Number One is a shrub rose of four to six feet. The clusters are composed of many small fragrant pale pink blooms, with petals somewhat imbricated; buds round and bright pink. The bush blooms all summer.
     Number Two grows five to ten feet. The flower cluster is large and crowded like a compounded corymb; blush buds are marked with dashes of deep pink. The double, blush to white, medium-sized blooms are fragrant of musk. A note saying that this rose has been called Seven Sisters would indicate that roses in shades from pink to white occurred in the same cluster at the same time. The foliage on this specimen is dark, somewhat shining, wavy on the margins and a bit crumply on the surface. The plant blooms all summer.
     Number Three grows as a pillar or semi-climber. Canes are slender; joints are quite angular. Foliage is small for a Noisette. The clusters of fragrant, medium-sized double blooms are of the deep pink of the China rose, tending toward carmine; buds of a deep carmine shade. Having long been acquainted with Fellemberg, we rule that out. It is not Fellemberg to us.
     Imbricated petals, small crumply foliage, and angular joints are noted in descriptions of Noisette roses, but every time the description fails to fit these roses. To try to identify specimens without at least one season of observation of flower, foliage, stalks and manner of growing is a bold and dangerous under-taking. So, for the present, these three lovely old roses must go by the names they have borne, with the addition of Noisette, small-flowered variety: they are Great-Aunt Bet's Pale Pink; Great-Aunt Bet's Blush; Great-Aunt Bet's Deep Pink.
     There is a certain amount of unresolved confusion about the origin of the Noisette rose. It has been generally accepted here that John Champneys, of Charleston, S. C., made the first cross of Rosa moschata, the Musk, with R. chinensis, the old Blush China, and that Champneys' Pink Cluster was the original. Philip Noisette, a French florist of Charleston, is credited with having created the Blush Noisette from Champneys.' His brother, Louis Noisette, flowered this second variety in France in 1818 for the first time. From that time on these Musk-China hybrids were called Noisette roses. The French rose-growers created; the English and Americans bought.

     While both ancestors, R. moschata and R. chinensis, are easy to use, the hybrids, except for Champneys,' which seeds easily, were rather reluctant. The probability is that the greater number of small-flowered clustering Noisettes were either first or second crosses. Naturally there would be many white varieties. The pink shades run all the way from blush through pale and bright pink, to the deep carmine which we see often in Old Blush China. This sounds simple. It is not. Unless some outstanding characteristic is noted in a description, we are lost among whites, among pinks and deep pinks.
     Compensations, however, may be noted. By everlastingly keeping at it, several small-flowered Noisettes have been gathered in and are listed in a few nursery catalogues. Some others have been grown here from cuttings sent by kind rose friends, and a few have been identified after years of observation. Among these is one single flesh-pink Noisette, reverse of petals deeper pink; somewhat fragrant. In all the Noisettes listed (93 by Mrs. Gore in 1838) by William Paul through his editions from 1848 to 1888, a rose called The Large Single Noisette rose . is the lone single. In this November it has been blooming here.
     One very pretty stranger, grown from a cutting, may well be Conque de Vénus, that lovely shell in which Venus rode as she washed ashore. It is an old rose; outside petals creamy white, center bright rosy pink, a bit more than double, fragrant and liberal in bloom in clusters.
     From another rose friend came a strong plant of a rose with the good and desirable old name, Adélaide d'Orléans. It soon showed that it was not a hybrid of R. sempervirens, as Adélaide was. However, it did its part, bloomed its beautiful pure white, --very pure white--, almost full, medium-sized fragrant roses in clusters, and seems to be a Noisette, new in 1846, named Isabelle d'Orléans. Fellemberg is of that bright carmine shade we see in Old Blush China and her kin, especially in hot weather. We call it a cupped rose, but it acts irregularly in the way of Old Blush China. The foliage is darker than some.
     A Noisette of a solid pink color, very close to Old Blush China, has been considered and struggled with, over and over. Sometimes we think it is Frazer's old Musk. Sometimes we think it may be a rose named Chloris which is noted as "Par-