CATALOGUE OF ROSES. 
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growth, with rich luxuriant foliage, and are the most beautiful in the Autumn. The 
flowers for the most part, are produced in clusters, and are generally of light color, well 
shaped and somewhat fragrant. The moderate growers are mostly suitable for low beds 
on the lawn. Owing to hybridization with other classes, the varieties differ very greatly 
in their characteristics. AU are on their own roots. 
Noisette or Champney Roses. 
(Rosa moschata hybrid a.) 
The Noisette Rose is a product of America, and obtains its name from Phillippe 
Noisette, a florist from Charleston, South Carolina. 
John Champney, of Charleston, from the seed of the White Musk Rose, fertilized 
by the Blush China, raised a variety which was called Champaney’s Pink Cluster. A 
few years after this, Phillippe Noisette, from the seed of Cluimpnev’s Pink Cluster, raised 
the Blush Noisette, and this.he sent to his brother, Louis Noisette, of Paris, under the 
name of Noisette Rose. The true name, therefore, for this class, should be the Champ¬ 
ney, but the change cannot now be made. 
This group is naturally of vigorous growth, nearly hardy, and produces large clusters 
of flowers; but, through hybridization with the Tea section, the original characteristics 
have, in part, disappeared. The varieties now generally grown are less hardy, and have 
partially lost the clustering tendency; but the flowers have much more substance and are 
far more beautiful. As they now exist, they are valuable as Sarmentous or Pillar Rases 
in sheltered positions, and particularly so under glass. Nothing can be finer than a wall 
covered with Lamarque or Cloth of Gold. The leaflets are five to seven in number. All 
are on their ovm roots. 
Tea Roses. 
(Rosa Indica odorata.) 
All are on their oum roots. 
The Tea Rose may well be taken as a synonym for all that is delicately beautiful. 
What refinement of color, what subdued yet powerful fragrance do they possess! They 
may justly be called the sweetest of all Roses. The flowers, many of them, are large and 
very delicate in their shades of colors, such as white, straw, salmon, and various tints of 
rose combined with these. While, as a rule, they are inferior to the, Hybrid Perpetuals 
in brilliancy of color, and fullness of flower, the distinctions between varieties is equally 
marked, and for bouquets and cut flowers they greatly ex<el all other classes. Like other 
tender Roses their flowers improve in quality as the season advances, and reach perfec¬ 
tion in Autumn. In judging the merits of a Tea Rose we do not always consider fullness 
of flowers a requisite. A Hybrid perpetual is nothing if not at least moderately full, but 
some of our most valued Teas have but very few petals, and are comparatively single. Such 
are Bon Silene, Isabella Sprunt, Safrano, etc. All these have exquisitely formed buds, 
and are therefore prized as invaluable. The Teas are more tender than any of the other 
classes, and need a little more care in their protection. We have rejected all varieties 
that are of feeble growth (excepting Xiphetos,) and unhealthy habit, retaining only such 
as combine beauty of flower with good constitution. 
