Newsletter  (Feb 2013)  Page(s) 3.  
 
"America's First Rose Breeders"
Darrell g.h. Schramm

John Fraser, a botanist-explorer and nurseryman originally from Scotland, set up his nursery a few miles from John Champneys’ rice plantation. About the same time as ‘Champneys’ Pink Cluster’, a rose appeared with the name of ‘Fraser’s Pink Musk’. Some rosarians assume that Fraser developed this rose, while others speculate that Champneys may have produced it and named it for John Fraser. But apparently Fraser took it to Europe where, according to Robert Buist in 1839, it became known as “‘Frazerii’. ‘Blush Musk’, ‘Pink Musk’, all the same rose . . . much puffed in Europe, being the only one of colour in that group.” William Robert Prince also lists this rose in his 1846 nursery catalogue. William lists it as ‘Fraser’s’ in The Rose Garden of 1848.
About 1980 a rose discovered in South Carolina was believed to be 'Fraser's Pink Musk'. The plant grows seven or eight feet high, each cane ending in a cluster of small rosy-pink, scented flowers. According to the paltry records we have, it would be among the first three roses bred in our country.

Book  (2009)  Page(s) 13.  
 
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 Stono.....

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 53-54.  
 
Fraser's Pink Musk (Fraser, ca. 1810), syn. 'Blush', 'Carné', 'Flesh-Coloured', 'Frazerii'. Noisette. [The author cites descriptions from several sources]...One wonders if this rose was actually raised by Mr. John Fraser, or only "carried thence to England" by him. Coming as it did from Charleston, and considering the time it appeared, it is conceivable that it could be ome sibling of 'Champney's Pink Cluster', raised by Champneys; but this only pure speculation. At any rate, it is the second Noisette.

Book  (1995)  Page(s) 152.  
 
Charleston's own contribution to the heritage of roses includes Champneys' Pink Cluster, Isabella Gray, and Fraser's Pink Musk, the latter being developed around 1818 by John Fraser.

Book  (1954)  Page(s) 80.  
 
In 1818 another resident of Charleston, John Fraser, created a variety of the same parentage [as Champney's Pink Cluster] and became so enthusiastic about it that he personally took a plant of it to England in 1821. There it became known as Fraser's Pink Musk or the Blush Musk and occasionally as R. Fraseri, although the latter name was never accorded botanical recognition. The medium-sized, semidouble, intensely fragrant blush-colored blossoms borne in large clusters denoted that it was a typical Noisette.

Magazine  (Sep 1881)  Page(s) 133.  
 
Nomenclature des Rosiers Grimpants
Rosa moschata.
Variétés modernes cultivées.
Carné (ou fraser's blush): petite, semi-double, en coupe rouge pâle.

Book  (1853)  Page(s) 342.  
 
49. R. indica L. The Indian, or common China, Rose.
Varieties.  There are numerous varieties and hybrids of this beautiful rose.  The following are quite distinct; and may each be considered the type of a long list of subvarieties:
9  R. indica Fraseriàna Hort. Brit. p. 211., and Don's Mill. ii. p. 582. — A hybrid, with double pink flowers.

Book  (1848)  Page(s) 150.  
 
Rosa Moschata
1. Blush, or Fraser's; flowers pale red, small and semi-double; form cupped.

Book  (1848)  Page(s) 150.  
 
Rosa moschata.
The Musk Rose.
1. Blush, or Fraser's; flowers pale red, small and semi-double; form, cupped.

Book  (1847)  Page(s) 19, suppl..  
 
Descriptive List of Roses (Supplement)
Miscellaneous
1046 Name: Blush, Fraser's Musk, Rosa Fraserii Class: Musk... Color and Character: Semi-double, blooming in large clusters.