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30. Creeping Noisette Rose. 



Branches, very long, creeping, armed with close thorns. 

 Leafstalks, short. 



Leaflets, seven or nine ; rounded, plane. 

 Flowers, double, middle-sized; pure white; united in 

 clusters to the number of from five to twenty. 



31. Ranunculus Noisette Rose. 



Flowers, very double, pretty, shaped like a ranuncu- 

 lus ; flesh-coloured at first, white after expansion. 



32. Muscate Pcrpetuelle. 



Shrub, pretty vigorous. 



Branches, spreading, glossy, not very thorny. 

 Flowers, small, double, fragrant ; of a yellowish white, 

 appearing throughout the summer. 



PINK OR FLESH-COLOURED FLOWERS. 



33. Flesh-coloured Noisette Rose. 



Shrub, very vigorous. 



Branches, glossy and flexile, armed with large strong 

 thorns. 



Leaflets, oval, near together, pointed or acuminated; 

 of a delicate green. 



Tube of ca'i/x; oval-fusiform. 



Flowers, middle-sized, regular, very double, flesh- 

 coloured. 



Styles, smooth, from twenty to forty. 



This shrub, sent from Charlestown by Philip Noi- 

 sette, is the type on which the species Noisettiana was 



founded by Bosc and Pronville. 



34. Noisette Cliamnagagna Rose, (from 



America.) 

 Shrub, having a purple bark. 



