Roses are those small little wonderful...
Roses are those small miracles which achieve wonders of the highest orders, things a million words cannot express. Flowers speak when lips remain sealed by noble emotions that rendering into words is oftentimes so difficult. Roses are the best gift to be given. A bouquet or may be just a single bud of the flower that has not yet bloomed can reveal the feelings within your heart.
Rose can be said to be synonymous with love. The beauty of the rose has always cast a spell on people dwelling on love matters.
Roses have been known for at least 35 million years, according to fossil evidence.
Garden cultivation of roses began some 5,000 years ago.
During the Roman Empire, roses were grown extensively in the Middle East. They were used as confetti at celebrations, for medicinal purposes, and as a source of perfume.
It was a rose that kept Christopher Columbus and his weary crew from turning homeward before sighting land on October 11, 1492. While becalmed in the Sargasso Sea, one of the crewmen picked a rose branch bright with red fruit out of the water. With renewed hope, this sign of land gave the seafarers the courage to continue to the New World.
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw the first work in hybridizing roses in the West (the Chinese had been at it for two thousand years already). Two hundred new rose strains were developed between 1580 and 1710. Then, in 1781 the Dutch East India Company brought back a China rose named ‘Old Blush’ and the race was on. Over the next decade the Dutch and British East India Companies brought back dozens of new China roses, leading to the development of Teas, Bourbons, and Portlands. These were crossed into the existing pool of species and Old Garden roses, leading to an explosion of both rose hybrids and interest in them.
Roses are those small miracles which achieve wonders of the highest orders, things a million words cannot express. Flowers speak when lips remain sealed by noble emotions that rendering into words is oftentimes so difficult. Roses are the best gift to be given. A bouquet or may be just a single bud of the flower that has not yet bloomed can reveal the feelings within your heart.
Rose can be said to be synonymous with love. The beauty of the rose has always cast a spell on people dwelling on love matters.
Roses have been known for at least 35 million years, according to fossil evidence.
Garden cultivation of roses began some 5,000 years ago.
During the Roman Empire, roses were grown extensively in the Middle East. They were used as confetti at celebrations, for medicinal purposes, and as a source of perfume.
It was a rose that kept Christopher Columbus and his weary crew from turning homeward before sighting land on October 11, 1492. While becalmed in the Sargasso Sea, one of the crewmen picked a rose branch bright with red fruit out of the water. With renewed hope, this sign of land gave the seafarers the courage to continue to the New World.
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw the first work in hybridizing roses in the West (the Chinese had been at it for two thousand years already). Two hundred new rose strains were developed between 1580 and 1710. Then, in 1781 the Dutch East India Company brought back a China rose named ‘Old Blush’ and the race was on. Over the next decade the Dutch and British East India Companies brought back dozens of new China roses, leading to the development of Teas, Bourbons, and Portlands. These were crossed into the existing pool of species and Old Garden roses, leading to an explosion of both rose hybrids and interest in them.
In the 15th century, the English families of Tudor and York touted their lineage through display of either a red or white rose in the civil conflict named “the War of the Roses”.
Roses were in such high demand during the seventeenth century that royalty considered roses or rose water as legal tender, and they were often used as barter and for payments.
Over the years even more rose types were concocted with each new cross providing the stepping stone for the next. Rose species roses from all over the world became available to the breeders and there were soon new crosses.
There are two kinds of roses, the old roses which were discovered before 1867, and the modern roses which include Hybrid Teas, Floribundas and Grandifloras. The most lovable roses, the English roses, were created by David Austin, an English rose hybridizer, in the year 1969.
The rose has been cultivated and hybridized for so long that there are, strictly speaking, no species of purely wild rose left on earth, but with all the breeding process there are more than 30,000 varieties of roses. |
