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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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 ‘Général Castellane’
Hybrid Perpetual. In The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1855 it was described as a newer Hybrid Perpetual, with brilliant velvety crimson flowers, and a profuse late bloomer, not a very robust grower and of somewhat dwarf habit. Elsewhere it was described as somewhat after ‘Lord Raglan’ in type, very fine and perfect in all aspects. It was considered moderately resistant to mildew but required good soils to flourish. [Rivers 1857, Paul 1863, FC p.61/1855].
Rosa ‘General Changarnier’
Paul classified it as a Hybrid China rose. Its flowers are large and full, a purplish-red colour. [Paul (1848, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Général Druot’
Classified by Paul and Rivers as a Perpetual Moss, ‘Général Druot’ has purple, semi-double flowers, of bright crimson, and is a free and vigorous grower. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Henry Curtis p. 5 vol.2/1853].
Rosa ‘Général Jacqueminot’
A Hybrid China rose. The flowers of ‘Général Jacqueminot’ are large and full, of a compact form and shaded lake in colour. Rivers describes it as a fine, large, vigorous growing rose, well adapted for a pillar rose. [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Amat].
Rosa ‘Général Lamoriciére’
Classified by William Paul as a Hybrid China. It has bright lilac-pink flowers, beautiful in shape, frequently giving autumn blooms. Thomas Appleby of the Rose Mount Nursery, York, writing in The Gardeners’ Chronicle, and recommending this rose amongst his old favourites, the summer roses. [Gard. Chron. 1857].
Rosa ‘General Pellissier’
Hybrid Perpetual. Its flowers are a delicate rose, very large and full and globular in shape. It tends to be uncertain in production. [Paul 1863].
Rosa ‘General Simpson’
Hybrid Perpetual. In selecting General Simpson as one of his best six introductions of 1858 in an article in The Gardeners’ Chronicle, Paul Ricault described it as a sweet pinkish coloured variety, rather small but very neat, blooms abundantly in autumn and is quite faithful in the way of never changing colour. This journal described its flowers in 1856 as rosy-carmine flowers, with the form and habit of ‘Louise Odier’. [Rivers (1857), Paul (1863), Gard. Chron. (1856, 1858)].
Rosa ‘George Cuvier’
Bourbon rose. The flowers are rosy-cherry in colour, beautifully tinted with light purple, large, full and of compact form, on a moderate sized shrub. The Gardeners’ Chronicle described its flowers as bright cerise, shaded pink. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Gard. Chron. 1846, Amat].
Rosa ‘Gloire de Colmar’
Gallica rose. The flowers are a rich velvety crimson, form compact, described as one of the best show roses, and listed by Rivers among the finest crimsons in this group. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857)].
Rosa ‘Gloire de Dijon’
A Tea rose. According to William Paul ‘Gloire de Dijon stands unrivalled and alone’. Flowers yellow, faun and salmon, large, full and globular. Very hardy, it apparently withstood the very severe frosts of 1860-61 in England, when most other roses were killed. [Paul (1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Amat]. ‘In its foliage, habit and shape, and size of its flowers, it is almost an exact resemblance of the Bourbon Rose ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’, and, like that fine Rose, it requires dry warm weather to open its flowers to perfection. Its perfume is Tea-like and powerful, and in colour it is quite unique, being tinted with fawn, salmon and rose, and difficult to describe’. Thomas Rivers, in The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1854.
Rosa ‘Gloire des Mousseux’
Damask Moss rose. An upright rose with carmine red flowers with a salmon pink centre. Although mainly summer flowering, it will occasionally produce autumn blooms. To 1.3m. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1857, 1863), Amat].
Rosa ‘Great Western’
Hybrid Bourbon rose. ‘Great Western’ has crimson-scarlet flowers marbled with violet-purple, varying considerably, sometimes brilliant sometimes dark and beautiful. The flowers are produced in great clusters, very large, globular and double. Paul considered it to be an extraordinary rose, forming an immense tree and producing a splendid effect when in flower. Raised by Laffay from ‘Celine’. [Paul (1848, 1863), Gard. Chron. p.356/1843].
Rosa ‘Harrisonii’
‘Harrisonii’ is a shrubby, spring flowering rose, very fragrant, bearing its cupped, semi-double yellow flowers on a neat, upright bush, more robust than ‘William’s Yellow’. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Hébé’
A Hybrid Provence rose. ‘Hébé’ has flesh-coloured, large and full and cupped flowers, its habit erect on a moderate shrub. [Paul 1848, FC p.42/1850].
Rosa ‘Helen Paul’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Helen Paul’, a seedling of ‘Victor Verdier’, is a pure white rose, sometimes shaded pink, large, full and globular in form. [Paul 1888].
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