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"Frazer's Pink Musk" rose References
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Book (2009) Includes photo(s).
p13. C. Patton Hash. Champneys and South Carolina's Forgotten Rose.
Another possible source for Champneys' parent plants was John Fraser, one of the most colorful botanist-explorers of the day. Born in Scotland and trained at Kew, Fraser arrived in South Carolina in 1786 and by 1787 had published Flora Caroliniana the first extensive study of the state's flora and a landmark in American botanical writing. Fraser started a nursery on the Stono River near where Maybank Highway crosses onto John's Island. Only a few miles separated it from Champneys' plantation on the Wallace River, a tributary of the Stone.....
p40. Photo. Gregg Lowery: "Frazer's Pink Musk". Found in South Carolina, USA, and displayed at The Huntington Botanical Gardens, circa 1980. While this may yet prove to be identical with the Noisette called "Lingo Musk", the genetic study seems to indicate that the two are not identical. In the 1980s this rose grew in The Huntington Botanical gardens, and was believed to be the rose raised by the Charleston botanist and nurseryman John Frazer, a contemporary of Philippe Noisette and John Champneys. This tall, broad plant can send up canes of 7 to 8 feet in late summer and autumn, each of which finishes in a great panicle of flowers. The blooms are small, an inch or so across, rosy pink to blush, with a sweet, musky scent.
p41 ibid. Rosarian Leonie Bell ordered it ["Lingo Musk"], grew it, and suspected it to be the long lost "Frazer's Pink Musk". It is uncertain whether this plant is distinct from the "Frazer's Pink Musk" that was grown at The Huntington Botanical gardens; however, the genetic study portion of the Hampton Park Noisette Study seems to indicate that they are different.
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