268 The Rose Amateur^ s Guide. 



Noisette Jaime Desprez and Lamarqiie. — We notice the 

 latter variety again in order to show the opinions of two 

 cultivators respecting the best mode of cultivating this fine 

 rose : — 



Jaiine Desprez, or the new French Yellow Noisette, is a well-known 

 and much esteemed Rose : as a pillar or a standard it is equally beautiful ; 

 its fragrance is also very remarkable. This was originated by M. Des- 

 prez about fifteen years since, and is still, and will be for some time to 

 come, a very popular rose. It is, most probably, a hybrid between the 

 Yellow Tea and a Noisette Rose of some kind : it sold for a high price in 

 France, when first sent forth to the rose world, as its name was very 

 tempting, for a Yellow Fragrant Noisette Rose was thought to be worth 

 any price. The name, like many other floral names, was, certainly, quite 

 calculated to make an impression. Its rosy copper-colored flowers are 

 very singular, and so powerfully fragrant that one plant will perfume a 

 large garden in the cool weather of autumn. A pillar of this rose, twelve 

 or twenty feet high, would be a grand object on a well-kept lawn. La- 

 marque is another hybrid Noisette, approaching to the Tea-scented Rose 

 in the size and fragrance of its flowers. This is a most vigorous grower, 

 but not quite so hardy as Jaune Desprez. As a standard it is quite su- 

 perb, for its large pale sulphur-colored or nearly white flowers are pendant 

 from their weight, and have a fine effect. It is rather impatient of cold, 

 and will not bloom unless budded on some strong-growing rose : on its 

 own root it is a weak grower, and scarcely like the same rose when grafted 

 and grown vigorously. — Id. pp. 167 and 168. 



Mr. Bnist states that it does best on its oivn 7-oots, while 

 Mr. Rivers here tells us that it will not flourish unless bed- 

 ded upon some vigorous stock ; this discrepancy can only 

 be accounted for in the great difference of climate : that of 

 England being too humid and cold. Jaune Desprez and 

 Lamarque are yet two of the best Noisette roses that have 

 been produced. 



We might follow Mr. Rivers much farther, and give 

 many mere extracts ; but we have already extended our 

 allotted space, and for the present submit the information 

 we have gleaned from these volumes, trusting to renew the 

 subject again in a series of communications in our next 

 volume. 



Art. II. The Neiv England Fruit Book. Being a de- 

 scriptive Catalogne of the most valuable varieties of Pear, 

 Ap})le, Peachy Plum, and Cherry, for New England 

 Culture. By Robert Manning. To ivhich is added oth- 

 er varieties ; also the Grape, Quince, Gooseberry, Cur- 



