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the grand Floral Temple, in raising the first plant 

 known under the name which heads this article. 

 The original rose was grown in Charleston, South 

 Carolina, by Mr. Koisette, about the year 1815, 

 and sent by him to his brother, then a nurseryman 

 in Paris. It created a great excitement among the 

 Parisian rose fanciers, and is supposed to have 

 been a production of the common China Eose and 

 White Musk cluster. Since its introduction, 

 thousands have been raised and hybridized from 

 it, till the progeny has become so much amalga- 

 mated with the Tea, Bengal, and Bourbon Koses, 

 that the division, I may say, is not to be recog- 

 nized. We often see a new sort named Tea, which, 

 afer being fully tested, proves to have the habit 

 of a Noisette, of which the leading feature is the 

 clustering of its buds and flowers ; it is also either 

 always of a dwarf or a rampant habit. They are 

 generally in this latitude perfectly hardy ; all are 

 so in the South, and few or none hardy enough to 

 bear the rigor of our Eastern or Northern States. 

 The profusion and perpetual succession of their 

 flowers, produced in immense clusters, frequently 

 from fifty to one hundred in each, make them su- 

 perbly ornamental objects, calculated for columns, 

 pillars, fences, or trellis work. Although hardy 

 here, they still are benefited by a light protection 



