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[Content] On Sep 13, 2003, knives4less from Asheville, NC wrote: WARNING: Considered an agricultural pest. Birds eat the berries of this plant and propagate it to farmer�s fields and pasturage. Also harbors a plant virus deadly to other roses and the arrow beetle which spreads the disease. This plant was imported from Asia circa 1900 by George Vanderbilt of Biltmore Farms, Asheville NC, In the early 1950s, Chauncy Beadle planted thousands of these plants as a replacement for fencing. The examples of this plant that grow in the Biltmore Estate Rose Garden are kept below 2ft in height, to avoid the development of berries and consequent propagation It is extremely hardy and grows in dense clumps. The flowers are quite small and almost always white. They grow in clumps of 8 or 10 and bloom all summer. The fragra... read morence is light and sweet, attracting bees. Pink and yellow varieties are hybrids and are patented. [Rating] 
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