Here another picture. It didn't post!

The blooms are small...7 leaflets. It has some like fine hairs? on buds and off leaf beginnings.

I was gonna go with it but HMF say's Multiflora is white where this is pink and fades white. Well it says white blend let me read more.

I was wondering if it was multiflora too. I only see white in my area. The scent is pretty wonderful.

OK well unless it the pink sport I don't think it's multiflora. Also it didn't smell like honey. A sweet perfume that was not strongly scented , but not honey. Though I could smell it across the road a little, so it may waft? Could have been the wind, not sure. HMF said multiflora smelled strongly of honey. What do you think now? Still Multiflora or something else? Could it be a multiflora hybrid? Should I go back and take pictures of the mother plant? How about Apple Blossom- always wanted it :) Well I do like what ever it is.

There are pink and white forms.

Thanks Christopher! Thanks Dennis! I think/hope it's Apple Blossom. Whatever it turns out to be I hope it roots, I like it :) I will still go back and look at the mother plant and get some more photo's. Just for me. It does look like the one picture of the pink sport on HMF of multiflora.

okk it's mutiflora, those hair on the leaves are the giveaway...Do you think I should keep it or just "let it go".

There are pink forms of R. multiflora.

Here is Luther Burbank's 'Apple Blossom' (also see HelpMeFind: http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.312  -- It's blooms are larger.

Thanks Jeri! I've kinda come to terms with it :( I wonder if I should keep it. I really like it, but don't need no RRD. I did make sure it was healthy before taking cuttings. That doesn't mean much though.

Well, I'll tell you -- I had a climber that suckered to just that pinky-white multiflora. If it weren't for the fact that multiflora HATES to live here, I'd have kept it. I thought it was awful purty. :-)

But, then, we don't have RRD here. I think that might just defeat me.

Pretty, yes. Noxious weed, double yes. See here, for one: USDA, Rosa multiflora. This plant ecologist wonders why you would be encouraging this thing... though, believe me, I know the temptation :-).

Thanks Jeri!

Thanks Catspa- I have done nothing but read on it since Christopher said Multiflora. I really liked it and went into denial for a while..it's so tempting! It's so pretty and smells so good- not to strong, but just right. So yes very tempting. Well when I go to pick up the corn and wheat for the chickens from the mill, I can say hey pretty thing how you doing!?~ :)

There you go, best way to enjoy something like that! Our old Victorian apartment building in Tarrytown, NY (many, many years ago) had a hedge of multiflora out front -- very pretty, and pretty much indestructible.

Multiflora sports to a pale pink pretty easily. Back in the day when the USDA was advising people with country property to plant it in hedgerows, my father did, and he had one or two that were pink. It is incredibly fragrant for the 6-8 weeks it is in bloom.

Unfortunately it is apt to host a very bad disease called Rose Rosette Disease which can decimate a rose garden. There is no cure for RRD, so wild stands of Rosa multiflora can be quite a problem.

Best not to encourage it. Sorry.

Are there any indications that multiflora is more 'apt' to host the RRD vector mites than any other rose or is it the case that is has acted as a spreading medium just because of its, man mediated, abundance in the eastern US (a fact which led to the purposeful attempt to control it by introducing the dreaded virus and its vector)?

This must be a prime example of a double failing of human attempt at controlling nature... first purposefully spreading the introduced 'weed' then attempting to eradicate it by introducing something doubly vicious..

Thanks Rosefolly, I will just enjoy it at the mill. It didn't have RRD and wasn't that big, maybe it get's cut down every year controlling it? With the big mowing things for the roads. This one wasn't on a main highway though.

That's an excellent question Nik, I will wait on a reply with you. You are so right about people and nature. RRD is horrible and I'm lucky I haven't had to deal with it yet.