit, its leaves flat, yellow, with green disk. The flowers are abundant, bright scarlet. It was given a First Class Certificate by the Horticultural Society in 1862. [Gard. Chron. 1862]. ‘Leaves large, with a broad rim of rich yellow, and having a lead-shaped green at the centre. The flowers are scarlet of excellent form. It is a charming variety.’ [FC p.146/1850].
Pelargonium cultivars
Florist’s Geranium: ‘A circle, without indentation; smooth at the edges, thick, rich texture; colours well defined; truss five pips or more, forming a large showy head of bloom; marking decided, the greater contrast the better.’ [FC p.9/1848].
Penstemon angustifolius Nutt. ex Pursh
Herbaceous perennial with linear to lance-shaped leaves and clusters of white, blue, lilac to pink flowers. To 30cm. [RHSD, Hortus]. The flowers in the accompanying illustration from Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet are bright red but seem to be otherwise accurately depicted.
Penstemon campanulatus Willd.
Frost hardy, upright, branching, semi-evergreen perennial with sharply toothed lance-shaped leaves, to 10cm long, and long spikes of bell-shaped, pink, dark purple or violet flowers, about 2.5cm long, in early summer. To 60cm. Pentstmon campanulatus is a parent of many garden hybrids. [RHSE, Hortus].
Penstemon campanulatus Willd. var. pulchellus (Lindl.) Voss
See Pentstemon campanulatus Willd. for details. The variety pulchellus has white-veined violet or lilac flowers and narrower leaves. To 60cm. [RHSE, BR f.1138/1828, as Penstemon pulchellus]. See also BM t.3884/1841.
Penstemon fruticosus (Pursh) Greene subsp. scouleri (Dougl. ex Lindl) Pennell & D.D.Keck
Hardy, shrubby perennial with lance-shaped leaves and rose-purple or lilac flowers. [RHSD, Hortus].
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