ROSES I:N^ GEiq^EEAL CULTIVAT102S". 29 



Among the true Noisettes, Aimee Yibei-t 

 (Scandens) is decidedly tlie most valuable ; the 

 flowers are small but pure white, sufficiently full, 

 of beautiful form ; the foliage is a dark lustrous 

 green ; growth vigorous. Others belonging to 

 this division are Admiral Rigney or Eugene 

 Pirolle, Beauty of Greenmount, Caroline Mar- 

 niesse, Fellenberg, Ophirie, Pumila, Washington, 

 Woodland Marguerite. None of these will have 

 interest for small cultivators, excepting perhaps 

 Pumila, and this is somewhat more tender than 

 the rest. Among the Tea-scented Noisettes we 

 have some superb roses, which have far more 

 substance, and are much more beautiful, than 

 those named above, albeit less hardy. They 

 make magnificent chmbers under glass, and some 

 of them succeed fairly well at the Nortli out of 

 doors, if given sheltered positions. In the 

 Southern States they are by far the finest climb- 

 ers that can be grown. Marechal Niel, which is 

 said to have been raised from Isabella Gray, ac- 

 cording to general opinion, is at once the best 

 Noisette, the finest yellow, and the most beauti- 

 ful variety of any class that has ever been sent 

 out. Chromatella is another superb yellow, in 



