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Magdalena, née Dzieduszycka, Countess Morska (1762–1847) established in the 1820’s a romantic garden at her estate in Zarzecze, which is well known to garden historians. The park has thus far been the subject of analysis because of the characteristic layout of the palace, designed by P.Ch. Aigner, and also because of the wide range of social changes introduced by Morska around the whole village of Zarzecze. Previous analyses have been concerned with the collection of plants gathered at Zarzecze. These were based on Countess Morska’s 1838 garden notes which have survived at the Ossolineum collection in Wrocław, and also in the text accompanying the published illustrations in her Collection of Pictures from the early 1830’s. From these materials one can describe the dendrological collection gathered by Morska. This collection, while similar to the other dendrological collections at Krzemieniec, Łańcut, Medyka, Niedźwiedź and Puławy, whose owners she remained in constant contact, but had a special character. For example it was Poland’s first great collection of roses. Morska collected more than 150 roses, of which 140 were cultivars, mainly of French origin. In a large scale sowing program she named the first two well known Polish cultivars of ornamental shrub – Rosa ‘Józef Dzieduszycki’ and Rosa ‘Laurenti Dzieduszyck'.
Published in "ROCZNIK POLSKIEGO TOWARZYSTWA DENDROLOGICZNEGO", Vol. 61, 2013, pp 53-69
