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One
of the best known flowers would have to be the
beautiful rose.
Who doesn't love to get a bunch of long stemmed
roses?
It's believed the rose originated millions
of years ago
and was first discovered by the Chinese.
Plants in early gardens were grown for
medicinal purposes
and the rose was no exception.
Later it became appreciated for its beauty and
fragrance.
The oldest known painting of a rose was around
3500years ago,
but before that, stylised roses appeared on
the floors and mouldings of banquet halls in
Nineveh around 1700BC.
Can you imagine that, 1700BC, and they'd been
around before then,
perhaps even in the Garden of Eden, who knows.
To
date there are over 40,000 types of roses and that
number is growing all the time.
They come in all colours and sizes and have been
called the Queen of the flowers.
The French Empress Josephine, loved roses and
after Napoleon divorced her,
she devoted herself to learning and collecting
them.
Roses
grow quite well where I live and I love my rose
garden.
I don't have a favourite but the one pictured
above is a lovely one.
As a bud its cream with pink just around the edges
of the petals,
It keeps changing colour as it ages until it ends
up pink all over.
How clever is that?
'And
the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.'
John
Boyle O'Reily
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See how the lilies of the field
grow.
They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon, in all his
splendor
Was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field,
that is here today and gone tomorrow,
Will He not much more clothe you?
Trust in the Lord of the Heaven
and the Earth,
the one true God.
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