148 THE NOISETTE ROSE. 



marque, with its pale, straw-coloured flowers, and 

 Phaloe, with pale, flesh-coloured, fawn -tinted 

 flowers, are of this race, and two fine roses. To 

 the former we owe that most glorious of all yel- 

 low roses (when in perfection), the Cloth of Gold, 

 or Chromatella. Even at this distance of time I 

 have not forgotten the delight I felt on seeing 

 this rose in full bloom at Angers in 1843. Its 

 flowers were like large golden bells. The tree 

 was a standard trained to a wall, and each flower 

 was pendulous so that their bright yellow centres 

 were most conspicuous. Although twenty years 

 have since elapsed, no yellow rose has approached 

 in beauty this grand and remarkable variety. It 

 is true we have had new yellow Noisette Roses in 

 abundance, all of which were to outshine my old 

 favourite ; but they have all sunk into mediocrity, 

 and we have yet to gain a rose from seed equal to 

 the Cloth of Gold in form and colour, and as 

 hardy and free blooming as Gloire de Dijon. 

 With Chromatella I introduced in 1843 Solfaterre, 

 a rose of the same parentage, and almost its equal 

 in beauty ; it is, however, more free in giving its 

 flowers. Augusta, an American rose, is so much 

 like Solfaterre as not to be distinguished from it 

 by any ordinary observer. Ophirie is a bright 

 fawn, or perhaps copper-coloured rose, tinted with 

 salmon sometimes, in autumn very pretty. A 

 new rose of this class of colour, Marie Charge, 

 more yellow in its tint than Ophirie, and shaded 



