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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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 ‘Madame Hector Jacquin’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers are clear rose in colour, shaded with violet, very large and full, globular in shape. It produces a vigorous shrub. [Paul 1888].
Rosa ‘Madame Laffay’
Hybrid Perpetual rose. Paul describes the flowers of ‘Madame Laffay’ as large, bright crimson-rose in colour, and the Floricultural Cabinet as deep rich rose colour, superb form and showy. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), FC p.247/1847].
Rosa ‘Madame Masson’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘An immense rose with most regular petals, larger and more finely formed than ‘La Reine’, but of the most splendid crimson lilac colour’, according to The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1857. ‘Too much can hardly be said, its doubleness and deep purplish crimson colour must ensure it a place in every collection’, wrote a correspondent in 1860. [Paul (1863, 1888)].
Rosa ‘Madame Place’
Hybrid Perpetual. Rose coloured and a fine shape, but Paul considered the flower too small. [Paul 1863, FC p.228/1857].
Rosa ‘Madame Plantier’
Noisette rose, classified by William Paul as a Hybrid Noisette, but it is now often regarded as an Alba rose. ‘Madame Plantier’ has medium-sized, creamy white flowers, changing to pure white. An immense bloomer, it forms a large bush or tree. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1863)].
Rosa ‘Madame Stolz’
A Damask rose. Flowers a delicate flesh colour, changing to pale straw or white, cupped, glossy, large and full. A branching habit and vigorous grower. Rivers describes it as a pretty rose, with flowers of the palest lemon. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Madame Vidot’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Madame Vidot’ ‘made her debut [at the great rose show at St. Johns Hall, London, July 1860] in richest white, silvery satin, and in a manner not seen to be forgotten.’ Paul Ricault, writing in The Gardeners’ Chronicle of that year. In 1858 Ricault had listed this rose amongst his best six introductions of the season, describing it as ‘a kind of pink satin silvery blush colour, and otherwise in point of shape and size as perfect as the most fastidious could desire’. Elsewhere it was described as having ‘transparent flesh-coloured flowers, shaded with rose, large and full. Paul described it as ‘a model in form, beautiful in colour’. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1857, (1863)].
Rosa ‘Madame Villermoz’
A Tea rose. Its flowers are white, with fawn and salmon centres, cupped, large and full, on a vigorous shrub. [Paul (1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Henry Curtis p.21 vol.2/1853].
Rosa ‘Mademoiselle Alice Leroy’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Mademoiselle Alice Leroy’ has delicate, shaded rose-coloured flowers, large, cupped and full, borne in clusters, growth moderate. Paul considered it to a pretty and distinct rose. [Paul (1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers 1854].
Rosa ‘Marquess Boccalla’
Described as a Hybrid Perpetual in contemporary literature. Dickerson classifies it as a Damask Perpetual. ‘Marquess Boccalla’ has very pale, flesh-coloured flowers and a dwarf habit. It was recommended as a continuous bloomer in The Gardeners’ Chronicle. [Paul (1848, 1863), Gard. Chron. 1851].
Rosa ‘Mathurin Regnier’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Mathurin Regnier’ has rose coloured flowers, and Rivers wrote that it ‘is, if possible, more perfect in shape than [‘William Griffiths’], it is also better in colour.’ This is strong praise as he had previously written that ‘the latter is indeed the most perefectly shaped of any rose known.’ [Rivers (1857, 1863), GC Nov. 29th 1856].
Rosa ‘Moss Lanei’
A Moss rose described by Rivers as a fine globular and very double rose, with flowers very fragrant and of a rich rosy-crimson tinted with purple, its habit vigorous, more so than any other moss rose, a large bed making a fine effect. [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)].
Rosa ‘Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers are a delicate rosy blush, large and beautifully cupped, very fragrant. [FC p.61/1855].
Rosa ‘Mrs. Bosanquet’
Classified as a China rose by most contemporary authors and in Macarthur’s hand-written 1861 list it is classified as an Indica. Paul classifies it as a Bourbon rose. Growing to about 1m, it forms a neat but spindly shrub and has flesh-coloured to pink, very double, medium-sized flowers, somewhat prone to a green heart; pleasantly scented. It performs very well in my garden, although it tends much more towards the pink tones of its ‘flesh’ colouring. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Amat].
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