ROSA IN'DICA. 
JAUNE DESPREZ, OR YELLOW NOISETTE. 
Class. Order. 
MONANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEA. 
Orig^in. 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Raised 
Hybrid. 
15 feet. 
August. 1 
Shrub. 
in 1832’ 
No. 729. 
So much novelty and beauty has been combined 
in the numerous French Roses which have been 
originated within the leist ten years, that Roses are 
taking the foremost place in the estimation of almost 
every cultivator of a garden. This, however, is but 
their reinstatement to their ancient privilege, for 
the Rose has met the adulation of the poet and the 
sage in all countries of the globe, and in all ages — 
it is the very type of beauty, taking unquestioned 
precedence in all matters of ornament and taste. 
Gerard could not express his own feelings on the 
Rose, without casting a glance back to the high 
estimation in which it was held by the Greeks, who 
were as enthusiastic in its admiration as the most 
Rose-loving moderns of the nineteenth century. 
Gerard says, The plant of Roses, though it be a 
shrub full of prickles, yet it had been more fit and 
conuenient to haue placed it with the most glori- 
ous floures of the world, than to insert the same 
here among base and thornie shrubs : for the Rose 
doth deserue the chiefest and most principall place 
among all floures whatsoeuer, beeing not onely es- 
teemed for his beautie, vertues, and his fragrant and 
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