Re. Herbemont's Musk Cluster. From a contribution by and Amateur, Baltimore MD June 10, 1837 in the Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and ... vol. 3, 1837, p 248. Raised by the late Mrs. Nicholas Herbemont of Columbia, SC. Flowers are double the size of the common white musk cluster, equally white, much more fragrant, and the plant is much more prolific and a perpetual bloomer.

Philadelphia Florist and Horticultural Journal, 2(9): 265 (Sept 1853)
by "A Lover of Roses"
Cluster Roses—I could never well understand the distinction between cluster and noisette roses; however, florists make it and we suppose we must follow suit. Noisettes cluster just as much as those I am about to name. If it is the musky odor so peculiar to the old white musk cluster rose, that characterises the group, I must say very few of them possess more than the old stump that traces out these scrawls and the odor is peculiar only to the white roses of the group. I have never seen a rose that I could call a red or pink musk cluster. *Herbemont's White*, is a very excellent and one of the best light cluster roses, always in bloom, profuse and of fine growth, but no musky odor.

Magazine of Horticulture 8: 83-85 (March 1842)
Nursery of Mr. Samuel Feast

In no department of plants has Mr. Feast given more attention than to the cultivation and production of roses from seed. He has raised many hybrids between the Michigan rose and the Herbemot's musk cluster and others, which are remarkably strong growers and free bloomers, producing immense clusters of blossoms.

Some experiments upon the growth of plants in charcoal have been made here. Mr. Feast had quite a collection of Orchidaceae, and as they had not thriven any too well, it occurred to him that he might make use of the charcoal with good effect. The whole of the plants were consequently repotted in a mixture of peat and charcoal: this was done in June or July, and when we saw them in August, many of the plants were throwing out new roots with much vigor. The charcoal seems to act as a conductor and retainer of heat, and, by keeping the soil light and open, facilitates the rooting of the plants. Mr Feast has also tried charcoal in rooting plants from cuttings, and has succeeded in growing in this way Herbemot's musk cluster rose, which he has been unable to multiply by cuttings, in the ordinary way. Combretum purpureum, a plant not easily increased, was speedily rooted in charcoal. We would recommend further experiments to be made, as we are convinced the system is attended with excellent results.