32— ROSA CHINENSIS x MOSCHATA Koehne 
(ROSA NOISETTIANA Redoute) 
Rosa chinensis x moschata : caulibus longis, arcuatis vel sarmentosis ; aculeis 
sparsis, robustis, falcatis, conformibus ; foliolis 5-7 , oblongis, acutis, magnitudine 
mediocribus, simpliciter serratis, viridibus, facie glabris, dorso leviter pubescentibus ; 
rhachi pubescente,aciculata; stipulis angustis, adnatis, apicibus parvis, liberis, ovatis; 
floribus multis, corymbosis, plenis, magnitudine mediocribus, albis vel rubellis ; 
pedicellis nudis ; calycis tubo turbinato, nudo ; lobis parvis, simplicibus, ovato- 
cuspidatis, dorso nudis; stylis pubescentibus, leviter coalitis, protrusis; fructu parvo, 
rubro, globoso, nudo ; sepalis patulis, caducis. 
R. chinensis x moschata Koehne, Deutsche Dendrol. p. 279 (1893). 
R. Noisettiana Thory in Redoute, Roses , vol. ii. p. 77, t. (1821). 
R. indica , var. Noisettiana Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. vol. ii. p. 600 (1825). 
— Loudon, Arboretum , vol. ii. p. 770, fig. 505 (1838). 
Stems tall, arching or sarmentose ; prickles stout, hooked, uniform, scattered. 
Leaflets 5-7, oblong, acute, middle-sized, simply toothed, green, glabrous on the 
upper surface, slightly pubescent beneath ; petioles pubescent and aciculate ; stipules 
narrow, adnate, with small, ovate, free tips. Flowers many (up to 20-30) in a corymb, 
double, middle-sized, white or pink ; pedicels naked. Calyx-tube turbinate, naked ; 
lobes small, simple, ovate-cuspidate, naked on the back. Styles pubescent, loosely 
coherent, protruded beyond the disc. Fndt rarely produced, small, red, globose, 
naked ; sepals spreading, deciduous. 
This Rose is generally believed to have been raised at Charleston, 
South Carolina, in 1816 by Philippe Noisette, a French florist, who 
sent it to Paris to his brother, Louis Noisette, with whom it flowered 
for the first time in the year 1818. John Champney, another nursery- 
man of Charleston, likewise claimed to have raised it. His version 
was that he raised the first cross between Rosa chinensis and Rosa 
moschata , the result being Champney’s Pink Cluster ; from this seedling 
Philippe Noisette then raised the Blush Noisette, and this was the plant 
sent to Louis Noisette. In any case, however, it was Noisette who 
raised the Blush Noisette Rose. The new seedling had the vigorous 
constitution of Rosa moschata together with a profuse clustered inflor- 
escence, and Noisette, recognizing its value, carefully propagated it. 
Philippe Noisette also sent plants to Lendormi, an amateur gardener at 
Rouen, and to J acques Durand, a tradesman also of Rouen ; these same 
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