74 MUSK-SCENTED ROSES, ETC. {April. 
■when 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. 
Orlofif, 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 arbours 
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 Hoses. 
Vitellina, pure white, cupped form, very double. 
Washington, pure white, a strong grower. 
MUSK-SCENTED ROSES (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 Hoses, 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. 
Princess de Nassau, creamy white, perfectly double, very 
fragrant, and blooms in large clusters. 
