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"It 'was roses, roses all the way." – Robert Browning, roman god apollo, "What's in a name? What we call a rose by another name would smell as sweet." – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2 nude scene Roses have a long and eventful history. According to fossil evidence, rose 35 million years. Today there are over 30,000 varieties of roses and has the most complicated family tree of all known plant species. The cultivation of roses most likely began in Asia around 5000 years ago.

You have a part of human experience, and then called the flower are woven many stories of the Old World. And there are these wonderful stories, roses over time we can detect all inclusive. Greek mythology tells us that Aphrodite, the rose which gave its name was, but it was the goddess of flowers, Chloris, who created it. One day, roman god apollo, while Chloris in the clearing, he found the lifeless body of a beautiful daughter. To right this wrong Chloris enlisted the help of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, who gave her beauty, then called Dionysus, the god of wine, the nectar that smells sweet.

If it was the turn of the three Graces gave Chloris charm, brightness and joy. Then Zephyr, the west wind blew away, roman god apollo, the clouds so that Apollo, the sun god, could shine and the flowers. And so it was pink … In another story, an ancient Hindu legend, Brahma (the creator of the world) and Vishnu (the preserver of the world) argued that the lotus was more beautiful, roman god apollo, than the rose. Vishnu backed the rose, while Brahma supports Lotus. But Brahma had never had before when he rose and immediately withdrawn.

As a reward Brahma created a bride for Vishnu and called her Lakshmi, was used by 108 large and 1008 small, roman god apollo, rose petals. Several thousand years later, around the world in Crete, there are fresh, c. Date 1700BC illustrating a five-pedaled pink flowers pink. Discoveries of tombs, roman god apollo, in Egypt have revealed wreaths, roses between them. The wreath at the tomb of Hawara (discovered by English archaeologist William Flinders Petrie), dated around 170 AD and is the oldest surviving witness to a kind of pink still alive.

Roses later became the worst excesses of the Roman Empire when the peasants were reduced to a synonym for growing roses instead of food crops to meet the needs of their rulers. The emperor gathered his pools and fountains with rose water and sat on carpets of rose petals for their feasts and orgies. The roses were like confetti on holiday for medical purposes and used as a source of perfume. Heliogabalus enjoyed showering his guests with rose petals falling from the ceiling during the festivities.

During the fifteenth century, the factions fighting for control of 'England used the rose as a symbol. The white rose represented York and the red rose symbolized Lancaster. Not surprisingly,, roman god apollo, the conflict between these groups as the war of the roses were not disclosed. In the seventeenth century roses were sought so that the roses and rose water were considered legal tender. In this, roman god apollo, capacity, were used as barter in the markets, and all payments made by ordinary people had to royalty.

Napoleon's wife Josephine loved roses so well established an extensive collection of Chateau de Malmaison, an estate seven miles west of Paris. This park of over 250 varieties of roses was the setting for the work of Pierre Joseph Redoute botanical illustrator and it was here as Redoute completed his watercolor, roman god apollo, collection "Les Roses", which is still considered one of the best records of botanical illustration. cultivated roses were not introduced in Europe in the late eighteenth century.

These introductions came from China and I repeat trousers, which are of great interest to farmers who no longer had to wait once a year for their roses to bloom. From this introduction, experts today tend to divide all roses in two groups. They are "old roses" (growing in Europe before 1800) and "modern roses" (those who began to be cultivated at the turn of the 19th century in England, roman god apollo, and France). Until the early 19th century, all roses, roman god apollo, in Europe were pink or white.

Our romantic symbol of the red rose for the first time in China around 1800. Unusual green roses arrived a few decades later. Bright yellow roses in a range of about 1900. It 'was the Frenchman Joseph Permet shower, who is credited with the discovery. After more than 20 years of breeding roses in search of a variety resistant to yellow that luck changes when one day he simply stumbled across a mutant yellow flower in a field.