134 TEA-SCENTED CHINA ROSE. 



fragrant flowers are quite unique, and add much 

 to the variety and beauty of the autumnal rose 

 garden. 



Moire, a pale flesh-coloured rose, tinted with 

 fawn, is very double and fine ; it is one of the 

 largest roses of this class. Devoniensis, the only 

 Tea-scented Rose ever raised in England, is still 

 unrivalled : its creamy white flowers, with their 

 delicate rose tint, are always beautiful. Among 

 these almost white roses Madame Willermoz is 

 very fine ; its flowers are slightly tinted in the 

 centre with salmon ; it is one of the most robust 

 and hardy of Tea Eoses. ^Nlarie Ducher and 

 Mphetos are two nearly pure white roses of first- 

 rate excellence. Louise de Savoie, a large and 

 fine rose, and Xarcisse, the latter an improv^ement 

 on Pactolus, are beautiful yellow roses. So far 

 we have gone through the shades of colour in 

 this class, leaving only that remarkable class of 

 which Safrano is the type : the buds of this rose, 

 as is well known, are of a deep fawn before expan- 

 sion, and the)i very beautiful ; but they soon fade 

 on opening and lose all their beauty. In this 

 class of roses a variety, exhibited in 1853, in 

 Paris, raised at Dijon, and called Gloire de Dijon, 

 is a gTeat acquisition ; its flowers are as large 

 and as durable as those of the Bourbon Souvenir 

 de la ]\lalmaison, which they much resemble in 

 shape ; but their colour, nearly as deep as the 

 buds of Safrano, is most striking ; its foliage is 



