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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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 ‘Godefroi de Bouillon’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. The Floricultural Cabinet described it as a fine blue [FC p.135/1853].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Grandis’
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 detailed description for this plant but the description in the Journal D'Horticulture Pratique de La Belgique implies that it is a slipper gloxinia with white flowers with a marked crimson stripe at the base.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Labiata’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern, Gloxinia ‘Labiata’ was bred and sold by James Backhouse and Son, York Nurseries, who described it in an advertisement in The Gardeners' Chronicle: ‘lowest petal clouded all over with rose colour; the others white, rich blotch.’ [Gard. Chron. 1849].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Leonie van Houtte’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern, ‘Leonie van Houtte’ was described under new plants in the Floricultural Cabinet of 1854: ‘Flowers very distinct and handsome, a delicate pink with white centre, and the white extends all round the throat, also of good form.’ [FC p.124/1854].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Madam Malibran’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern, ‘Madam Malibran’ was described in the Floricultural Cabinet as bright-rose with a violet throat, fine [FC p.135 and 150/1853]. It had earlier been advertised for sale in The Gardeners Chronicle [GC p.353/1851].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Maxima Alba’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. See Sinningia speciosa ‘Maxima Discolor’ for detail. Probably a form with pure white, or almost pure white, flowers. I have found no specific description.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Maxima Discolor’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern, Gloxinia discolor was described in the Floricultural Cabinet of 1854: ‘light blue, with a dark purple front, and a broad stripe of white inside the blossom; very neat.’ This may be the catalogue plant, but see also Sinningia speciosa ‘Caulescens Discolor’. [FC p.100/1854, Moore].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Maxima Variegata’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. See Sinningia speciosa ‘Maxima Discolor’ for detail. I have found no specific description but probably a cultivar with flowers of several colours as illustrated here, or, much less likely, with variegated leaves. See also Sinningia speciosa 'Variegata'.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Napoleon’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern with carmine-red and white flowers. [FC p.135/1853]. I have found no more detailed description.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Passinghamii’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. Of vigorous habit and a prolific bloomer it has large, velvety, deep purple flowers and luxuriant foliage. [MB p.267/1846, JD].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Pellicoides’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. Not listed under this name in the main Gesneriad Register – Sinningia, or in the Appendix. I have found no description.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Pellucida’
Presumably a cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. I have found no reference to this plant. Pellucidus means translucent. [Stearn].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Priestleyana’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern, ‘Priestleyana’ has deep blue flowers. [GRS, GC p.328/1849].
Sinningia speciosa ‘Rubra-splendens’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. This cultivar is not listed in Sinningia Register Appendix of extinct cultivar names. I have found no specific description but it is likely to be very similar to, or identical with, Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern var. rubra, which see. The latter was figured in the Floricultural Cabinet in 1841. That illustration is given here [FC p.98/1841]. Rubra was introduced to Philadelphia from Brazil and may be a naturally occurring colour form.
Sinningia speciosa ‘Rubra’
A cultivar of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern. The flowers of rubra are deep crimson red when first opened, growing paler with age, with a bluish tinge in the throat, and deeper shaded stripes on the tube. [FC p.98/1841].
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