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America by Monsieur Philippe Noisette, and 

 sent by him to his brother, Monsieur Louis Noi- 

 sette, the well-known nurseryman at Paris, in the 

 year 1817. Perhaps no new rose was ever so 

 much admired as this. When first introduced, 

 its habit was so peculiar, and so unlike any other 

 known variety, that the Parisian amateurs were 

 quite enraptured with it. It was produced from 

 the seed of the old Musk Rose (Rosa moschata), 

 the flowers of which had been fertilised with 

 the common China Rose. The perfume of the 

 Musk Rose is very apparent : its tendency to 

 bloom in large clusters also shows its affinity to 

 that old and very remarkable rose, but since its 

 introduction to France so many 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 the characters of the group ; for, 

 in proportion as the size of the flowers have been 

 increased by hybridising, their clustering tendency 

 and the number of them in one corymb has been 

 diminished. Among the varieties most deserving 

 of notice is Aimee Vibert, or "Rosa nivea," a 

 seedling from the Rosa sempervivens plena, which 

 it resembles, but much surpasses its parent in the 

 valuable quality of autumnal blooming. Nothing 

 can be prettier than a large plant of Aimee Vibert 

 Noisette, covered with its snow-white flowers, in 

 September and October. Andreselle is a fine 

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