“Although it has been grown now for more than 2000 years, the rose is still increasing in popular fancy” remarked Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., when he opened the rose show of the Canterbury Horticultural Society. The Romans and the Greeks had loved the rose, he said, and for many people it was still placed above all the other flowers.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VLI, Issue 3421, 18 December 1935, Page 3
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