The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-07-18
RAREST OF JUNE ROSES.
The Resurrection Rose which was Found
in the Bosom Of a Mummy.
New York World

new 1Ork World
June was never more lavish than
now with her flowers. Roses bloom iu
the streets OfNew York at prices that
would drive florists to desperation 10
the fashionable season. Nothing 10
this curious world of to-day is 20 highly
priced in its proper season, least of all
a rose. The only one that has all sea-
sons for its own is the Rose Of Jericho,
or Resurrection flower, of which there
are several specimens in the United
States, notably one in the possession OF
Ex-Governor Andrew q. Curtin, of
Pennsylvania. Another is owned by
DR. Edward BedlOe, through whom,
indeed, Gov. Curtin received recently
his own.
The first resurrection flower known
in modern times is said To have
been found i'm the 81 icy folds
Of the linen cincture of an Egypt
ian mummy. When the tomb of the
Princess, for such she was shown to be
by the fillet on her parchment brow,
was desecrated by party Of American
pleasure seekers, little withered ball,
dry, brown, not unlike the head of
dead poppy, was found in PsOrai's CIR
die, still attached to a slender callous
stem, without lesYes, and to all APP
pearances as dead as when placed on
her fresh young corpse two thOus-
and years and more ago.
PsOrai's mummy, like most of the
treasures of antiquarian Egypt, was
after while csrted away to the
British Museum. The rose that had
bloOmed on her bier and then withered
away for a two-thOusand-year nap was
taken by the American tourists to
their hotel in Cairo. One Of them sat
at the window on June night some
years ago and idly toyed with the
floral relic of old as the big yellow
moon came slanting along over the
sands. In a moment of romantic
trifling the Rose of Jericho, still un-
known by its true name and in its
true spIeHdOr Of beauty, was dropped
into water jar which was rapidly
cooling its contents by the tremendous
evaporative power of the peculiar wind
! from the Delta The pOetical tourist
drowsed away for a few minutes longer
and rose TO go from the mOOnlit realm
Of the PharaOhs TO prosaic Cairene
bed, when his eye fell on the water jar
Supported by the top rim of the neck
of the porroDe, the stem dangling down
ia the cool LIQUID beneath, blOOmed
a strange star-like flower, not unlike
an aster in general appearance. It's
fbres still quivered with nascent life.
A moment more and It's petals bent
back wards still further aud displayed
glowing iridescent heart of unknown
aud striking hues and bewildering pat
tern.
The "Resurrection Flower" had
made itself known to the modern
world. Thrilled by the sight the
/ poetic yOuth-nO other than BedlOe
himself-rushed away to call his COM
pauiOns to the marvellous sight. They
were asleep, worn out by the days IA
, tigues, and bard to get out Of bed
? When they came with their sgitated
T guide to the window where his stone
Jar rested with its marvellous freight
behold, the dry brown ball was itsel
+ again, the hidden beauties sealed once
more with the mummy's curse and
shut back beyond sun or moon light il
their withered envelope. The Rose o
) Jericho blooms in this way sometimes
] but half an hour year.
/ Gov Curtin's specimen Of this mys
tic plant was sent him by DR.. James F
) Love, dentist to the Khedive, who Sc
cured it at DIR. Bedloe's request from
Sami Pssha. Sami is tue guide whit
A attended Gen. Grant on his tou
: through Egypt. He performed Iik'
= offices for King Kalakaua aud 70
e Robert Garrett. When the Khedivl
r made BedIoe a Bey in payment Of I
, dentists bill Sami showed him around
Z. Alexandra and even became Ameri
canized TO the extent Of allowing Bed
Z loe to call him Sammy"
DR.. Love is said to be the only rea
} live American resident IN Alexandfia
> Love is bouud up in the story Of liz
4 Rose Of Jericho, in more ways thar
one. By It the wonderful oetOgenarial
S DE Lesaeps won his present wife,