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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Camellia japonica ‘Viola’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 67/52. ‘Bluish pink, very double, quite irregular petals, very crowded, large and small intermixed, erect. Handsome flower, but rather ragged’. William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica L. var. ?Virgilia?
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 39/51. ‘Dark pink, tolerably regular, very double, petals of thick substance, but rather pointed. Very good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Volumnea’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 34/51. ‘Bright crimson, two rows of outer petals, very broad and large and of thick substance, inner very small and placed like old Waratah, but a handsomer flower. Good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Wardii’
A Camellia japonica L. cultivar. ‘Wardii’ has full, dark orange-red flowers with round petals in 10 tiers, the centre ones very small. [FC p.267/1837, ICR].
Camellia japonica ‘Wellbankii’
A Camellia japonica L. cultivar. ‘Wellbankii’ has yellowish-white flowers to 8.5cm across, the petals somewhat confused, the outer roundish, with undulated margins, the inner irregular and twisted in tufts. [ICR].
Camellia japonica ‘Woodsii’
A Camellia japonica L. cultivar. ‘Woodsii’ has very regular pale red flowers, to 10cm across, with 3 rows of large outer petals and smaller, erect inner petals, somewhat like ‘Waratah’. It bears fine, large, cup-shaped, deep pink or red flowers. [ICR].
Camellia maliflora Lindl.
Fully-hardy leafy shrub, similar to C. sasanqua, with elliptic, dark green leaves and peony form flowers 1.5 – 2cm across, in two shades of pink, in early spring. To 2.5m. [RHSE].
Camellia oleifera Abel.
Fully-hardy, small, erect tree with slender branches and elliptic or obovate leaves and scented, single white flowers in autumn. To 7m by 4m. [RHSE].
Camellia reticulata ‘Captain Rawes’
A cultivar of Camellia reticulata Lindl. Fully-hardy open-branched small tree or large shrub with elliptic, leathery leaves and very large, semi-double, carmine rose-red flowers, to 11cm across, in spring. To 15m. [RHS, Hilliers’].
Camellia sasanqua Thunb.
Fully-hardy upright to spreading shrub or small tree with elliptic leaves and fragrant, single, cup-shaped white flowers, 5-7cm across, in autumn. To 6m. Many cultivars exist in a range of colours. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze var. bohea
Half-hardy, slow-growing shrub with ovate, pointed leaves and small, nodding white flowers in spring. The variety bohea has darker green leaves and usually solitary flowers. [RHSD, Hilliers’].
Campanula lactiflora M.Bieb.
Hardy perennial with toothed oblong leaves and whiteish-blue flowers in terminal panicles. To 1.2m or more. [RHSD, Hortus].
Campanula latifolia L.
Erect, spreading perennial with lance-shaped, toothed leaves and loose racemes of funnel-shaped blue flowers in summer. To 1.5m. White-flowered forms occur naturally. [RHSD, Hortus]. See also Campanula latfolia L. var. macrantha A.DC.
Campanula latifolia L. var. alba
See Campanula latifolia L. and Campanula latfolia L. var. macrantha A.DC. A white-flowered form. To about 20cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Campanula latifolia L. var. macrantha A.DC.
A vigorous, erect perennial with somewhat sparse foliage and dark blue, broadly tubular flowers, to 6cm long. To 1m. [RHSD, Hortus].
