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culture, and very little, if any, pruning. As pillar 

 roses they are seen at their best. 'Fringed' is very 

 pretty and strikes freely from cuttings. Its color 

 is white shaded sulphur. All the Musk-Roses have 

 a peculiar musk-like odor, but this is distilled only 

 on still damp mornings or evenings. 'Eliza Verry' 

 is white, very free, the flowers appearing in large 

 corymbs. 'Rivers Musk' is a pretty pink variety, 

 well worth cultivating. Of the Hybrid Musks the 

 'Garland' is of rampant growth. It has immense 

 corymbs of tiny white flowers with innumerable lit- 

 tle buff colored buds, peering out among them. 

 'Madame d' Arblay' is another. 'Nivea' is a beauti- 

 ful kind for a pergola, or fence." 



The "Noisette" is also a hybrid musk, named for 

 a French gardener of Charleston, South Carolina, 

 who took the seed from the musk-rose in 1817. 



There is a difference between the Eglantine, or 

 Sweetbrier, and the Dog-rose, although they are dif- 

 ficult to distinguish. 



"The 'Dog Rose' sends up long arching branches 

 some six to nine feet high and perhaps more; the 

 'Sweetbrier' is content with branches three or four 

 feet in length. And whereas in the 'Dog Rose' the 

 branch continues single the 'Sweetbrier' sends out 

 side growths, or branchlets quickly forming a dense 



