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ng and blooming, if kept in order under proper protection ; and are 

 not deciduous. 



The Noisette Rose. 



The distinguishing ckaracter of this Rose is that it flowers in 

 bunches, and this ought to be the character of every one added to the 

 family. Bat here we have Lamarque, which is anything but a Noi- 

 sette ; it does not flower in bunches, unless every Rose which has two 

 or three flowers on a stem is to be called Noisette ; and Smith's Yel- 

 low Noisette is about as much entitled to the name of Lamarque. But 

 they are not alone ; too many which have no claim on the family have 

 nevertheless been forced on them. 



The Musk Rose 



This is an old favorite, and many which nave been supposed to 

 come from its seed are fastened on it as a family, and many not very 

 like the parent. The family, like some of the others, is greatly con- 

 fused, and there is nothing so distinct as to connect it as a separate 

 class. 



The Macartney Roea. 



The characteristic of this Rose is its very bright thick evergreen 

 foliage, and therefore any other Hybrid Roses which have that char- 

 acteristic might, according to other classifications, be put among 

 these. Maria Leonida is perhaps the best of them ; Rosa berberifolia 

 hardii, of whose origin Mr. Rivers makes a sad muddle, is classed with 

 this family. Mr. Rivers' story is, that " Rosa hardii was raised from 

 seed by Mons. Hardy, of the Luxembourg Gardens, from Rosa involu- 

 cre, a variety of Rosa bractcata, fertilised with that unique rose, Rosa 

 berberifolia which was very frequently exported from Persia, and comes 

 always true to the parent; some of the Persian seed was sent to 

 Mons. Hardy, and from that he, like others, raised the true Rosa ber- 

 berifolia, which Mr. Lee, of the Hammersmith Nursery, raised from 

 Persian seed likewise, more than twenty years before Mr. Hardy was 

 a rose raiser at all." Well may Mr. Rivers say, in continuation, "This 

 curious hybrid, like its Persian parent, has single yellow flowers, with 

 a dark eye, and evergreen foliage." The fertilising part of the busi 



