166 Rosacee— Rosa. 
Philippe Noisette, who sent it to France in 1814.! This Rose 
is a shrub 5 to 10 feet high, armed with strong hooked thorns ; 
Fig. 91. Woisette Rose, (4 nat. size.) 
leaves glabrous, shining, usually composed of seven ovate-acute 
finely-toothed leaflets. The flowers, in the typical variety at 
least, are of medium size, numerous and double, bright rose 
and scented. But since its introduction into Europe, fecun- 
dated by itself or other species, it has given birth to a multi- 
tude of new varieties, in which the primitive type is more or 
less changed. In some the flowers are solitary at the extremity 
of the branches, and in others they are clustered; and in 
colour they vary from white and yellow to crimson, with every 
intermediate tinge. Few roses offer more decided evidence of 
hybridity. Among the white or flesh-coloured varieties we 
may adduce the followiny: Atinée Vibert, Endorie, Labiche, 
Lumearque, Madame Deslongschamps. Yellow varieties: Solfa- 
terre, Ophirie, Després, Marie Chargé, Buphrosine, Chroma- 
telle. Rose or carmine: Bouga/urille. Most of the foregoing 
varieties still hold their place in the garden; but there have 
1 It is, moreover, not impossible that the Noisette Rose was the result of a 
cross betwecn the Tea Rose and an American species, R. setiyera, of which we 
shall speak further on. The climbing habit of many Roses thrown into this cless 
supports this supposition. 
