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.
Camellia japonica ‘like Waratah’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. No detailed description is extant.
Camellia japonica ‘Lysanthe’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Bred by William Herbert. Its maternal parent was a seedling from a cross between the ‘old single red’ and a striped camellia. This seedling was crossed with the ‘myrtle-leafed variety’, presumably C. myrtifolia of the catalogues. It has flowers of bright carmine colour, with stripes of pale pink running down the centre of each petal. The flowers are cupped, the outer petals falling back when fully expanded. [Gard.Chron. 1843, ICR].
Camellia japonica ‘Marcia’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 43/51. ‘Dark crimson, excessively double forming a half sphere with petals somewhat of a Waratah character. Good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Mariana’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 58/52. ‘Bright lake crimson, very double, outer petals large and flat, inner excessively crowded, erect and inclined to be blotched or striped, very like Vesta, very waved [indistinct word]. Good flower.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6]. Spelt ‘Marianna’ in the gardening notebook.
Camellia japonica ‘Marina’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 12/50. ‘Scarlet crimson, petals outer two rows large and flat, inner smaller, erect and confused. Globular flower. Very handsome. Tolerably good. E.B.’ It seems probable that the basic description was by Edmund Blake with some corrections and ‘tolerably good’ added by William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Medea’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 16/50. ‘Light crimson, beautifully shaped compact little flower, regularly imbricated nearly to centre, concave or bell [indistinct] shaped petals, good form and substance, rather irregular in very centre. Good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Medora’
A Camden Park cultivar, seedling 27/50. ‘Double red, said to be good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6]. He does not appear to have seen the flower at this time.
Camellia japonica ‘Metella’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 59/52. ‘Deep coral coloured, very double after the manner of Vesta but of much deeper colour. Good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Miranda’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 4/50. ‘White, with pink and crimson stripes and blotches. Quite double, petals well formed and regular nearly to centre. Good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Modesta’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L., ‘Modesta’ has very regular flowers of a delicate purplish-pink.
Camellia japonica ‘Myra’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 24/50. ‘Scarlet crimson, three rows of outer petals good, inner small and crowded but regular. Pretty flower. E.B.’ The initials suggest that this entry was made by Edmund Blake, although it is in Macarthur’s handwriting. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Myrtifolia’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L., ‘Myrtifolia’, the ‘Myrtle-leafed camellia’, has flowers to about 7.5cm across, deep rose when open, becoming paler, the flowers freely produced. It was imported from China by Greville for Kew in 1806. [Don, ICR]. The camellia usually grown as ‘Myrtifolia’ in Australia today is a later cultivar.
Camellia japonica ‘Nivalis’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L., ‘Nivalis’ has formal, double, medium large white flowers. [ICR, FC p.154/1836].
Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. ‘Leaves two and a half inches wide and three inches and eight lines long, roundish oval, a little acute, much dentated, and of a beautiful green, bud oval, obtuse, scales yellowish; flowers large, three inches in diameter, full white, exterior petals large, numerous and recurved; those of the interior smaller, crowded, rumpled; in appearance like the Pomponia. –Superb.’ [Berlèse Monography p.49/1838].
Camellia japonica ‘Octavia’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 66/52. ‘Large irregular ragged flower, numerous irregular petals, but though very crowded, loose in character. Middling.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
