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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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 ‘Napoleon’
Gallica rose. Deep rose coloured flowers, shaded purple, large and double. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Narcisse’
Tea rose. William Paul considered that ‘Narcisse’ ‘deserves universal cultivation; the flowers are yellow with creamy edges, perfectly circular and full, reminding one of a transverse section of a hard-boiled egg’. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)]. Rivers described it as a very pretty pale yellow rose. It produces a hardy and free growing bush. [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Noisette Lutea’
Probably a Rosa noisettiana Redouté cultivar. For a basic description of thr early Noisette roses see Rosa ‘Noisette Pulchella’. ‘Noisette Lutea’ presumably had yellow flowers.
Rosa ‘Noisette Pulchella’
Probably a cultivar of Rosa noisettiana Redouté. Catherine Gore lists ‘Purple Noisette’ synonyms ‘Red Noisette’ and ‘Noisette with small Pink Flowers’ in her section of Noisette roses with pink or flesh-coloured flowers. She describes it as having arching shoots and small, very double, light pink flowers with narrow petals, which is a reasonable description of ‘Blush Noisette’, one of the few surviving early Noisette roses, but which is also a reasonable general description of the group.
Rosa ‘Noisette Purpurea’
Probably a cultivar of Rosa noisettiana Redouté. For a basic description of the early Noisette roses see Rosa ‘Noisette Pulchella’. ‘Noisette Purpurea’ had red flowers.
Rosa ‘Odorata Lutea Simplex’
I have been unable to fully identify this rose. Possibly a single form of an early Tea rose, derived from Rosa chinensis Jacq. var. odorata.
Rosa ‘Oeillet Parfait’
Gallica rose. Thomas Rivers says of ‘Oeillet Parfait’: ‘A rose raised in the West of France, and given out to the world before its qualities were appreciated. It is hybrid between the Damask and the French rose, so exactly like a carnation in its beautifully striped flowers as scarcely to be distinguished from one: its ground colour is pale blush, striped distinctly with dark red and crimson: no other variegated rose approaches it in beauty.’ Paul describes the flowers as medium-sized, double and cupped, pure white, distinctly striped with rosy crimson, the latter shaded with purple, ‘beautiful, like a scarlet bizarre carnation.’. It forms an erect, short-growing bush. [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Amat].
Rosa ‘Ohl’
Classified as a Gallica rose by Paul and included among the Gallica & Provins roses by Macarthur. The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1852, however, considered it ‘one of the finest roses in this [Hybrid China] group’, and in 1850, included it in a list of recommended Damask, Alba, French and Hybrid Provins roses. It produces a medium size, vigorous bush with large, very fragrant, fully double flowers, with deep crimson petals in the centre, and violet petals around the outside. To 1.2m. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1857, 1863), Gard. Chron. (1850, 1852)].
Rosa ‘Paul Ricault’
Classified by Graham S. Thomas as a Provence rose but with ‘signs of hybridity.’ Most Australian nurseries consider it to be a Hybrid Perpetual although it scarcely warrants this appellation as it is summer-flowering only. Paul described it variously as a Hybrid Bourbon and Hybrid China and Rivers as a Hybrid Bourbon. Paul Ricault was a prominent rose fancier from Falkirk in Scotland and regular writer on the subject of roses in the pages of the The Gardeners’ Chronicle and elsewhere. ‘Paul Ricault’ has large, very double crimson-pink or bright carmine flowers. According to The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1857 ‘a most hardy rose for size, shape, colour, very lasting and beautiful in a pot or exhibition’. [Paul (1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Perditta’
A cluster-flowered Hybrid China bred by John Bidwill at Camden Park. Macarthur referred to it as a ‘new hybrid, very fragrant’ in the letter to John Bailey.
Rosa ‘Perle des Panachées’
Gallica rose. ‘Perle des Panachées’ has rose-purple and white striped flowers, the markings very clear and distinct, of medium size, full and expanded form. It forms a moderately growing bush of erect habit. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Amat].
Rosa ‘Prince Albert’
Bourbon rose, actually a cross between ‘Gloire de Romenè’, a Bourbon, and a Damask China. It produces clusters of scarlet-crimson flowers, medium size, very double, of compact form. A shrub of moderate growth with short, stiff shoots, useful as a bedding rose. By all contemporary accounts a beautiful rose. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), FC p.305/1856, BF pl.15/1841].
Rosa ‘Prince Imperial’
Hybrid Perpetual. Its flowers are rosy carmine, very large, globular and full, growth moderate. [Paul 1863].
Rosa ‘Prince Leon’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Prince Leon’ has very double bright crimson flowers, on a shrub of moderate growth but vigorous habit. It was considered a good show rose. It was described in The Gardeners’ Chronicle as a ‘ most magnificent rose, somewhat after the style of ‘Madame Masson’ and ‘Lord Raglan’’. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Gard. Chron. 1857), FC p.229/1857].
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