342 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICU 
Flowers red, usually semidouble; April to November. Fruit red; ripe 
in September. 
One of the most valuable of garden roses. 
Varieties. There are numerous varieties and hybrids of this beautiful rose. 
The following are quite distinct ; and may each be considered the type of 
a long list of subvarieties : — 
a R. i. 2 Noisettiana Ser. in Dec. Prod.ii. p.600., Don’s Mill. ii. p. 581.3 
Jig. 609. above. — Stem firm, and, as well as the branches, prickly. 
Stipules nearly entire. Flowers panicled, very numerous, semi- 
double, pale red. Styles exserted. Raised in North America, from an 
accidental cross between A. indica and &. moschata, and the plants 
being sold to Philip Noisette, his name was given to this variety. 
It was first brought to England by Mr. Fraser. This well-known 
and very beautiful rose is almost invaluable in a shrubbery, from its 
free and vigorous growth, and the profusion of its flowers, which are 
continually being produced during the whole summer. Numerous 
subvarieties have been raised of the Noisette rose, some of the 
most distinct of which are, the R. i. N. purpurca of Redouté, which 
has red flowers; R.i. NM. nivea, the Aimé Vitert of the French 
nurseries, which has double white flowers ; R. 2. 
N. Smithi, Smith’s yellow Noisette rose, the 
flowers of which are very double, of a deeper 
yellow than the double yellow China rose (R. i. 
ochroleiica), and disposed in clustered corymbs 
of from 10 to 22, and are highly fragrant. , 
#& R. i. 3 odoratissima Lindl. Ros. p.106., Bot. Reg. 
t. 864., Don’s Mill. ii. p. 582.; R. odoratissima 
Swt. Hort. Sub. Lond.; R. indica fragrans Red. 
Ros. i. p. 6. t.19.; and our fig. 610.; the 
sweetest, or tea-scented, China Rose ; Rose a 
QOdeur de Thé, Fr.; has semidouble flowers, f{\V y 
of a most delicious fragrance, strongly resembling i 
the scent of the finest green tea. There are 615. R.i, odorattssima. 
numerous subvarieties. 
a R. i, 4 longifolia Lindl. Ros. p. 106. ; 2. longi- 
folia Willd. Enum. ii. 1079., Red Ros. ii. t. 27.3 
R. semperflorens var.7. N. Du Ham. vii. p. 22. ; 
R. salicifolia Hort.; and our fig. 611.; has the 
ae nearly unarmed, and long lanceolate leaf- 
ets. 
& R. i. 5 pumila Lindl. Ros. p. 106. is a dwarf 
variety, with purplish flowers, having ovate 
petals, 
2% R. i. 6 caryophillea Red. Ros. iii. p. 59. has the 
flowers in a kind of panicle, and the leaflets 
large and thin. 
x R. i, 7 pannosa Red. has the stems and branches 
prickly ; the leaflets ovate, and red beneath, with 
the stipules so finely denticulated as to give 
them somewhat of a fringed or pannose appear- 
ance. Flowers drooping a little, purple on the 
outside, and with the inner petals rose-coloured. 
x R. i. 8 cruénta Red., and Don’s Mill. ii. p. 582.; 
differing from the above principally in having 
611. R. i, longifolia the stems and branches almost unarmed, and the 
stipules almost entire. 
& R. i. 9 Fraseriana Hort. Brit. p.211., and Don’s Mill. ii. p. 582.— A 
hybrid, with double pink flowers. 
