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with a delicate pink centre, quite fragrant, and has 

 been classed among the "Thes." The Noisette Roses 

 have become so much impreguated with the varie- 

 ties of Rosa Odorata, that many of the sort, when 

 they bloom for the first time, are denominated " The ' 

 roses, but their farther growth and subsequent bloom 

 bring them under the head of Noisettes, from their ten- 

 dency to produce their flowers in large clusters. 

 Jaune Desprez, Desprez D^Arcoh^ and French Yellow 

 Xoisette^ are the same. It enjoys a celebrity which 

 few of its tribe have attained for hardiness, rapidity 

 of growth, fragrance, and, when well established, for 

 profusion of flowers, which it produces in large clus- 

 ters. The colour is a rosy-buff inclining to orange, 

 and perfectly double. It should always be planted 

 where it will be under the eye, as its colour does not 

 make it a remarkable object from a distance, a quali- 

 fication which Fellenberg possesses in the most emi- 

 nent degree. Jeanne (T Arc^ a strong grower, of a 

 pure white colour, very fragrant, flowers rather small 

 for the habit of the plant. Julia or Julia Dante, is 

 a pretty, pale, sweet scented variety, though ver}^ like 

 Conque de Venus j it is yet quite distinct in habit, 

 and the flowers have a little more of the blush in 

 them. Julia de Loy?ies has been, and is still consid- 

 ered by some, as a Bourbon rose ; its foliage does in- 

 cline a little to that family, but the flowers have all 



