The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-10
sAMTIQUfI q y RosE
The Flower Goes BncIs BeysoI,s:
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Most Ancient Record
| The royal rose has a petiigtee TO
shame any other queen. it is 50 IoI:g,
SO full Of enchanting turns and twists
and so delightfully."- numbered Iith
myth, fable and history. She is III
way a paradox, since. although by APP
pearance and perfume the most tTop-
zeal of blossoms, she is yet by nativity
flower Of north temperate attitudes.
Her habitat is bounded north and
south, roughly speaking, by the TWEEN
tieth and the SEVENTEEN parallels. She
grows wild all over Europe, in Africa
as low as Abyssinia, in Asia to and
through Inoia and in North America to
the edge of Mexico.
Most wild roses are single, yet Iliny
mentions double ones, among them the
hundred leaf, and Herodotus. says,
Macedonia has gardens of Midas, with
roses of sixty petals breathing out
delightful perfume" Whoever has
read Roman history must recall che
roses of Paestum, which doomed
twice year. Notwithstanding this
Rome's favorite rose was the Hundred
Leaf. 1t followed the eagles and the
leGions wherever they Went and grows
today over three parts Of the Roman
world. a vital record Of that old time
occupation
Etymologically rose is from, the
Celtic rhodd or rhudd, red also the
root of ..ruddy" The Crock name,
rholon, has the same meaning. SO
have most rose names in any language.
BotanicalIy the flower gives nGIie to
the great natural order rosa ceae- ArG-
ficially it is classed under poiESoniae,
the many anGled. The wild forms
have always f1eshy, urn or pitcher
shaped calyNes, twenty Or more sta
mems. five petals and five sepals. The
sepals show a bit of natures most
cunning work. Two OF them are beard
ed at both edges, two without boards
and the fifth bearded at one edge and
straight along the other Thus the!
inclose the bud with q bearded over
lap along every scam, good TO :ei,cl
moisture and to put to rDut every i'll
trusive creeping thing.
Rose cultures beginning goes back
beyond records. The flower IS men
toned in the earliest Coptic manu-
scripts. India's traditions take the
rose to the times of the gods on earth.
Egypt had roses, wild and tame. before
the Roman occupation made it in
way Rome's commercial rose garden.
Yet, curiously enough, there is no rel
erence to the flower in painting, Sculp-
ture or hieroglyphics Japan in our
time parallels Egypt. Roses flourish
there. but do not serve as 4 motif for
artists. There is this further likeness
neither Egypt nor Japan has 4 rose
song or n love song proper. 50 it MAJ
well be that madam the rose is averS-
ed for the slight.
The Jews, returninggfrom the Baby
lonish captivity, took With them 4
of roses. Se1nivalnis. with |
the world ct her feet, found her ch;c!,
joy in bower of roses IJoha lu;ri"!
turned back from Damascus; after
viewing it encircled with In>c x. l-;lo::s,
1t is 100 delightful. y si.:.'l ell havc.
out one paradise said t!'e prophet.
ORA nascus lies il Tie heart Of S!-:':.!.
whose name some geo=r:il,ilers slc-:T"
from sori meanin. T. ..-iid rose ai>..
wild roses are abundant there. Tie
!amask roses of our gardens go back
o Damascus. They We're brought
from it at the time OF TIE crllsa.!cS.
exactly when or b! WHOM;
nobody can certainly say.-Marth;i Alc-
Culloch- Williams in Success.