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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICU 



Flowers red, usually semidouble ; April to November. Fruit red ; ripe 



in September. 



One of the most valuable of garden roses. 



Varieties. There are numerous varieties and hybrids of this beautiful rose. 

 The following are quite distinct ; and may each be considered the type of 

 a long list of subvarieties : 



$ R. i. 2 Noisettiana Ser. in Dec. Prod.ii. p. 600., Don's Mill. ii. p. 581. ; 

 fig. 609. above. Stem firm, and, as well as the branches, prickly. 

 Stipules nearly entire. Flowers panicled, very numerous, semi- 

 double, pale red. Styles exserted. Raised in North America, from an 

 accidental cross between R. indica and R. moschata, and the plants 

 being sold to Philip Noisette, his name was given to this variety. 

 It was first brought to England by Mr. Fraser. This well-known 

 and very beautiful rose is almost invaluable in a shrubbery, from its 

 free and vigorous growth, and the profusion of its flowers, which are 

 continually being produced during the whole summer. Numerous 

 subvarieties have been raised of the Noisette rose, some of the 

 most distinct of which are, the R. i. W. purpurca of Redoute, which 

 has red flowers ; R. i. N. nwea, the Aime Vilert of the French 

 nurseries, which has double white flowers ; R. ?'. 

 N. Smfthtt, Smith's yellow Noisette rose, the 

 flowers of which are very double, of a deeper 

 yellow than the double yellow China rose (R. i. 

 ochroleuca), and disposed in clustered corymbs 

 of from 10 to 22, and are highly fragrant. 

 & R. i. 3 odoratissima Lindl. Ros. p. 106., Bot. Reg. 

 t. 864., Don's Mill. ii. p. 582. ; R. odoratissima 

 Swt. Hort. Sub. Land. ; R. indica fragrans Red. 

 Ros. i. p. 6. t. 19. ; and our fig. 610. ; the 

 sweetest, or tea-scented, China Rose ; Rose a 

 Odeur de The, Fr. ; has semidouble flowers, 

 of a most delicious fragrance, strongly resembling 

 the scent of the finest green tea. There are 

 numerous subvarieties. 



R. i. 4 longlfolia Lindl. Ros. p. 

 folia Willd. Enum. ii. 1079., Red Ros. ii. t. 27. ; 

 R. semperflorens var.7. N.Du Ham. vii. p. 22. ; 

 R. salicifolia Hort. ; and our Jig. 611.; has the 

 stems nearly unarmed, and long lanceolate leaf- 

 lets. 



R. i. 5 pumila Lindl. Ros. p. 106. is a dwarf 

 variety, with purplish flowers, having ovate 

 petals. 



R. i. 6 caryophyllea Red. Ros. iii. p. 59. has the 

 flowers in a kind of panicle, and the leaflets 

 large and thin. 



R. i. 7 pannosa Red. has the stems and branches 

 prickly ; the leaflets ovate, and red beneath, with 

 the stipules so finely denticulated as to give 

 them somewhat of a fringed or pannose appear- 

 ance. Flowers drooping a little, purple on the 

 outside, and with the inner petals rose-coloured. 

 R. i. 8 cruenta Red., and Don's Mill. ii. p. 582. ; 

 differing from the above principally in having 

 the stems and branches almost unarmed, and the 

 stipules almost entire. 



R. i. 9 Frasenana Hort. Brit. p. 21 1., and Don's Mill. ii. p. 582. A 

 hybrid, with double pink flowers. 



R. i. odovatissim*. 



106. : R. lom-i- 



