Area 4E – Notes.

In this area the labels were for a time fixed to posts in the ground. This has been discontinued and some have a label on a post as well as one hanging in the bush.

‘Jean Lyne’ (4E-025) was labelled ‘Edith Linton’, which is the solid pink form of ‘Jean Lyne’. This bush produces a variety of flower colours, very few of them solid pink.

‘Elizabeth Cole’ (4E-026) Described as irregular double, peony form, 12-15 near orbiculate petals; so room for doubt, this being a formal double.

There were two plants labelled ‘Odoratissima’, quite different from each other. I believe (4E-009) to be correct and that 4E-010 is ‘Temple Incense’, a variety growing in another Cornish collection under the name ‘Incense’. ‘Odoratissima’ (4E-009) has little or no scent, ‘Temple Incense’ (4E-010) has a strong and not especially pleasant scent, somewhat medicinal.

‘Rose Bouquet’ (4E-015). This was a repeat of the confusion at 4A-035, an identical plant. This is not Camellia japonica ‘Pink Bouquet’, it is C. x williamsii ‘Rose Bouquet’ and has now been relabelled accordingly.

‘Somersby’ (4E-032) is described in the register as rose form double to peony form, while this is formal double until it has been open for some time, when a few stamens appear in the centre.

There are two cultivars of ‘Swan Lake’ in the Register, an Australian x williamsii and an American japonica. It seems to have been assumed that this was the Australian x williamsii but I am convinced it is in fact the American japonica, now distinguished by having (Monrovia) incorporated into its name. The Register describes the foliage of the Australian variety as having the fine serration and distinct venation of a typical x williamsii. These plants have typical japonica foliage.

(4E-002) was labelled ‘Daintrie Sievers’, which is the variety at 4A-022, itself originally labelled ‘Henry Price’. I don’t know what this variety is, but it is neither of those two..