It is mid-June and warm breezes circulating in the Hudson Valley carry an inescapable but pleasing fragrance from the tangled multiflora rose bushes that abound along country roads and in old fields. I sometimes think that the society world would be ecstatic if Paris could capture the bouquet from these attractive clusters of white-to-pink blossoms in a parfum bottle. Come fall and especially winter, when these thorny and almost impenetrable thickets (at least to humans and livestock) are heavy with trillions of dangling red berries, or hips, hungry mockingbirds and other wild creatures will rejoice in their own fashion. Multiflora rose in bloom. (From Plant Conservation Alliance) I should state here that Rosa multiflora is an exotic invader and widely despised, especially by farmers and ranchers. A fact sheet from the Plant Conservation Alliance's Alien Plant Working Group shouts LEAST WANTED in the ancient block type used on posters offering rewards for the capture of Old...