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Rose Facts and Trivia
– The world’s largest rose bush is in Tombstone, Ariz. It is almost 200 years old and when in full bloom is adorned with more than 200,000 white blooms. Its trunk is nearly 6 feet in diameter, and its branches form a canopy large enough to shelter a crowd of 150 people.
– An estimated 150 million rose plants are purchased by gardeners worldwide every year.
– Until the early 19th century, dried rose petals were believed to have mysterious powers. Napoleon gave his officers bags of rose petals to boil in white wine to cure lead poisoning from bullet wounds.
– One of the oldest paintings in the world depicts a five-petaled pink rose. It resides in a cave on the island of Crete and dates to about 1450 B.C.
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Rose Facts And Trivia
Roses are the traditional gift given on Valentines Day, but they’re certain to be well-received any time of year. But before you buy roses, know what message you’re sending.
The color of a rose can have a very different meaning from what you intend. To ensure that your love understands what the roses you bestow mean, check this guide to rose colors and their meanings:
Red roses proclaim “I love you.” They are the ultimate symbol of romantic love and enduring passion. Florists can’t keep up with Valentines Day demand for red roses, which makes them especially expensive in February.
Yellow Roses
Yellow roses indicate friendship and freedom — so don’t send them if your intentions are romantic and long-lasting. Yellow roses are also appropriate for sending congratulations to newlyweds, and new mothers.
Pale Pink Roses
Pale pink roses connote grace, gentleness, and gratitude.
Light Pink Roses
A joy to behold, light pink roses express fun and happiness.
Deep Pink Roses
Deep pink roses say “Thank you.” They have also come to be associated with the fight against breast cancer.
Lilac Roses
Lilac roses indicate the sender has fallen in love at first sight with the recipient and is enchanted.
White Roses
Pure white roses symbolize truth and innocence. They also send other messages: “I miss you” and “You’re heavenly.”
Peach Roses
Peach roses speak of appreciation and gratitude.
Coral Roses
Coral roses express one thing with their passionate colour: Desire.
Orange Roses
Orange roses communicate enthusiasm and desire on the part of the sender’.
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THE VICAR’S DAUGHTERS COLLECTION
Three beautiful roses bred by the Rev Joseph Pemberton
And named after his daughter’s.
FELICIA
Delicate soft pink and cream blooms fading to almost white. Flowering is most prolific in the spring, but is a little less so in summer. However the late summer and autumn show is quite something as the flowers are borne in huge panicles bearing the most highly coloured and longest lasting flowers of the year. If the spent flowers are not removed, large round red hips are produced which look most attractive among the autumn flowers. Good strong disease resistant foliage. Can really brighten up a dull autumn day. Shade tolerant and makes a good hedge Excellent Perfume.
National Rose Society Certificate of Merit 1927 Royal Horticultural Society Award Of Garden Merit 1993 Bred by th Rev Joseph Pemberton and named after one of his daughters.
CORNELIA
This lovely old rose has been around a while but is just as popular as ever. A hybrid musk rose with the usual free flowering associated with this species of rose. The lovely rosette flowers are a rich apricot flushed pink and are borne in large arching trusses continually from summer to autumn. A superb strong growing shrub with very few thorns plus good dark green bronze glossy foliage. Completely hardy but does best in a sunny spot out of the wind. Can be grown in the garden or large container, is shade tolerant and will cope with poorer soils. Distinct Musk Fragrance.
Royal Horticultural Society Award Of Garden Merit 1993
Bred by the Rev Joseph Pemberton and named after one of his daughters.
PENELOPE
This is a large, arching shrub with vigorous and disease free growth. It flowers continuously through summer and into autumn and produces a lovely show of hips in winter. The trusses of double, medium sized blooms are of a delicate light pink and apricot shades fading to white with age. ‘Penelope’ makes a fine specimen rose in the garden or an effective informal hedge, and is useful for growing over walls or fences and will cope with partial shade. The blooms are sweetly scented.
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ROSE FACTS & TRIVIA .6.
Rose Quotes
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Traditional Proverb
A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.
French Proverb
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
Saudi Arabian Proverb
He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.
Dutch Proverb
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It’s all how you look at it.
Kenfield J. Morley
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
If you are among the roses, your friends will look for you among the thorns.
Swedish Proverb
If you lie upon roses when you’re young, you’ll lie upon thorns when you’re old.
Romanian Proverb
It is the belief in roses that makes them flourish.
French Proverb
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot
Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow. The way is lonely, let me feel them now.
