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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Sedum sieboldii Hort. ex G.Don
Fully hardy, spreading, deciduous, succulent perennial with whorls of 3 rounded, occasionally purple-tinted leaves, to 2cm long, sometimes toothed and red-margined, and cymes of star-shaped pink flowers, to 1.5cm across in summer. To 10cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Selenicereus grandiflorus (L.) Britt. & Rose
Frost tender, climbing, epiphytic cactus with 5- to 8-ribbed stems, to 2.5cm thick, and nocturnal, fragrant white flowers in summer. To 5m. [RHSD].
Senecio cineraria DC.
Frost hardy, mound-forming, evergreen, biennial, sub-shrub, with ovate to lance-shaped, shallowly or deeply cut, felted, silvery-grey leaves and loose corymbs of mustard yellow flowers in midsummer. It is usually grown as an annual for its decorative foliage, often in formal bedding displays. To 60cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Sequoia sempervirens Endl.
Fully-hardy, evergreen, columnar or conical tree with horizontal or down curved branches, fissured, reddish bark, 2-ranked, linear leaves, silvery beneath, and spherical to cylindrical female cones, to 3cm long, ripening in their first season. To 112m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) J.Buchholz
Large tree with deeply furrowed, reddish-brown bark, the leaves awl-shaped, bright green and spirally-arranged, of conical habit when young, the branches more widely spaced and down-swept when mature. To 90m or more. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Sesbania cavanillesii S.Watson
Frost-tender shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves composed of up to 12 pairs of lance-shaped leaflets, and racemes of yellow flowers in summer. To 2m or more. [RHSD].
Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Pers.
Short-lived, soft-wooded tree with pinnate leaves, to 30cm, with up to 30 pairs of leaflets, and racemes of large, pea-like, red, pink or white flowers followed by seed pods to 45cm long. To 12m. [RHSD]. Don describes Agati grandiflora Desv. as having yellowish flowers, with white and pink forms also known.
Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Pers. var. florealba
See Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Pers. for a general description. The variety alba, recorded from from Northern Australia, has double white flowers. [RHSD].
Shepherdia argentea (Pursh) Nutt.
Fully hardy, slow-growing, upright, bushy, deciduous shrub, often tree-like, with oblong leaves, to 5cm long, and small yellow-green flowers in spring, followed on female plants by ovoid, sour-tasting, bright red fruit. To 4m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’]. A useful hedging species.
Sibiraea laevigata (L.) Maxim.
Fully-hardy, upright to spreading shrub with deep red-brown young shoots, sea-green, obovate leaves, to 10cm long, and terminal panicles of whitish flowers produced from the tips of the shoots in spring. To 1m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Silene laciniata Cav.
A tender, pubescent perennial herbaceous plant with with large, lance-shaped leaves and deep scarlet, star-like flowers. [RHSD, Hortus, Gard. Chron 1843].
Sinningia bulbosa (Ker-Gawl.) Wiehler
Frost-tender, tuberous-rooted perennial with downy stems, leaves and flowers, opposite, heart-shaped, toothed leaves, and upright stems bearing terminal panicles of large, wide-mouthed, velvety scarlet flowers, with a white lower lip splotched with dark purple. [RHSD].
Sinningia hirsuta (Lindl.) Nichols
Frost-tender tuberous perennial with ovate, crinkled leaves, to 15cm long, covered with fine hairs, and trumpet-shaped flowers, mauve outside, darker inside, white striped and red spotted inside the tube. [RHSD, Don].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Albo-sanguinea Superba’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. See Sinningia speciosa ‘Albo-sanguinea’. ‘Albo-sanguinea Superba’ was also bred and sold by James Backhouse and Son of York Nurseries who described it as ‘larger and finer in every way than albo sanguinea’ in an advertisement in The Gardeners' Chronicle. [Gard. Chron. 1849]. I have found no specific description.
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