Fun Facts About Roses

• Confucius had a 600 book library specifically on how to care for roses.

• Shakespear refers to roses over 50 times throughout his writings

• The world oldest living rose is thought to be a 1,000 years old. It flourishes today on the wall of the Hildesheim Cathedral of Germany.

• Why white roses are so special is no mystery - it's a myth. Perhaps it started with the Romans who believed white roses grew where the tears of Venus fell as she mourned the loss of her beloved Adonis. Myth also has it that Venus' son Cupid accidentally shot arrows into the rose garden when a bee stung him, and it was the "sting" of the arrows that caused the roses to grow thorns. And when Venus walked through the garden and pricked her foot on a thorn, it was the droplets of her blood which turned the roses red.

• In Scotland, if a white rose bloomed in autumn it was a token of an early marriage.

• It's said that throwing rose leaves into a burning flame will bring you good luck.

• Napoleon's wife Josephine so adored roses, she grew more than 250 varieties.

• An orange / red variety rose was named after Dolly Parton.

• Recently, archaeologists discovered the fossilized remains of wild roses over 34 million years old. The rose is native to the United States. The oldest fossilized imprint of the rose was left on a slate deposit found in Florissant, Colorado.

• While the rose may bear no fruit, the rose hips (the part left on the plant after a rose is done blooming) contain more Vitamin C than almost any other fruit or vegetable.

• The two factions who wanted to control England were two families, the York’s and the Lancaster’s. The York’s used the symbol of a white rose on their crest and the Lancaster’s used a red rose to mark all of their belongings. When the two families fought bitterly and with much bloodshed over England, this became known as the War of the Roses.

• While no Black Rose yet exists, there are some of such a deep Red color as to suggest Black.

• It takes about 4,000 pounds of rose petals to distill one ounce of attar of rose (essential oil of rose).

• People have loved roses since the beginning of time. It is said that the floors of Cleopatra's palace were carpeted with delicate rose petals, and that the wise.

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