ORIGIN OF THE ROSE
MOST ANCIENT CULTIVATED PLANT. ■Mr J. Horace Macfarland, editor of the American Rose Society’s Annual, says that away hack in that marvellous country, ancient Greece, in Athens, about 2600 years ago, before the era of Christianity, the rose was first called the Queen of Flowers, and that it is the oldest cultivated plant. Rose—the name of the Queen of Flowers—has so impressed itself on the world’s languages, this rose expert says, that in thirteen of them the word as we know it would be recognised by the same sound. The name brings, in thirteeen different languages, to the people speaking them, what Mr Macfarland calls the “ rose reaction.” The languages in which the ; ise is always a rose are English, French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Swedish, Dutch, and Bohemian. Of 497 roses originated in America since the days of George Washington barely one hundred are yet in commerce, and while 140 roses were introduced in all the world last year, but five were of American origin. .«
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1682, 5 November 1925, Page 6
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