CATALOGUE OF ROSES. 9 


growth, with rich, luxuriant foliage, and are the most beautiful in the Autumn. The 
flowers for the most part are produced in clusters, and are generally of light color, 
well shaped and somewhat fragrant. The moderate growers are mostly suitable for 
low beds on the lawn. Owing to hybridization with other classes, the varieties differ 
very greatly in their characteristics. Ad/ are on their own roots. 
Noisette cr Champney Roses. 
(RosA MOSCHATA HYBRIDA.) 
The Noisette Rose is a product of America, and obtains its name from Phillippe 
Noisette, a florist from Charleston, South Carolina. 
John Champney, of Charleston, from the seed of the White Musk Rose, fertilized 
by the Blush China, raised a variety which was called Champney’s Pink Cluster. A 
few years after this, Phillippe Noisette, from the seed of Champney’s Pink Cluster, 
raised the Blush Noisette, and this he sent to his brother, Louis Noisette, of Paris, 
under the name of Noisette Rose. The true name, therefore, for this class, should be 
the Champney, but the change cannot now be made. 
This group is naturally of vigorous growth, nearly hardy, and produces large 
clusters of flowers ; but, through hybridization with the Tea section, the original 
characteristics have, in part, disappeared. The varieties now generally grown are 
less hardy, and have partially lost the clustering tendency ; but the flowers have 
much more substance and are far more beautiful. As they now exist, they are 
valuable as Sarmentous or Pillar Roses in sheltered positions, and particularly so 
under glass. Nothing can be finer than a wall covered with Lamarque or Cloth of 
Gold. The leaflets are five to seven in number. All are on their own roots. 
Tea Roses. 
(Rosa INDICA ODORATA.) 
All are on their own roots. ° : 
The Tea Rose may well be taken as a synonym for all that is delicately beautiful. 
What refinement of color, what subdued yet powerful fragrance do they possess ! 
They may justly be called the sweetest of all Roses. The flowers, many of them, are 
large and very delicate in their shades of colors, such as white, straw, salmon, and 
various tints of, rose combined with these. While, as a rule, they are inferior to the 
Hybrid Perpetuals in brilliancy of color and fullness of flower, the distinctions be- 
tween varieties is equally marked, and for bouquets and cut flowers they greatly ex- 
cel all other classes. Like other tender Roses their flowers improve in quality as the 
season advances, and reach perfection in Autumn. In judging the merits of a Tea 
Rose we do not always consider fullness of flowers a requisite. A Hybrid Perpetual is 
nothing if not at least moderately full, but some of our most valued Teas have but 
very few petals, and are comparatively single. Such are Bon Silene, Isabella Sprunt, 
Safrano, etc. All these have exquisitely formed buds, and are therefore prized as in- 
valuable. The Teas are more tender than any of the other classes, and need a little 
more care in their protection. We have rejected all varieties that are of feeble growth 
(excepting Niphetos,) and unhealthy habit, retaining only such as combine beauty of 
flower with good constitution. 
