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the character and habit of Noisette, to which I consi- 

 der it to belong ', its colour is of a delicate blush 

 white ; flowers above medium size, double and finely- 

 scented j the habit is very strong, (though not of rapid 

 growth,) giving a profusion of bloom the whole sea- 

 son. La Biche is still a good rose when first open, of 

 a pale blush colour, though almost instantly changing 

 to pure vv^hite; rather large and double; it is an ex- 

 cellent pillar rose, of free growth, and is frequently 

 sold for Lamarque. Lactans^ as its name implies, is 

 a milky white, so pure that I do not remember having 

 seen any rose of so delicate a white. I received it a 

 few years ago as a Tea, but it now ranks among the 

 Noisette, and with the dwarf varieties. Its flowers, 

 which it produces very freely, are very large and ex- 

 tremely double. La Kymiphe^ a beautiful blush pink, 

 quite double, a profuse bloomer, of medium growth. 

 Lamarque ; this is a celebrated variety, now known 

 over the whole country for its magnificent, large, per- 

 fectly double, yellowish-white, pendulous flowers, 

 which it produces in clusters of three to ten in each. 

 In good dry rich soils it will grow twenty feet in a 

 season, and one of my correspondents in South Caro- 

 lina informs me, that their plant, now eight years 

 old, covers a veranda fifty feet long and twenty feet 

 high, and is one mass of flowers from May to Decem- 

 ber. There is also a plant in this city, that occupies 



