Trees and Shrubs
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is not clearly defined. In broad terms it includes all plants with woody stems except conifers and fruit trees and shrubs.
Prunus ilicifolia Walp.
Frost-hardy, compact, spreading, rounded, evergreen shrub or small tree with holly-like leaves and bowl-shaped, white flowers, to 8mm across, in racemes in summer, followed by spherical, cherry-like red fruit, ripening to blue-black. To 9m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Prunus japonica Thunb.
Fully-hardy dwarf shrub or small tree with serrated, ovate leaves, and white, blush or pink flowers, often double in cultivated forms, appearing before the leaves in spring. A number of garden forms exist. [RHSD, Hortus].
Prunus laurocerasus L.
Fully-hardy, dense, bushy, evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy, oblong leaves, to 15cm long, and upright racemes of fragrant white flowers, to 8mm across, in spring, followed by cherry-like red fruit, ripening to black. To 8m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Prunus lusitanica L.
Frost-hardy, dense, bushy, evergreen shrub or tree with red-stalked, glossy, elliptic leaves, to 12cm long, and slender racemes, to 25cm long, of fragrant, cup-shaped white flowers, to 1.5cm across, in spring, followed by cherry-like red fruit, ripening to black. To 20m. A useful hedging plant. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Prunus persica ‘Camden Excellent’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. I have found no description of this peach or nectarine. Probably a peach as nectarines are identified in the catalogues.
Prunus persica ‘Camden Newington’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. I have found no description of this peach. Its seed parent was probably ‘Old Newington’ and, given the parentage of other Camden-bred cultivars, it seems likely that its parentage also included the double China peach.
Prunus persica ‘Camden Superb’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. A Camden-bred peach for which we have a limited description.
Prunus persica ‘Early Double-Blossom China’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. I have found no specific reference to this peach, but see Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. var. flore pleno.
Prunus persica ‘Elruge’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. ‘Flowers small. Fruit middle-sized, rather more long than broad. Skin greenish yellow on the shaded side; but when exposed to the sun, of a dark red or purple colour. Flesh greenish yellow, melting and juicy, of a very excellent flavour, and separates from the stone. Ripe the beginning and middle of August.’ [George Lindley – Orchard Guide p.289/1831].
Prunus persica ‘Grosse Mignonne’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. ‘Fruit large, depressed, hollowed at the summit, with a moderately deep suture, and swelled considerably on one of its sides, and a wide cavity at the base; the side marked by the suture is shorter than the opposite one. Skin rather thinly clad with down, of a rich, very deep red, next the sun, thickly mottled on a yellowish ground next the wall. Flesh pale yellow, rayed with red at the stone, from which it freely separates; melting, juicy, with a rich vinous flavour. Stone small for the size of the fruit, ovate, very rugged. Ripe the beginning and middle of September.’ [George Lindley – Orchard Guide p.259/1831].
Prunus persica ‘Improved Hybrid Camden’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. I have found no description of this peach.
Prunus persica ‘June Peach’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. I have found no detailed description of this peach.
Prunus persica ‘Madelaine de Courson’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. ‘Fruit below the middle size, globular, flattened, deeply cleft on one side. Skin pale yellowish white next the wall; but of beautiful red on the sunny side. Flesh quite white, with a little red at the stone, from which it separates. Juice plentiful, rich, and vinous. Stone blunt, rather large in proportion to the size of the fruit. Ripe the end of August or beginning of September. This is a very excellent Peach, and ought to be found in every good collection of fruit.’ [George Lindley – Orchard Guide p.262/1831].
Prunus persica ‘Malta’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. ‘Flowers large, pale. Fruit middle sized, generally depressed at the apex, with a broad shallow suture on one side, and slight traces of one on the other. Skin, on the shaded side, pale dull greenish yellow; next the sun, broadly marked with broken blotches of dull purplish red. Flesh greenish yellow, with a slight stain of purple next the stone, from which it separates. Juice plentiful, very rich, with an extremely agreeable vinous flavour. Stone middle sized, oval, pointed, rather rugged. Ripe the end of August and beginning of September.’ [George Lindley – Orchard Guide p.260/1831].
Prunus persica ‘March Peach’
A Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. cultivar. I have found no description of this peach.
