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CHA*. 



nearly evergreen Roses, blooming in clusters. The 

 flowers are naturally quite small, but almost all of them 

 have been further crossed with the Tea race, which has 

 had the effect of much increasing the size and beauty 

 of the blooms, but at the same time rendering the plants 

 less hardy and more liable to injury from frost. The 

 true Noisette is itself said to be a hybrid between the 

 Musk and Tea or China Roses, so that it seems difficult 

 to decide what is a pure Noisette. Of those mentioned 

 in the N.R.S. Catalogue, Aimee VIbert and Ophirie 

 show less of the Tea cross than the others. 



The true and Bybrid Noisettes have a characteristic 

 custom, which is shared by the Gloire de Dijon race, of 

 blooming from nearly all the buds of the long secondary 

 shoots of the previous year, which should be left with 

 only the tips shortened. Mam* of these will hardly 

 bloom at all if closely pruned. 



The Teas, that is, Roses of the true Tea-scented 

 China group, are especially liable to the following bad 

 manners : impatience of frost, of rain, and of being 

 grown as dwarfs. But these are more than counter- 

 balanced by their good qualities, viz. being generally 

 freer in the summer from mildew than the H.P.s and 

 entirely exempt from orange fungus, nearly all free 

 bloomers and the best of autumnals, lasting better than 

 H.P.s, and thriving better than they do on light soil. 

 All the Teas and Noisettes require dryness and warmth 

 in the soil as well as the air : thorough drainage is a 

 first essential, and strong heavy land, such as is most 

 loved by the majority of H.P.s, is not so much appreciated 

 as that which is at the same time highly enriched and 

 thoroughly porous. 



Adam (Adam, 1833). — Syn. President (Paul & Son, 

 1860). Of poor growth and small reputation. The 



