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peculiar scent, most unlike every other Rose. This, the Tea, being 
blended by hybridisation with musk and other Roses, brought our ol 1 
delicious lruit-scented Jaune Desprez, or the Raspberry-scented Rose. 
This being probably fertilised by Cloth of Gold has given us, in Gloire 
de Dijon, the great desideratum of late years; a hardy free-blooming 
and magnificent climbing Tea Rose, with a true fruit scent. Few or 
no Roses are so odoriferous as the Teas. I have found a single bloom 
ot Tea Goubault sufficient to perfume a large room. Their peculiar 
scent is to be recognised, however they may have been crossed with 
other Roses. 
The true old Noisette still retains the delicate scent of its parent, the 
Musk Rose. The time is now come when the Noisette Roses of our 
catalogues must merge into what they really are, a family of hybrid 
climbing Teas. The days of the true old Bourbon, too, are numbered. 
This brilliant class, for want of scent, is now being largely hybridised 
with Teas and Perpetuals to give its flowers size and fragrance, so that 
novelties in Bourbons are every season becoming more rare, and in a 
few years they will have to be called Hybrid Teas. The Macartneys 
and other families have now become, for want of fragrance, quite 
unpopular. So much for perfume. What is a Rose without it ? 
I now come to the grand family of Hybrid* Perpetuals, the most 
popular of all; and even here, although they have been united and 
blended in a thousand ways with all other classes of Roses in 
cultivation, their perfume, to one accustomed to the true scent of 
each class, is of the greatest assistance in obtaining a clue to their 
pedigree. Take the old well known Hybrid Perpetual, Madame 
Laffay, as the standard in this class. Its scent has been compared by 
some to almond paste, and is quite distinct from the rich astringency 
of the Damask Perpetual, and the well-known Provence or Cabbage. 
Here, again, how readily the slightest cross with the Cabbage or Moss 
is to be distinguished, and I am glad to see Mr. Rivers has noticed 
this in his valuable work, “ The Rose Amateur’s Guide,” and descriptive 
catalogues, as perfume, the most delightful attribute of the Rose, has 
been too much overlooked in describing its other perfections. No class 
of flowers on the face of the earth is so charmingly varied in this 
respect. There is a very pretty old climber, well known to most Rose 
lovers, by the name of Ayrshire splendens ; with its colour I have not 
to deal. I believe I could most readily distinguish it from all others 
by its scent, which has not any trace of the sweetness of the Rose, but 
a powerful odour of myrrh. As a contrast to this, the climbing white 
Banksia has the delightful scent of Violets. Then there are the 
Austrian Briars, Yellow and Copper, which are very singular and 
distinct in odour. The little Double Scotch Rose (Rosa spinosissima) 
has quite a charming scent of its own, reminding some of attar of Roses, 
others of Scotch snuff! Even the young foliage of several families is 
distinctly scented, as is well known in the case of Sweet Briars, Mosses, 
and others. 
I fear many of our readers will think I have drawn distinctions with ¬ 
out difference in describing the above varieties of perfume, but I believe 
I can array on my side a goodly list of lady amateurs and brother 
