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Facts Of Roses

Here are some of the facts of roses .

Roses are occasionally the basis of design for rose windows, such windows comprising of five or ten segments (the five petals and five sepals of a rose) or multiples thereof; however most Gothic rose windows are more elaborate and were probably based originally on the wheel and other symbolism.

A red rose (often held in a hand) is also a symbol of socialism; it is also uses as a symbol by the British and Irish Labor Parties as well as by the French, Spanish (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party), and Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Sweden, Finnish, Brazilian, Dutch and European socialist parties. This originated from the red rose used as a badge by the marchers in the May 1968 street protests in Paris. White Rose was a World War II non violent resistance group in Germany.

Another facts of roses is that roses are often portrayed by artists. The French artist Pierre-Joseph Redoute produced some of the most detailed paintings of roses.

Henri Fantin-Latour was also a prolific painter of still life, particularly flowers including roses. The Rose “Fantin-Latour” was named after the artist. Other impressionists including Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne have paintings of roses among their works. The first recorded use of Rose as a color name in English was in 1382.The etymology of the name Rose is of course the same as that of the name of the Rose Flower. The name originated from Latin rose, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy.

 Red roses have been a continuous source of inspiration for artists everywhere and thousands of paintings and poems have been written inspired by roses or by a single red rose. It has been said that a single red rose speaks volumes.

Rose Perfume: Perfumes are another of those facts about roses. Perfumes are made from attar of roses or rose oil, which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam distilling the crushed petals of roses. The technique originated in Persia (the word Rose itself is from Persian) then spread through Arabia and India, but nowadays about 70% to 80% of production is in the Rose Valley near Kazanluk in Bulgaria, with some production in Qamsar in Iran and Germany. The Kaaba in Mecca is annually washed by the Iranian rose water from Qamsar. Bulgaria, Iran and Germany, damask roses are used. In the French oil industry Rosa centifolia is used. The oil, pale yellow or yellow-grey in color, is sometimes called “Rose Absolute” oil to distinguish it from diluted versions. The weight of oil extracted is about one three-thousandth to one six-thousandth of the weight gram of oil.

Individuals

Some rose growers are known for their particular contributions to the rose. These include:

David Austin (“English” roses)

Josephine de Beauharnais

Griffith Buck, professor of horticulture at Iowa State University from 1948 to 1985, hybridized nearly 90 rose varieties. Buck roses are known for disease resistance and winter hardiness.

Conrad-Pyle Co. (Star Roses), Jules Gravereaux, Meilland family, Jean Pernet, pere, Joseph Pernet-Ducher and Suzuki Seizo.

Rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of wild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally prickly shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2-5 meters tall, occasionally reaching as high as 20 meters by climbing over other plants.

 Rose Capital of America

Tyler, Texas has been nicknamed the “Rose Capital of America” because of its large role in the rose-growing industry; about 20% of commercial rose bushes produced in the U.S. are grown in Tyler and Smith County and more than half of the rose bushes are packaged and shipped from this area. It hosts the nation’s largest rose gardens and hosts the Texas Rose Festival each October, which draws more than 100,000 spectators.

Rose Thorns

While the sharp objects along a rose stem are commonly called "thorns", they are actually prickles — outgrowths of the epidermis (the outer layer of tissue of the stem). True thorns, as produced by e.g. Citrus or Pyracantha are modified stems, which always originate at a node and which have nodes and internodes along the length of the thorn itself. Rose prickles are typically sickle-shaped hooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as Rosa rugosaand R. pimpinellifoliahave densely packed straight spines, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots (both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes ). Despite the presence of prickles, roses are frequently browsed by deer. A few species of roses only have vestigial prickles that have no points.

These are just some of the facts of roses.

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