Tanacetum Asteraceae. T. Parthenium 'Rowallane'
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173 Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, from Clontarf in 1837. Evidently yellow-fruited yew was distributed around Irish T gardens. Elwes & Henry noted a tree ‘in an avenue of old Tanacetum yews’ at Ardsallagh, Co. Meath, and ‘several trees’ at Asteraceae. Powerscourt including one 40ft tall (in 1888). refs: Gard. chron. 4 (1888): 576, 707; Walsh, Ross & Nelson, An T. parthenium ‘Rowallane’ Irish florilegium (1983), 106-108; Nelson & Walsh, Trees of syn: Chrysanthemum parthenium ‘Rowallane’ Ireland (1993), 225, 234; Nelson, An Irish flower garden Annual, stems brown, foliage dark; flowers white, double. (1984), 18; Elwes & Henry, Trees of GB & Ireland (1906), Origin: arose at Rowallane, Saintfield, Co. Down; a sterile 114; Baxter, The eternal yew (1992), 53. plant which does not self-sow. illusts: An Irish florilegium (1983), plate 19; Trees of Ireland ref: Cotswold Garden Flowers catalogue 1998, 43. (1993), plate 29. ❀❀❀ T. baccata ‘Pseudo-procumbens’ unknown syn. T. baccata var. procumbens (of Hornibrook) Taxus Low-growing, compact bush with a rounded top and pendulous Taxaceae. Yew. branches ‘in thick, compact layers’; a female clone. Origin: the origin is not recorded by Hornibrook, but he T. baccata ‘Adpressa Variegata’ noted a ‘fine specimen’ in the National Botanic Gardens,c. 1860 Tree with lax branches and ascending shoots, leaves variegated Glasnevin, Dublin, 3 feet tall and 7 feet across. with yellow or yellowish-white. ref: Hornibrook, Dwarf conifers (1939), 2nd ed.), 241. Origin: this was either raised at the Royal Dublin Society’s Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, or was distributed from ❀❀❀ Glasnevin, in the 1860s. refs: Krussmann, Manual of cultivated conifers (1985, 2nd ed.), Thuja 282; Elwes & Henry, Trees of GB & Ireland I (1906), 115. Cupressaceae. T. baccata ‘Fastigiata’ T. occidentalis ‘Caespitosa’ c. 1740 before 1922 Upright tree, with erect (fastigiate) branches, leaves in whorls; Short, very think branches, ‘branchlet sprays’ about 2 inches female clone, producing red fruits. long and 1 inch across, erect; the bush forms a low, flat-topped Origin: from Carrick-na-madadh, on the slopes of Cuilcagh cushion, 12 inches tall and 20 inches across. Mountain, not far from Florencecourt, Co. Fermanagh; Origin: ‘A tiny form’ which Murray Hornibrook found at the found by George Willis c. 1740 – an earlier date that Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Whether it generally stated, as explained by Nelson (1981a). Philip de originated at Glasnevin or elsewhere is not recorded. Malpas Grey-Egerton informed Charles Darwin that ref: Hornibrook, Dwarf conifers (1939, 2nd. ed), 254. Old Hugh [sic] Willis of Ahaterourke under Ben Aughlin, T. occidentalis ‘Ericoides Glauca’ before 1939 found two upright yews in the mountain between the syn: T. koraiensis ‘Ericoides Glauca’ Cove and the Ben near Lugahurra Hollow [and] he Foliage glaucous blue in summer, in winter ‘dirty brown-green’. brought one to his landlord. Origin: Murray Hornibrook noted that this ‘form of the var. ericoides’ [sic] was growing at Rostrevor House, ‘in the The mother tree – the original Irish yew – still survives in collection of the late Col. Ross, of Bladensburg’. the woodland near Florencecourt House. ref: Hornibrook, Dwarf conifers (1939, 2nd ed.), 249. This is best propagated by cuttings; when seeds, collected from an Irish yew are sown, a few will come true. T. plicata ‘Irish Gold’ unknown refs: Walsh, Ross & Nelson, An Irish florilegium (1983), syn: T. plicata ‘Zebrina’ of Irish garden; ‘Extra Gold’, ‘Zebrina 106-108; Nelson & Walsh, Trees of Ireland (1993), 221, 225, Extra Gold’ 234; Nelson, ‘The nomenclature and history in cultivation Tree to 10m of more in height; shoots with bright, pale gold of the Irish yew, Taxus baccata ‘Fastigiata’,’ Glasra 5 variegation (flecked, not banded). (1981a): 33-44; —, ‘The Irish yew’, The garden 106 Origin: a mysterious tree, probably of Irish origin, because (1981b): 429-431; Clarke, ‘The Irish yew’, The garden 107 it seems to be quite common in older gardens in Ireland. (1982): 119; Ir. garden 2 (2) (March-April 1993): 11; Generally therein it has been named ‘Zebrina’ although it is Moorea 10 (1993): 35-40; Elwes & Henry, Trees of GB & not that cultivar. Ireland I(1906), 110-111; Baxter, The eternal yew (1992), Alan Mitchell pointed out its distinctive characters, ‘a looser 50-53; Hartzell, The yew tree (1991), 67-68. habit and much paler, brighter gold foliage, with scarcely illusts: An Irish florilegium (1983), plate 19; Glasra 5 (1981a): any green bars.’ John Bond of Savill Garden, Windsor Great figs 2-5 (including old photographs); Ir. garden 2 (2) park, Berkshire had suggested calling it ‘Irish Gold’ about (March-April 1993): 11; Irish postage stamp 1 March 1984; 1966, and this name has recently been published by Roy Baxter, The eternal yew (1992), 51. Lancaster. John Bond obtained a plant from Geoffrey Pilkington in T. baccata ‘Lutea’ 1960 (as ‘Zebrina’); Pilkington had obtained it several years1817 syn: T. baccata var. fructu-luteo earlier from Ireland. Fruits with amber-yellow arils, branches spreading and often It is interesting to note that Elwes & Henry (Trees of GB & somewhat pendulous. Ireland I (1906), 184) make not mention of any variants – Origin: from two gardens on the north side of Dublin, first ‘There is very little variation among the seedlings ...’. noticed in the early 1800s. One tree was in the Bishop of award: AGM Kildare’s property at Glasnevin; this was across the River refs: The garden 121 (1996): 760-761; Hillier manual of trees & Tolka from the Dublin Society’s Botanic Gardens. This tree shrubs (1991, 6th ed.), 649. ‘disappears’, and the second one, growing at Clontarf Castle, illust: The garden 121 (1996): 761. Dublin, a short distance away to the east and nearer the sea, comes into prominence. It was said to have been T. occidentalis ‘Watereri’ before 1923 propagated in 1838, but material was received at the syn: T. watereri, T. occidentalis var. ericoides Watereri 174 ‘A juvenile state of the same type as T. occidentalis var. ericoides, ❀❀❀ but ... distinct ... a low bush of several leading plumose shoots, none of which appears able to support themselves, and flop Torreya about.’ Leaves very thin, heath-like, mostly minute (less than ⅛ Taxodiaceae. inch long), but some ⅜ inch long. Origin: ‘A form growing at Gowran Castle, Co. Kilkenny, and T. nucifera var prostrata before 1923 at Blandsfort’, Co. Offaly, was noted by Hornibrook, and Bush making ‘an almost prostrate mat under 3 feet high by 15 named ‘Watereri’. The origin of the plants was not feet through’. discovered. Nothing like it was described in Waterer’s Origin: a seedling planted out in the Royal Botanic Gardens, catalogue, according to Hornibrook. Glasnevin, Dublin, and first noted by Hornibrook before refs: Hornibrook Dwarf conifers(1923), 171; — (1939, 2nd ed.), 1923. 250-251. refs: Hornibrook, Dwarf conifers (1923), 183; — (1939, 2nd ed.), 271. ❀❀❀ ❀❀❀ Thymus Lamiaceae. Thyme. Trichomanes Hymenophyllaceae. Killarney fern. T. serpyllum ‘Fermanagh’ See sub-section Ferns before 1985 ‘Free flowering bright violet-purple’ flowers, 2 inches tall. Origin: ‘found recently in Ireland’, but evidently from Co. T. speciosum Fermanagh (see ‘Grandiflora’ below); introduced by syn: T. radicans, T. brevisetum Michael Wickenden, Kircubben, Co. Down. The famous Killarney fern has produced a number of ref: Wickenden A catalogue of herbaceous perennials... Spring variants that have been given separate names by fern 1985: 23. enthusiasts. T. serpyllum ‘Grandiflorum’ ‘Andrewsii’ c. 1894 early 1800s ‘The flowers are twice the size of those of the type. A good syn: T. radicans Andrewsii thing.’ ‘with narrow and more lance-shaped fronds’; ‘differed from the Origin: collected in the mountains of Co. Fermanagh; usual Kerry form in having winged involucra and fronds propagated and introduced by Daisy Hill Nursery, Newry, lanceolate instead of triangular’. Co. Down. It was one of a group of native plants given Origin: first collected by William Andrews at The names and offered for sale by Thomas Smith in 1894 (see Blackstone, Glen Caragh, Co. Kerry, and hailed as a new also Scabiosa). The coincidence of the Wickenden cultivar is species. It was so much sought after by collectors that, as extraordinary, but it is a coincidence. Scully remarked in 1916, it ‘has long since been ref: Nelson & Grills, Daisy Hill Nursery (1998), 145. exterminated in all its known stations.’ Andrews’ plant was cultivated by many people including ❀❀❀ Robert Callwell (of Herbert Place, Dublin), who spoke about its cultivation to the Dublin Natural History Society on 10 Tilia March 1851: Tiliaceae. Lime, Linden. In the year 1842 Mr. Andrews had given him a plant T. rubra ‘Dimond’ having two fronds, one about six inches long, the other1968 Dwarf, slow-growing tree; in 1984 this was 4ft tall and 2¾ feet partially developed. There he placed under a bell-jar ... wide; leaves ‘darker [than ‘Moylinney’] and much more crinkled In the spring of 1845, so luxuriantly has the plant in appearance’. extended that he removed the mass to a larger case. At Origin: a seedling found at Muckamore Forest Nursery, Co. the time there were about twenty fronds, all fully Antrim. This and ‘Moylinney’, occurred in a batch of developed, and presently that beautiful green hue and seedlings raised by Mr Pat Dimond. He sowed seeds, delicacy of texture which are the remarkable gathered at Moylinney, on the Shane’s Castle estate, in characteristics of the plant. Autumn 1968, and these two dwarf seedlings were among about 12,000 seedlings. The seedlings were noticeably refs: Newman, A history of British ferns (1854), 289-296; Br. slower growing than the rest and about 1971 they were fern gaz. 3 (1917): 189; Scully, Flora of Co. Kerry (1916), potted into containers. Until 1976 the two were kept in 360-361; Phytologist 4 (1851): 164-165. containers, but that year Mr Dimond planted them in his illust: Newman, A history of British ferns (1854), 292.