brother in Paris under the name of `Noisette Roses'." Ellwanger in his book, "The Rose," says, "Louis Noisette received it about the year 1817. These roses, originally, had the characteristics in a great measure of the old Musk Rose, such as scent and a tendency to bloom in large clusters. The group is naturally of strong growth and nearly hardy." This blush Noisette of 1817 was called Le Rosier de Philippe Noisette by Thory and so painted by Redouté in "Les Roses."
     In "Les Roses," the Rosier de Philippe Noisette is thus described: The bush grew in France to 8 or 10 feet. (Four to 5 feet is the height attained by the Faded Pink Monthly so far in its career with us.) Branches are glabrous, with prickles quite strong, a bit crooked, red on the flowering shoots, brown on the old branches. Leaflets, 5 to 7, oval pointed, rarely obtuse, glabrous, green above, paler underneath, simply and finely serrate. Petioles velvety, armed with several little recurving prickles which extend onto the vein of the impaire or end leaflet, sometimes. Stipules are adnate with the petiole, bisected, pointed at end, toothed and glandulous on the edges. Flowers are lateral and terminal. The first to open are larger than the Musk Rose, the later ones a little less in size. They have a fragrance "très-suave." The flowers are rarely solitary, more often they come 3 or 6 together at the ends of the branching stems, where they unite in a sort of panicle often composed of a great quantity of flowers, even as many as 130, which develop successively and very well. The tube of the calyx is shaped like a little keg. The pedicels are covered with downy hairs or glands. The sepals are two entire and three provided with small simple pinnules. They are pointed at the end, downy inside, and edged with little sessile glands. (Faded Pink Monthly so far has never exceeded 30 in a cluster of bloom.)
     The corolla has 7 or 8 ranks of white petals washed with pink, a little yellow at the claw, irregularly indented at the top. Styles are free, with stigmas reddish making a salient pistil. The rose partakes of the China Rose in foliage, flowers, and period of bloom. It differs from' the Musk Rose by having free styles which in the Musk are joined in a column.
     With the exception of height and quantity of flowers in a cluster, this was the Faded Pink Monthly.