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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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 ‘Smith's Yellow’
Tea rose, often classified as a Noisette. A beautiful double yellow rose it was described as ‘a hybrid production, from the Noisette rose (‘Blush Noisette’), fertilized with the pollen of the yellow China Rose (‘Parke's Yellow China’). It resembles the former in many respects, but is of much more vigorous growth, and the flowers much more copious, of a deeper yellow, and disposed, like the Noisette Rose, in corymbs.’ [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)].
Rosa ‘Solfaterre’
Usually classified as a Noisette, but included among the Indicas (Chinas) in Macarthur’s hand-written 1861 list. ‘Solfaterre’ has bright straw-coloured flowers with a deeper sulphur centre, rather tender. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Henry Curtis p.1 vol.2/1853, Amat].
Rosa ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’
Bourbon rose, described by William Paul one of the best roses yet raised and by Thomas Rivers as the finest of all delicate-coloured roses. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857), Henry Curtis p. 17 vol.2/1853, Amat]. Flowers delicate flesh, margins almost white, excellent for massing. It was recommended as a late-flowering rose in The Gardeners’ Chronicle. [Gard. Chron. 1858]. A climbing form is more commonly grown today.
Rosa ‘Souvenir de la Reine d’Angleterre’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers of ‘Souvenir de la Reine d’Angleterre’ are bright glossy rose in colour, cupped, very large and full in form, the petals of great substance. A fine hardy rose and vigorous grower. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers 1863, Amat].
Rosa ‘Souvenir de la Reine des Belges’
Hybrid Perpetual. According to the Floricultural Cabinet the flowers are a brilliant carmine. Other writers describe the flowers as rose-coloured. [Paul (1848, 1863), FC p.61/1855].
Rosa ‘Striped Unique’
Centifolia rose. The flowers of ‘Striped Unique’ were described by Catherine Gore as middle-sized and full, white, striped and veined inside with bright pink.
Rosa ‘Sydonie’
In 1848 Paul described the flowers of ‘Sidonie’ as salmon-rose in colour, large and full, superb. It produces a vigorous, upright bush. In 1863 he described the flowers of ‘Sydonie’, a Hybrid Perpetual rose, as pink, large and full. I have little doubt that this is the same rose.
Rosa ‘Tricolor de Flandre’
A Gallica rose. Scented, almost fully double, pink flowers with purple stripes. With upright habit and growing to 90cm, it makes a good pot specimen. [Paul (1848, 1863), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Amat].
Rosa ‘Triomphe d’Avranches’
Hybrid perpetual. ‘Triomphe d’Avranches’ has bright red, very large, globular and full flowers, on a dwarf shrub. It was among the handful of roses, among 70 or 80 new imported varieties that bloomed well at Paul’s Nursery in 1856. [Paul 1863, GC p.788/1856].
Rosa ‘Unique de Provence’
Moss rose. Thomas Rivers wrote of this rose: ‘We have now also what was at one time thought to be impossible, viz., the Old Rose Unique mossed; this is called Moss Unique de Provence. I cannot learn its origin; if from seed or otherwise; but am inclined to think it is a sport from our old favourite the Unique Rose; its habit is exactly similar and equally robust; its flowers of the same pure white, and blooming in the same large clusters; its flowers are however often imperfect.’ [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1888)].
Rosa ‘Unique Rouge’
A Centifolia rose. ‘Unique Rouge’ is a thorny shrub with very double, bright light pink, large or middle-sized flowers. [Gore, Don, Paul 1848].
Rosa ‘Vesta’
Categorised by Catherine Gore as a Provins rose, by Paul as a Gallica rose and by Don as a Centifolia. Gore describes ‘Vesta’ as a shrub, of which the buds are never red, a characteristic which distinguishes it from a number of very similar roses, the flowers large, semi-double, the petals velvety, of a light vivid crimson. [Gore, Paul 1848, FC p.267/1835].
Rosa ‘Village Maid’
Gallica rose. Catherine Gore describes it as a large, semi-double flower, white, striped with deep pink or cherry red. William Paul gives a similar description, white flowers striped with rose and purple, large and full and pendulous, on a low-growing bush. [Gore, Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)].
The illustration used here is from the Floricultural Cabinet. This publication was cheaply produced and the colours often untrue. The reason for the blue rose depicted is probably loss of the red component of the purple paint used, either from bleeding into the opposite page, which isn't obvious, or from selective fading of pigment.
Rosa ‘Viscomte des Cazes’
Tea rose with loose and irregularly-shaped flower of an unusual shade of coppery-yellow, very decorative according to William Paul, very sweet scented, free growing and hardy, one of the most beautiful roses. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1857, 1863, 1863), Henry Curtis p.25 vol.1/1850].
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