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Floral Temple, in raising the first plant known 

 under the name which heads this article. The 

 original rose was grown in Charleston, South 

 Carolina, by Mr. Noisette, about the year 1815, 

 and sent by him to his brother, then a nurseryman 

 in Paris. It created a great excitement among the 

 Parisian rose fanciers, and is supposed to have been 

 a production of the common China Rose and White 

 Musk Cluster. Since its introduction thousands have 

 been raised and hybridized from it, till the progeny 

 has become so much amalgamated with the Tea, 

 Bengal, and Bourbon Roses, that the division, I may 

 say, is not to be recognized. We often see a new 

 sort named Tea, which, after being fully tested 

 proves to have the habit of a Noisette, of which 

 the leading feature is the clustering of its buds and 

 flowers ; it is also either always of a dwarf or a 

 rampant habit. They are generally in this latitude 

 perfectly hardy; all are so in the south, and few or 

 none hardy enough to bear the rigour of our 

 Eastern or Northern States. The profusion and 

 perpetual succession of their flowers produced in 

 immense clusters, frequently from fifty to one hun- 

 dred in each, makes them superbly ornamental 

 objects, calculated for columns, pillars, fences, or 

 trellis work. Although hardy here, they still are 

 benefited by a light protection of straw, mats, lit- 

 ter, or branches, which should be gradually re- 



