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.
Rosa ‘Paul Ricault’
Classified by Graham S. Thomas as a Provence rose but with ‘signs of hybridity.’ Most Australian nurseries consider it to be a Hybrid Perpetual although it scarcely warrants this appellation as it is summer-flowering only. Paul described it variously as a Hybrid Bourbon and Hybrid China and Rivers as a Hybrid Bourbon. Paul Ricault was a prominent rose fancier from Falkirk in Scotland and regular writer on the subject of roses in the pages of the The Gardeners’ Chronicle and elsewhere. ‘Paul Ricault’ has large, very double crimson-pink or bright carmine flowers. According to The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1857 ‘a most hardy rose for size, shape, colour, very lasting and beautiful in a pot or exhibition’. [Paul (1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863)].
Rosa ‘Perditta’
A cluster-flowered Hybrid China bred by John Bidwill at Camden Park. Macarthur referred to it as a ‘new hybrid, very fragrant’ in the letter to John Bailey.
Rosa ‘Perle des Panachées’
Gallica rose. ‘Perle des Panachées’ has rose-purple and white striped flowers, the markings very clear and distinct, of medium size, full and expanded form. It forms a moderately growing bush of erect habit. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Amat].
Rosa ‘Prince Albert’
Bourbon rose, actually a cross between ‘Gloire de Romenè’, a Bourbon, and a Damask China. It produces clusters of scarlet-crimson flowers, medium size, very double, of compact form. A shrub of moderate growth with short, stiff shoots, useful as a bedding rose. By all contemporary accounts a beautiful rose. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), FC p.305/1856, BF pl.15/1841].
Rosa ‘Prince Imperial’
Hybrid Perpetual. Its flowers are rosy carmine, very large, globular and full, growth moderate. [Paul 1863].
Rosa ‘Prince Leon’
Hybrid Perpetual. ‘Prince Leon’ has very double bright crimson flowers, on a shrub of moderate growth but vigorous habit. It was considered a good show rose. It was described in The Gardeners’ Chronicle as a ‘ most magnificent rose, somewhat after the style of ‘Madame Masson’ and ‘Lord Raglan’’. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Gard. Chron. 1857), FC p.229/1857].
Rosa ‘Princess Alice’
A Moss rose. Paul describes the flowers as blush with pink centres, similar to ‘Maiden’s blush’, the buds very well mossed, growth vigorous. Rivers described it as a neat and pretty new blush Moss rose, its habit upright and very robust and vigorous. [Paul (1888, 1903), Rivers 1854].
Rosa ‘Princess Royal’
Moss rose with purple and crimson, mottled flowers, large, double and cupped, on a vigorous, very spiny shrub. According to Paul (1848) it makes a good standard or pillar. [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1903), FC p.42/1850].
Rosa ‘Princesse Adelaide’
Moss rose. Paul thought that it was probably a hybrid between a Moss and a hybrid Bourbon rose. Raised by Laffay. William Paul, describing a visit to Laffay’s Nursery in 1845 wrote: ‘He has also a Moss Rose, ‘Princesse Adelaide’, of a pale rose colour, blooming in corymbs, and said to be very handsome’. In The Rose Garden he describes it as a pale glossy rose, flowering in large clusters, individual flowers large and full, compact form, habit erect and growth vigorous, a hybrid, suitable for a sunny wall or pillar. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)].
Rosa ‘Princesse de Lamballe’
Alba rose. The flowers are pure white, sometimes delicately tinted with flesh. It was included in a list of recommended Damask, Alba, French and Hybrid Provins roses in The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1850, and in 1847 was recommended as a pot rose. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Gard. Chron. 1847, 1850].
Rosa ‘Queen Victoria’
Hybrid Perpetual. The flowers of ‘Queen Victoria’ are white, shaded with pink, very large and full, globular in shape, on a vigorous shrub. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854), Henry Curtis p.7 vol.2/1853].
Rosa ‘Red Moss’
The flowers of the ‘Red Moss Rose’ are semi-double, middle-sized and pale red or deep pink in colour. [Gore, Rivers (1854), Paul (1848, 1888)].
Rosa ‘Réveil’
Bourbon rose. The flowers are cherry-crimson in colour, large and full in form on a vigorous shrub. Paul considered it a fine hardy dark Bourbon rose. [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1854, 1857), Amat].
Rosa ‘River’s Musk’
A cultivar of Rosa moschata Mill. raised by Thomas Rivers from Italian seed is an abundantly blooming rose with small, fragrant flowers of a rosy buff colour. [Rivers (1854, 1857, (1863), Paul (1848, 1888, 1903)].
