The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-12

GOLDEN RosE-FAvoRITE go Di Ais
MADE FROM THE FRAGRANTB BUDS.
Saws the Pail Mtal Gazette: A moderate
liking for roses rs good things in their piace
has been Justly considered one OF the results
OF home education which are least open TO
objection. 1t is, however, by no means gene
raj among persons who have taken SO PROM
inent part in public life as to nave at-
,racted the attention OF history, ana WHO
share, with the blaek-beetle, positive DIS
taste for the rose. The famous Chepailcr uc
| Guise could not smell a rose without fce'inS
uncomfortable; and Venieri, one OF the
| Doros of Venice, suffered under the
same disqualification for the ptir-
suits of gardening. Anne OF Austria.
wife of Louis MIL, could not even look
Mt r rose in painting without being
seized with tantrumS. Nevertheless, many
people who sre willing as rule to take eS-
amplcs from the great have persisted IN en-
| tertaining friendly sentiments towards thls
| flower, and every time that the spring anu
early summer bring back the pretty vegetl-
| bile they fall to telling one another all they
! know about it, ..
In the East there is still belief that the
, first rose was formed bya
TEAR OF THE PROPHET MAHoMET,
but nations of more cool and disciplined
IMAGINATION have sometimes admitted that
its origin is lost in obscurlty. Roses were
used very early in history among
the most potent ingredients OF love
philtcrs. They seem to have been I'M
ported by the Romans from Egypt until
tbe reign of Domitian. Antiochus slept
upon a bed OF rose-lcavcs. Mark Antony
begged that Cleopatra would cover his tomb
with these flowers, and ."med rosa " was q
favorite term Of endearmcnt among Roman
lovers as who should say "nt0R chou (my
cabbace) nowadays in France. Homer has
adorned the shield of Achilles and the he'll
met of Hector with roses.
Among the Greeks it was custom to
leave requests for the maintenance of scplll-
chral rose-gardens over the grave OF the tes-
! tator: and at Torcalo, near Venice, an i'll
scrption may still be seen which shows
that this fashion was adopted i'll Italy. In
IStock's collection of engravings on stone
there is a beautiful design cut in garnet. 1t
represents d butterfly sitting on Il rose, and
if is supposed to commemorate the death OF
a Young girl. In Turkey Il stone rose Is
often, sculpturcd above the graves OF IN
married women. A charming bas-rellcf on
the tombs of Nine. DE la Live, who died ut
the are Of twenty, represents Time moving
- ROSE WITH HIS sCYTHE.
According to Indian mythology, Pagoda-
siri, one of the wives of Vishull, was found
in rose. Zoroastcr is said to have made Il
rose-tree spring out of the earth and bud
and blossom in the presence of Darius. who
had called upon him to perform Il miracle.
In Babylon a preparation OF shoe-catlrI
was much esteemed when it had been i'm
prcwuated with the scent OF roses; and Ab-
dulkarj, an eminent Turk. who wanted to
live there, being made aware of this fact,
discovered an ingenious way to profit by it..
In replv to demand which he had madefor
the freedom of the city the Babyonians sent
him q bowl brimfuI OF water, to signify that
there was no room among them for an i'll
truder. AbduIkari placed rosc-leaf on the
surface Of the water without spllfinS drop
of it, and having. thus indicated that he
might be received without making mess,
he obtained the object of his desire.
In one of the books attributed to Solomon
eternal wisdom is compared to the pi;lnta-
tons OF rose-trees at Jericho. Princess
Nonrmahal the most lovely lady in the
harem of Great Mogul. had canal filled
with rosewater and rowed about on it with
her august consort. The heat of the sun dis
engaged the essential oil from the water,
and their MajesticS having observed the fact
INVENTED OTTO OF ROSES D.:
The Emperor IIcliogabalus filled 4 fish
pond with rose-watcr; it Is nowhere said
whether the fishes approved OF this pro-
Feeding. When the Sedan Saladin, who
had SO much trouble with hard-tisted Eng
lish King Richard and his turbulent Chris
tian friends, took Jerusalem in 1lSS he
would not enter the Temple, which he pro-
fanely called mosque, till he had lis walls
washed with rose-water, and SanuC assures
us that 500 camels were no more than sutfi-
cient to carry the purifying liquid. Also,
after the taking of Constantinople by Ma
homet ii. in 1455, the church OF st. Sophia
was solemnly purified with rose-water be-
fore it was converted into mosque.
The high priest of the Hebrews wore a
crown of roses when he offered up'certaln
sacrifices under the mosaic dispensation;
and it was perhaps in remembrance OF this
fact that the Synod of Nismes, which was
held in the third century, enioined every
Jew to wear rose on his breast as dstln-
gushing mark of inferiority. In many coun-
tries the Jews still celebrate the festival Of
Easter Flowers, during which they orla-
ment their lamps, chandeliers, and beds with
roses.
| Illus IL uuDlcHcu tilitI thCSS ub"t1s WIZ
hateful to the early Christians and are often
condemned in N.,.
THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS,
who professed that they could not under
stand that pious people could think with
equapimity of roses when they remembered
the crown of thorns afterwards this hos
tile feeling seems to have died out. When
Marie Antoinette passed through Nancy on
her Way to be married to Louis XVI. the
ladies Of lorraine prepared her bed
strewed with roses. In the Middle Ages
roses were held so precious in France that
a royal license was necessary to grow them.
Charlemagne recommended the cultivation
of the rose in his CdpitalGtion. The Per-
| slams Of Shiraz stop their wie-bottles with
roses, which give the wine pleasing smell;
! and during the festival Of Adrian, which
takes place during the equinox, Persian
ladies throw roses at each other when they
pay visits. ,~-.
! At Rome twas the practice of the Church
4 to bless the rose on special day set apart,
which was called Rose Sunday. The GUS
tom Of blessing the golden rose seems to
have begun in the eleventh or twelfth coin
fury. The benedictiOn was pronounced
with particular solcmnity on the fourth
Sunday in Lent, and
H. THE GOLDEN ROSE
thus consecrated was given as mark Of the
Sovereign Pontiff's favor to some prince or
princess. Alexander Ill, who had been
received with great honor during a
| tourney which he made In France sent