Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society

Rose Garden - Gowrie Plantation,
Argyle Island, Georgia, 1859
Gowrie Plantation
1859
Georgia
A plant list from a plan for a rose garden with plant list for Gowrie Plantation on Argyle Island,
Georgia, 1859
In the Mangault Papers in Southern Historical Collection at Chapel Hill, NC.
Because of the way the list is structured, this is a diagram of a garden, as it exists on the ground, not the
plan for a hypothetical plan for one. Varieties followed by an asterisk (*) are ones not found listed in the American
Rose Society’s Modern Roses. Compiled and submitted by George Stritikus.
"myrtle from Charleston"
"Juled Margottin (probably Jeweled Margottin, a rose, 1853)
"Devonensis" (Tea rose - 1838)
"Lion de Combalts (rose *)
"Jacque Lafitte" (rose *)
“pittosporum variegated"
"chinese arbovitae"
"American arbovitae"
"Cupressed funebres - Weeping Cypress"
"Devonensis" (rose)
"La Reine" (probably La Reine Francais, Hybrid Perpetual, 1842)
"Souv. de la Reine D'Anteterre" (rose *)
"Caroline de Sansal" (Hybrid Perpetual, 1849)
"Triomphe de Orleans" (probably NOT Triomphe Orleanais 1912, otherwise *)
"Triomphe de L 'Exposition" (Hybrid Perpetual, 1855)
"Enfant de Mt. Carmel" (rose *)
"Louise Odier" (Bourbon, 1851)
"Lydonie" (rose *)
"Palais de Crystal" (rose *)
"cape jasmine"
"pittosporum variegated"
"American Arbovitae"
"spirea"
"Aurora" (rose)
"Ducheffse D'Orleans" (rose)
"Safrona" (probably means Safrano - Tea rose, 1839)
"Spirea reevssi" (reeves spirea)
"George IV" (called Rivers' Geo. IV, Hybrid China, 1820)
"La Marque" (probably Lamarque, a noisette rose, 1830)
"Adam Rose" (probably Adam, a Tea rose, 1833)
Added notes in margin -"wild holly", "bay bush", "wild shrub"
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