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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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 ‘Princess Alice’
A Moss rose. Paul describes the flowers as blush with pink centres, similar to ‘Maiden’s blush’, the buds very well mossed, growth vigorous. Rivers described it as a neat and pretty new blush Moss rose, its habit upright and very robust and vigorous. [Paul (1888, 1903), Rivers 1854].
Rosa ‘Princess Royal’
Moss rose with purple and crimson, mottled flowers, large, double and cupped, on a vigorous, very spiny shrub. According to Paul (1848) it makes a good standard or pillar. [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1903), FC p.42/1850].
Rosa ‘Princesse Adelaide’
Moss rose. Paul thought that it was probably a hybrid between a Moss and a hybrid Bourbon rose. Raised by Laffay. William Paul, describing a visit to Laffay’s Nursery in 1845 wrote: ‘He has also a Moss Rose, ‘Princesse Adelaide’, of a pale rose colour, blooming in corymbs, and said to be very handsome’. In The Rose Garden he describes it as a pale glossy rose, flowering in large clusters, individual flowers large and full, compact form, habit erect and growth vigorous, a hybrid, suitable for a sunny wall or pillar. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)].
Rosa ‘Princesse de Lamballe’
Alba rose. The flowers are pure white, sometimes delicately tinted with flesh. It was included in a list of recommended Damask, Alba, French and Hybrid Provins roses in The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1850, and in 1847 was recommended as a pot rose. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Gard. Chron. 1847, 1850].
Rosa ‘Queen Victoria’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers of ‘Queen Victoria’ are white, shaded with pink, very large and full, globular in shape, on a vigorous shrub. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854), Henry Curtis p.7 vol.2/1853].
Rosa ‘Red Moss’
The flowers of the ‘Red Moss Rose’ are semi-double, middle-sized and pale red or deep pink in colour. [Gore, Rivers (1854), Paul (1848, 1888)].
Rosa ‘Réveil’
Bourbon rose. The flowers are cherry-crimson in colour, large and full in form on a vigorous shrub. Paul considered it a fine hardy dark Bourbon rose. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857), Amat].
Rosa ‘River’s Musk’
A cultivar of Rosa moschata Mill. raised by Thomas Rivers from Italian seed is an abundantly blooming rose with small, fragrant flowers of a rosy buff colour. [Rivers (1854, 1857, (1863), Paul (1848, 1888, 1903)].
Rosa ‘Robin Hood’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Robin Hood’ has rosy carmine flowers, a graceful habit, and splendidly-shaped, globular, cupped blooms borne in clusters. [Paul (1848, 1863), Henry Curtis p.5 vol.2/1853].
Rosa ‘Rose De Meaux’
A Centifolia dwarf shrub. It has pink flowers, very small and full, form compact, almost scentless, growth habit erect on a dwarf shrub. [Gore, Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Willmot].
Rosa ‘Rose Delille’
A Provence rose. ‘Rose Delille’ has middle-sized to large, full flowers, light red or deep vivid pink in colour. [Gore].
Rosa ‘Rose du Roi’
Catherine Gore places it among her Portland roses and Rivers considers it to be a perpetual Damask rose, and casts doubt on its origin from the Portland rose. ‘Rose du Roi’ is a small shrub with bright red, highly-scented flowers, according to Gore often more vividly coloured later in the season. [Gore, Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1903), Amat].
Rosa ‘Rose Edouard’
Catherine Gore describes the ‘Isle de Bourbon rose’ as having long, divergent stems, very crooked thorns, and middle-sized, cup-shaped, semi-double or double flowers of a brilliant deep pink. The ‘Rose Edouard’ in my garden exactly corresponds to this description, with flowers of a rich, glowing pink, somewhat similar in colour to its ‘Parson’s Pink’ parent, but much brighter. It has an upright habit with very lax and thorny stems, flowers continuously from early spring to late autumn, with large flushes at these seasons, but somewhat prone to bud drop in damp weather. Mrs Gore doesn’t mention its beautiful perfume.
Rosa ‘Safrano’
A Tea rose ‘Safrano’ has particularly beautiful apricot-coloured buds, changing to pale buff on opening. The flowers are described as cupped, large and double in contemporary literature. In my garden the flowers very quickly become fully blown and untidy after opening, a phenomenon noted by Thomas Rivers: ‘The buds of this rose are of a deep fawn before expansion, and then very beautiful; but they soon fade on opening, and lose all their beauty.’ [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Henry Curtis p.15 vol.1/1850, Amat].
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