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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 hy- 

 bridized 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 recog- 

 nized. 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 cluster- 

 ing 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 ol 

 our Eastern or Northern States. The profusion and 

 perpetual succession of their flowers produced in im- 

 mense clusters, frequently from fifty to one hundred 

 in each, make them superbly ornamental objects, 

 calculated for columns, pillars, fences, or trellis work. 

 Although hardy here, they still are benefitted b}* a 

 light protection of straw, mats, litter, or branches, 

 which should be gradually removed in the spring 



