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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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 ‘Leopold d’Orléans’
Paul considers it to be identical to ‘Adelaide d’Orléans’ but Gore lists it separately, with pure white flowers. Its flowers are white-shaded rose in colour. As I have found no other reference to this rose it may well be ‘Leopoldine d’Orléans’, also called ‘Adelaide d’Orléans’, a very popular climbing rose of the day, classified by Gore and others as a Sempervirens rose. She describes it as a vigorous shrub, with numerous, middle-sized, double, pale pink or flesh-coloured flowers.
Rosa ‘Liesis’
Noisette rose. Its flowers are pale yellow with deeper centres, large and full, form cupped, very hardy and, according to William Paul, writing in The Gardeners’ Chronicle, useful for a weeper, wall or greenhouse. He considered it one of the best roses. Rivers described it as a bright yellow Noisette Rose quite worthy of culture. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1863), Gard. Chron. p.461/1863].
Rosa ‘Lion des Combats’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers of ‘Lion des Combats’ are reddish-violet in colour, sometimes shaded crimson-scarlet, velvety, large and full in form. It is a robust grower. Thomas Rivers considered the flowers to be not finely shaped. [Paul (1863, 1888), FC p.228/1857, Gard. Chron. (1856, 1857), Rivers 1854].
Rosa ‘Lord Palmerston’
Classified by Paul as a Bourbon Perpetual. ‘Lord Palmerston’ has medium-sized, cherry red flowers, cupped in shape on a moderate-sized shrub. Paul describes it as a very sweet and distinct, free-flowering rose. He reports that it was illustrated in the Rose Annual of 1858-9. [Paul (1863, 1888), FS p.100 vol.15/1864)].
Rosa ‘Lord Raglan’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Lord Raglan’ has large and full, velvety, scarlet-crimson flowers, edged with violet-crimson. A vigorous grower, its flowers were described as somewhat small, but brilliant and so free that it has 6 or 8 flowers on a truss. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Louis Philippe’
Categorised as a Tea-scented China rose by some authors, although included by Paul among the Crimson China roses in the early editions of The Rose Garden, and in Les Plus Belles Roses au début du XXe Siécle. It has very large flowers, full and globular in form, with dark crimson petals and almost white edges. [Paul (1848, 1888, 1903), FC p.243 and p.248/1835, FC p.271/1836, FC p.233/1848, Amat].
Rosa ‘Louise Odier’
Classified as a Hybrid Bourbon or Bourbon Perpetual by Paul and a Bourbon by Rivers. ‘Louise Odier’ is a hardy rose with very double, almost camellia-like, bright rosy-peach coloured flowers, borne in clusters. A good pot rose and recommended as a late-flowering rose. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Gard. Chron. 1858, Amat].
Rosa ‘Louise Peyronny’
Hybrid Perpetual. Silvery-rose, satin-like petals, shaded with lilac, globular, large and full in form. A robust grower. [Paul (1863, 1888), Henry Curtis p.19 vol.2/1853, FC p.61/1855].
Rosa ‘Luxemburg’
Moss rose. Described by Paul as a Hybrid Moss with flowers of deep crimson, shaded purple, double and medium sized with an expanded form; a vigorous grower suitable for a short pillar or as a standard. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Madame Audot’
Alba rose. A glossy flesh colour, the edges of the petals creamy blush, large and full, cupped. It produces a vigorous bush of branching habit. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Madame Bois’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Madame Bois’ was described by Paul as a fine light rose colour, in the way of ‘Victor Verdier’. [Paul 1903].
Rosa ‘Madame Deprez’
A Bourbon rose, ‘Madame Desprez’ has large clusters of flowers, rose coloured, shaded lilac, large and full, cupped in shape on a vigorous bush. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)]. Graham S. Thomas considered the colour to be more purple than rose-lilac: ‘In 1831 the Bourbon Noisette Mme Desprez appeared, adding purple to the rose colour.’
Rosa ‘Madame Desgaches’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers are rose-coloured, of medium size, full and globular, its habit branching on a dwarf shrub. Paul considered it to be a good rose: ‘This rose is of exquisite form; the petals too, are closely and beautifully disposed.’ [Paul 1848].
Rosa ‘Madame Domage’
Hybrid Perpetual. Paul described ‘Madame Domage’ as very large and double flowers of a bright rose colour on a vigorous shrub. [Paul (1863, 1888)].
Rosa ‘Madame Hardy’
Damask rose. It has nodding, fragrant, pure white flowers, occasionally pink-tinged, and a lax habit. Its full, quartered flowers suggest that it may be a Centifolia hybrid, and Les Plus Belles Roses au début du XXe Siécle suggests that it is a hybrid of Rosa clinophylla. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Amat].
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