'Rosier Muscade à fleurs semi-doubles' rose photos

Eden: A Compleat Body of Gardening No. 45 (July) 1757 John Hill 7. The DOUBLE MUSK ROSE. We have said that in a succeeding Number we shall deliver the Culture of the most elegant and choice Kinds of Roses; but there remain some others more easily raised; which, for their Singularity, or Elegance, demand a Place. The Musk Rose is one: its Flower is inferior to many other Kinds in Size, and in Colour is simply white, but the Scent makes Amends for its other Defects, and the Number of the Flowers is some farther Recommendation. The Generality of Authors who have written on Flowers have named it The BAUHINES call it Rosa moschata flore pleno, and Rosa moschata minor flore pleno. The early Writers only Rosa moscata alba. LINNAEUS, who refers the Varieties boldly in this Genus to their proper Species, calls it Rosa caule aculeato pedunculis laevibus, calycibus semispinnatis glabris: prickly Rose with smooth Flower-stalks, and smooth semipinnated Cups. The Root spreads, and is very hardy. The Stem is firm, but not thick, and the Shoots are numerous: it makes a Bush of three Foot or more in Height: prickly in all Parts except the Foot-stalks of the Flower. The Leaves are large, they are pinnated, and of a pale green; each is composed of about two Pair of Pinnae, with an odd one at the End; and these are serrated at the Edges. The Flowers are very numerous, and perfectly white. They have the musky Scent, but much less than the common single white Musk Rose, and they are not of the larger Kinds; their Petals are numerous, but usually folded irregularly together. There is a great deal of Difference in the Aspect and Scent of this Rose, according to the Degree and Manner of Culture when the Flower is most regularly expanded it smells most sweet. The Characters when traced in the single Flower, are the same as in the first Kind described in this Number; and it is to be cultivated in the same general Manner. It requires a better Soil, and more Compass; and must never be suffered to run too high, or to be loaded with too much Wood. The richest Garden Mould is the proper Earth for it; the Bush should be planted at a Yard Distance every Way from any thing else, and the exuberant Shoots kept under. Every October it should be pruned with a bold Hand; and every Spring a great Part of the Mould should be taken off, and fresh put in its Place all round it. Then in the Beginning of the flowering Season it must be well watered, and too many Flowers must not be suffered to blow, nor any to stand after they have passed their Beauty.