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MUSK-SCENTED EOSES, ETC. lApnl 



wlien perfect, and is quite a dwarf, having very little 

 of the Noisette character, but delightfully scented. 



Luxembourg, fine rosy purple, very perfect, a free grower 

 and fragrant. 



Maria, dark rose, perfect form, rapid grower. 



Ophire, orange yellow tinged with red, very double, a free 

 grower, fragrant, very distinct. 



Orloff, bright pink, large and showy, though not very dou- 

 ble — a profuse bloomer when well established — is a 

 very strong grower, and excellent for covering arbors 

 or trellises. 



Phaloe, rosy pink, large, fully cupped flower. 



Solfatare, sulphur yellow, large and perfectly double, a strong 



grower, very fragrant, when well established blooming 



profusely. 



Superba, delicate pink, an old rose, perfectly double, blooms 

 in large clusters; is of strong habit, and flowers pro- 

 fusely. This, with Noisette Lee, are our two best 

 old Noisette Roses. 



Yitellina, pure white, cupped form, very double. 



Washington, pure white, a strong grower. 



MUSK-SCENTED HOSES (ROSA MOSCHATA). 



The white musk-scented cluster rose is one of the oldest 

 inhabitants of the rose garden, and is known all over the 

 earth, where the rose has been cultivated, or its name been 

 heard. It is supposed that it is the famed rose of the Per- 

 sian poets. Although there are several varieties under this 

 head, very few of them, indeed, have that peculiar fragrance 

 which the genuine old species possesses. They require simi- 

 lar treatment to the Bourbon and Noisette Roses, and, in 

 fact, fanciers have been, if possible, too minute to sepa- 

 rate this group from the Noisette Roses, merely because they 

 are, in some degree, musk-scented. 



Old musk cluster, yellowish white, expanded and semi-double, 

 blooms in immense clusters and finely scented. 



Herbemonte, pure white, very large flower in fine clusters. 



Princesse de Nassau, creamy white, perfectly double, very 

 fragrant, and blooms in large clusters. 



