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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Albo-sanguinea’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. A number of nurseries, including James Backhouse, the breeder, were offering Gloxinia albo sanguinea for sale in The Gardeners' Chronicle of 1849. The name suggests that it is a hybrid between Sinningia speciosa ‘Albiflora’, which see, and an unidentified cultivar called ‘Sanguinea’, red in colour.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Baron Reige’
Presumably a cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. I have found no reference to this plant. It is not listed in the Gesneriad Register-Sinningia or the Appendix.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Candida’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. I have found no description but the name candida suggests a pure white flower and its introduction by 1832, preceding the introduction of the Fyfiana cultivars, means it would have been of the wild, slipper form. Probably similar to the pure white slipper flower illustrated by Fitch in the Floral Magazine of 1861, shown here.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Candidissima’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. It is listed in the Appendix to the Gesneriad Register - Sinningia with a date of 1842. I have found no description.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Carminata Splendens’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. According to an advertisement in The Gardeners' Chronicle of 1849, Messrs. Roddenberry were selling Gloxinia carminata splendens ‘a fine, richly coloured flower, with great beauty of form and substance of petal. To the very numerous seedling varieties of this handsome tribe of plants, the above named will give an additional and attractive feature.’ This was apparently a quote from Paxton’s Magazine from January, 1849. The Floricultural Cabinet described carminata splendens, a large flowered variety, as bright rosy-red with a crimson spot inside. [FC p.135/1853].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Carminata’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. I have found no description and carminata is not listed in the Gesneriad Register – Sinningia although ‘Carminata Splendens’, which see, is.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens Discolor’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. See Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens’ for more detail. ‘Discolor’ means not the same colour throughout but I have found no specific description of this variety.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens Major’
Presumably a cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. I have found no specific description of caulescens major but see Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens’ and Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens Discolor’.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. A dwarf plant with small, bright purple, slipper-shaped flowers. [RHSD, Fish]. This description is somewhat at odds with the description given in Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet: ‘This grows with an erect stem nearly two feet in height’. At Camden Park there is a variety grown from Brazilian seed and simply labelled ‘Large Purple’ that is very similar to Loddiges’ description and to the figure in the Botanical Register used here.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Erecta Digitalis’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. The erecta cultivars are similar to ‘Fyfiana’, which see. The name digitalis for Macarthur’s plant suggests that it had purplish, spotted flowers, reminiscent of foxgloves. I have found no detailed description.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Erecta Magnifica’
Probably a cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. The erecta cultivars are similar to ‘Fyfiana’, which see. ‘Erecta Magnifica’ could well belong to this group. I have found no detailed description of this cultivar and the name magnifica gives no real clues.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Exquisita’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. A Gloxinia named ‘Exquisita’ was bred and sold by James Backhouse and Son, York Nurseries. In an advertisement in The Gardeners' Chronicle it was described as ‘pure white, with rose streak and vivid carmine blotch, larger than G. albo sanguinea. Very beautiful.’ [Gard. Chron 1849]. This plant was also reviewed in the Floricultural Cabinet [FC p.230/1849].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Fischeri’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. It is not listed under this name in the main Gesneriad Register – Sinningia, or in the Appendix. I have found no description for this plant.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Formosa’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern, it has rich purple crimson flowers. Listed in the Floricultural Cabinet as Achimenes formosa. [FC p.194/1847]. Formosa means finely formed, handsome, beautiful. [Stearn].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Fyfiana’
Cultivars of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern, convariety fyfiana cultivars are distinguished by their erect, or nearly erect, bell-shaped, regular corolla. Flowers are white, shading to pink, yellow or orange red and violet, variously striped, spotted or blotched, or in combinations of these. They were first raised by John Fyfe, a gardener at Rothesay in Scotland in 1845. [Moore].
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