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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Atrorubens’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. I have found no reference to this azalea and no description.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Carminata’
Presumably a cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet but I have found no description of this azalea.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Cleopatra’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. This azalea is listed as good garden varieties by later editions of Paxton's Dictionary but without description. I have found no other description.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Coccineum’
Probably a cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet, it is a low, spreading shrub with large, late flowering, single, scarlet-red flowers. [Millais]. A. indica coccinea superba is listed as a good garden variety by later editions of Paxton's Dictionary, but indica coccinea is not included.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Colorans’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. I have found no reference to this azalea and no description.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Delicata’
Presumably a cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet but I have found no specific description of this azalea. It may be synonymous with Azalea delicata nova, described by Lemaire in Illustration Horticole. The flower illustrated is a long-tubed, single, pinkish lower segments and an apricot upper segment. [IH pl.75, fig.10/1855]. A number of azaleas are illustrated, apparently with a parentage involving ‘A. pontica, calendulacea, viscosa, sinensis etc.’
Rhododendron indicum ‘Duc de Brabant’
;A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet, Duc de Brabant’ has semi-double, rose-coloured flowers, with deep red spots towards the base of the petals. It was bred by C. van Loo. [IH p.182 vol. 4/1858]. Scarlet flowered and early flowering. Advertisement from Bainbridge & Hewison, Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Florists, York. [Gard. Chron. 1856].
Rhododendron indicum ‘Dunbarri’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. I have found no reference to this azalea and no description.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Edmondsii’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. I have found no reference to this azalea and no description.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Exquisita’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet, Azalea exquisita is ‘a pale pink with white margin and rich rose-coloured blotch and spots. It is a first-rate variety, and deserves to be in every collection. Plant five feet by four.’ [FC p.136/1848].
Rhododendron indicum ‘Fielderiana’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. Probably the plant listed as Azalea Fielderiana in Addenda to Paxton’s Dictionary [1849 edition] as a white flowered evergreen shrub, introduced in 1847. [PD].
Rhododendron indicum ‘Fimbriata’
Probably a cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. but I have no description at present.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Formosa’
Probably a cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. ‘This species [Rhododendron simsii Planch.] grows in all the temperate parts of China and in south Formosa. […] It delights in rocky places, preferably cliffs, thin, dry woods and thickets, blossoms profusely, and its wealth of red flowers makes it one of the most conspicuous of all shrubs. The habit is twiggy and much-branched with a maximum height of three metres, but averaging about half this height.’ [Wilson & Rehder p.46].
Rhododendron indicum ‘Georgiana’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. I have found no reference to this azalea and no description.
Rhododendron indicum ‘Gledstanesii’
A cultivar of Rhododendron indicum Sweet. ‘White, the centre having a tinge of green, and the flower has occasional streaks and spots of rosy-scarlet. A separate blossom from two and a half to three inches across. The plant was five feet high by four across, and was literally covered with flowers. It is a beautiful kind, and ought to be in every collection.’
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