76 NOISETTE ROSES. [April. 



Marechal Bugeaud, bright waxy rose. 



Melville, flesh colour, a strong grower. 



Moire, rose and blush, beautifully cup-formed, very perfect, 

 and proves to be a fine grower. 



Nephitos, pure white, very large, quite distinct. 



Odorata, or common tea rose, fine blush, very large cupped 

 petals, delightfully scented, and everywhere admired, 

 and is the foundation of this sweet-scented family. 



Princess Marie, flesh colour, a most superb rose of first-rate 

 merit, perfectly double, and finely scented ; when well 

 grown, will have flowers about five inches in diameter. 



Safrano, when the bud first opens it is of a fine saffron colour, 

 very pretty. 



Strombio, creamy white, perfectly double, large and globular. 



Triomphe du Luxembourg, yellow flesh or copper colour, ex- 

 tremely large and perfectly double j is a rampant 

 grower, has a most splendid bud. 



Victorie modesta, blush, cupped, very large and double 



NOISETTE ROSES. 



It is a remarkable fact, that the original of this famous 

 group of roses originated in Charleston, South Carolina, 

 with Mr. Noisette, about 1815, who sent it to his brother, 

 the well-known nurseryman, at Paris (France). It was sup- 

 posed to be produced between the white musk, cluster, and 

 the common China rose, and created a very great excitement 

 among the Parisian florists and amateurs ; but, since its in- 

 troduction to France, thousands of seedlings have been raised 

 from it, and so many of these are evidently hybrids, of the 

 tea-scented and other roses, that some of the roses, called 

 " Noisettes," have almost lost every character of the division. 

 They are generally hardy plants, requiring rich soil and a 

 routine of treatment similar to the "Isle de Bourbon Roses." 

 They will amply repay for extra attention to their culture. 

 The great profusion and perpetual succession of flowers from 

 June till November, of immense clusters, frequently from 

 fifty to one hundred in each, make them truly ornamental 

 objects, and are well calculated for covering fences, pillars, 

 or trellis work. Although they are hardy, they will be bene- 

 fited by i light covering of mate or litter : tfouth of this, 



