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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Rosa ‘Duchess of Sutherland’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Duchess of Sutherland’ has deep pink flowers, highly fragrant and with a red edge, although this is not obvious in the plant in my garden. It was recommended as a pot rose. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Henry Curtis p.3 vol.1/1850, Gard. Chron. (1847, 1856)].
Rosa ‘Duchesse d’Orleans’
Hybrid Perpetual, with rosy blush flowers, tinged with lilac, fine bold flower, good form, very large, was described in the Floricultural Cabinet. [Rivers (1857, 1863), FC p.61/1855, FC p.228/1857].
Rosa ‘Duchesse de Cambacéres’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers are described as rosy carmine, or lilac-rose colour, often purplish, the edges of the petals lighter, cupped, large and full on a lax bush of vigorous growth. [Paul 1888, Amat].
Rosa ‘Duchesse de Montpensier’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers are a delicate, satiny, glossy pink, edged with blush, of exquisite shape and very fragrant. Rivers considered it to be an excellent rose but Paul thought it second rate. Curtis was effusive in his praise: ‘We cannot perhaps convey to our readers so good an impression of this decidely beautiful rose by any description, as by calling it a blush Madame Laffay, with improved figure, greater pefume and better habit.’ [Henry Curtis p.29 vol.1/1850, Rivers (1854, 1857), Paul (1848, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Dupetit Thouars’
A Bourbon rose. Brilliant crimson flowers, sometimes shaded a little purplish, large and full, form compact, growth vigorous. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), FC p.252/1850].
Rosa ‘Eclatante’
A Moss rose. The flowers are a deep even pink, large and double, well mossed, the form expanded, on a vigorous shrub with large foliage. It forms a good standard.
Rosa ‘Empress Eugenie’
Bourbon rose. Rosy blush in colour with a purple edge to the petals, cupped, large and full in colour. Of vigorous growth it is a good, hardy rose. [Paul ].
Rosa ‘Enfant de Mont Carmel’
Hybrid Perpetual. Paul describes the flowers as crimson, large and full, growth vigorous. According to Thomas Rivers, writing in The Gardeners’ Chronicle, this rose does not always open well. [Paul 1863, Gard. Chron. 1857].
Rosa ‘Etna’
A Moss rose. ‘Etna’ was described by William Paul as a brilliant scarlet Moss rose with a purplish tinge, large and very double. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)].
Rosa ‘Fortune's double yellow’
Usually classified as a Tea rose, ‘Fortune's Double Yellow’ is a very free-flowering, small climber or pillar rose, very prickly, with medium-sized, loosely double flowers which can vary from primrose yellow to apple-blossom pink on the same plant. A beautiful rose, in my garden its flowers tend more towards pink.
Rosa ‘Fortuneana’
‘Fortuneana’ is a rampant climber with scented, double white flowers, as large as those of Aimeé Vibert.. [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1888, 1903), Amat].
Rosa ‘French Crimson’
A Moss rose. ‘French Crimson’ has rosy-crimson, medium-sized, full and expanded flowers on a moderate, branching bush covered in red spines.
Rosa ‘Fulgens’
Gore describes its flowers as middle-sized, full, regular, very numerous, of a vivid crimson. Paul describes the flowers as vermilion red and semi-double, its habit sprawling, growing to about 1.5m. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Amat].
Rosa ‘Géant des Batailles’
Usually classified by contemporary authors such as Rivers as a Hybrid Perpetual, it is a parent of the very distinctive race of Hybrid Perpetual roses bred by Vibert. In 1888 William Paul classified ‘Géant des Batailles’ in a sub-group of Rosa indica which resemble ‘Gloire de Rosamane’, a Bourbon rose, and it is usually today classified as such. In 1903 Paul classified it as a Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Géant des Batailles’ has very large, double crimson flowers, shaded purple, expanded, on a shrub of vigorous growth, and was regarded by Rivers as the most bright and brilliant of all roses, and at the same time the most hardy and free-growing of all. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Henry Curtis p. 7 vol.1/1850, Amat].
Rosa ‘General Brea’
Hybrid perpetual. It has bright rose-crimson flowers, globular, large and full and of good form, growth dwarf. [Paul 1863, FC p.61/1855].
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