Herbaceous Plants
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is poorly defined. Annuals and perennial herbs were included here. This is retained but Annuals are also separately identified.
Dendranthema x grandiflorum ‘Quilled Pink’
A cultivar of Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam. Incurving ranunculus flowered. ‘Of tall stature, and one of the very latest in blooming; but very handsome, and repaying by its beauty every care bestowed upon it by the gardener. It has been called the most beautiful of all; but with me it yields to the gold-bordered Red.’ [FC p.73/1833]. ‘Introduced by the Horticultural Society in August 1819, and flowered in the garden the following year. One of the latest importations from China, and in regard to the blossom, certainly one of the finest; but flowers produced late in the year and rather sparingly.’ [BR f.616/1822].
Dendranthema x grandiflorum ‘Quilled Salmon’
A cultivar of Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam. Tassel flowered chrysanthemum. ‘This is late flowering, slender, and graceful plant, with large tassel-like, and half-expanded drooping quilled salmon-coloured flowers, and is very uncommon.’ [FC p.73/1833].
Dendranthema x grandiflorum ‘Quilled White’
A cultivar of Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam. Tassel flowered chrysanthemum. ‘This rather slender variety is almost of the middle-size, and has the slenderest and most completely quilled flowers, and the earliest flowers, of the whole group, which hang in graceful drooping tassels, and form a strong contrast to [the Great Tassled white].’ [FC p.73/1833]. Possibly the plant figured in the Botanical Register. [BR f.4/1815].
Dendranthema x grandiflorum ‘Semi-double Quilled Orange’
A cultivar of Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam. Half-double tassel flowered chrysanthemum. ‘A tallish plant, with but few large and almost single, and some nearly half-double flowers of a good size, but making a poor show.’ [FC p.73/1833].
Dendranthema x grandiflorum ‘Superb Clustered Yellow’
A cultivar of Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam. Marigold flowered chrysanthemum. ‘One of the finest and tallest of the group, with clustered, neatly formed, pure yellow flowers, late in ageing.’ [FC p.73/1833].
Dendranthema x grandiflorum ‘Tasselled Lilac’
A cultivar of Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam. Tassel flowered chrysanthemum. ‘A middle-sized, a rather tall plant, of very great beauty, and one of the most desirable of the whole group, having very showy tasselled flowers, five inches or more in expanse, very numerous, early, and elegantly drooping from their weight, but they often show a disk.’ [FC p.73/1833].
Dendranthema x grandiflorum ‘Tasselled White’
A cultivar of Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam. Tassel flowered chrysanthemum. ‘This large, strong and broad, deep-green, shiny-leaved variety is one of the latest of all in blooming; but its lovely flowers are larger and more showy than those of any white-flowered variety, and endure to the end of January. No flower in this chilly climate stands the cold so well, or so long continues to beguile the fancy of a florist by its protracted opening, by its hardihood in expansion, and by the soft hew of its snowy blossoms; carrying on, as it were, the flowering beauty of lingering autumn into the bosom of winter, whose ice at length closes the temple of Flora for a time, until the herald flowers of spring appear amidst the melting snow as if impatient of delay.’ [FC p.73/1833].
Dendranthema x grandiflorum ‘Tasselled Yellow’
A cultivar of Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam. Tassel flowered chrysanthemum. ‘A very tall and strong-growing large-leaved variety, with numerous tassel-formed flowers of the largest and most showy kind, often measuring more than 5 inches over, and appearing rather early. It is one of the most desirable and free-growing of the whole collection.’ [MB p.194/1834].
Dendranthema x grandiflorum Kitam.
Very variable, frost-tender or half-hardy perennial with small to large flowers in a large range of form and colour. Up to 1.2m. [RHSE, Hortus]. Florist’s chrysanthemum: ‘Half a ball, double, symmetrical; centre well up and perfect; petals broad, blunt, and thick; colour decided, and every petal free from notch.’ [FC p.10/1848]. A figure in Illustration Horticole in 1870 shows how the chrysanthemum had improved in little over three decades. [IH pl.8/1870].
Derwentia perfoliata (R.Br.) Raf.
Frost hardy, woody-based, evergreen perennial with arching stems, paired, ovate, toothed leaves, to 5cm long, and racemes of saucer-shaped blue flowers, to 1cm across, in late summer. To 75cm. [RHSE, FNSW, Hilliers’].
Dianthus barbatus L.
Bushy, short-lived perennial, usually grown as a biennial, the clusters of small, sometimes double, often sweet-smelling flowers appearing in late spring and early summer. There are many garden cultivars in a wide range of colours. To 70cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Dianthus caryophyllus ‘Colonel of the Blues’
For generic information on the garden carnation see Dianthus caryophyllus L. Probably Hogg’s ‘Colonel of the Blues’ is a purple flake carnation. ‘A little deficient in colour, but good form.’ [FC p.254/1842].
Dianthus caryophyllus ‘Devonshire Hero’
For generic information on the garden carnation see Dianthus caryophyllus L. A Florists’ Carnation, but I have found no description of ‘Devonshire Hero’.
Dianthus caryophyllus ‘Duke of Roxborough’
For generic information on the garden carnation see Dianthus caryophyllus L. ‘Duke of Roxborough’ is probably Barnard’s ‘Duke of Roxborough’, a crimson bizarre carnation. ‘A large flower, but not quite so clean in the white when I saw it as I could wish.’ [FC p.254/1842].
Dianthus caryophyllus ‘Le Trancendens’
For generic information on the garden Carnation and Picotee see Dianthus caryophyllus L. ‘Le Trancendens’ has ‘bright yellow ground petals, margined with light scarlet, and slightly serrated; a very pretty sort.’ A new picotee in 1849. [FC p.292/1849].