Arabella Smith
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow, gather the roses of life today.
Pierre de Ronsard
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby
Love sees roses without thorns.
German Proverb
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Turkish Proverb
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
Dutch Proverb
The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.
Turkish Proverb
The most beautiful roses grow on graves.
German Proverb
The road to hell is strewn with roses.
Mexican Proverb
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi
The rose comes from the thorns that were born of roses.
Turkish Proverb
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse
‘Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Edward Moore
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Henri Matisse
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ROSE FACTS AND TRIVIA .5.
When Is A Rosa Not A Rose
Rosa is a town in Blount County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 313.
.223 Rosa is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a combination of C-type and P-type asteroids, so it is probably composed of carbonaceous material rich in water ice. It is also a member of the Themis asteroid family. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on March 9, 1882 in Vienna. Origin of the name is not known.
.Rosa is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany.
.The Rosa is a Tjalk-clipper style barge, built in Dedemsvaart, Holland in 1907. Most of her career has been spent sailing the Dutch Seas. Her previous name was “Renaissance”.
ROSA, the Romanian Space Agency
Rosa, a song by Dimitris Mitropanos
Rosa, the starting planet in the PS2 game Rogue Galaxy
Mitsubishi Fuso Rosa, a bus built by Mitsubishi Fuso
ROSE FACTS AND TRIVIA .4.
1.There are about 15,000 species of roses cultivated around the world.
2. The rose family also includes pears, apples, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and almonds.
3. George Washington, the first American President, was also the first U.S. rose breeder!
4. Columbus discovered America because of a rose! It is written that on October 11, 1492, while becalmed in the Sargasso Sea, one of the crewmen picked a rose branch from the water. This sign of land renewed their hope for survival and gave the seafarers the courage to continue on to the New World.
5. Chinese Proverb. “The rose has thorns only for those who gather it.
6. According to the Thousand and One Arabian Nights, the Caliph of Bagdad served a jam made from roses that held captive anyone who ate it.
7. The word Rose is possibly an anagram of “Eros”
8. In sixteenth century England, a rose was sometimes worn behind the ear by servants. Tavern workers, and others to indicate that the wearer heard all and told nothing.
9. A seventh century German book lists thirty three diseases that supposedly can be cured by rose water or oil.
10. In the language of flowers, roses are said to communicate love and passion, so a dozen is like shouting out loud.
EROS> God Of love.
ROSE FACTS AND TRIVIA .3.
1. The first Hybrid Tea Rose produced was ‘La France’ in 1867.
2. In the early nineteenth century rose petals were boiled in white wine as a cure for lead poisoning from bullet wounds.
3. June is the National Rose Month in the USA.
4. A thornless rose signifies love at first sight.
5. In the seventeenth century, dried rose petals in tincture or powder form were used to relieve heavy menstruation and other bleedings.
6. The name “Centifolia” means “100 petals”.
7. Empress Josephine of France often carried a rose in her hand to raise to her lips when smiling, as she was very sensitive about her imperfect teeth.
8. The word ‘Rosary’, comes from the Latin rosarium, meaning ‘Rose Garden’ or ‘Garland Of Roses’ .
9. According to Biblical stories, there was a white rose that grew in the Garden of Eden and turned red as it blushed with shame upon Adam and Eve’s fall from grace.
10. Research done in Jerusalem has shown that Viagra can increase vase life of a rose by an additional 5 – 7 days.
La France. 1867
ROSE FACTS AND TRIVIA .2.
1. Rosa Gallica Officinalis (The Apothecary’s Rose) is probably the oldest rose to be cultivated in Europe.2. A fossilized rose was found in Colorado USA which was 35 million years old.3. The oldest rose in the world which is said to be over 1000 years old is growing in the courtyard of Hildeshiem Cathedral in Germany.4. The ceilings in Roman dining rooms were decorated in roses. Their guests were reminded that any conversation during dinner should be kept secret. ‘Sub rosa’ - ‘Under the rose’ still means ‘confidentially’ today.5. In ancient Egypt roses were considered a sacred flower and were used as offerings to the Goddess Isis who was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife.6. In the middle ages Roses were grown in China and the petals were used to flavour tea and pastries.7. Throughout history roses have been used as a potent ingredient of love potions.8. The floors of Cleopatra’s palace were reported to be carpeted with scented rose petals.9. In Roman times Roses were used to decorate liberated slaves,
10. The Romans also wore garlands of roses as they were thought to ward off the effects of drinking too much wine.
