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Rose Plant History If you look at both fossil and archaeological evidence, it becomes immediately evident that rose plants and the human race go way back. In fact, they seem to go back together, all the way to the beginning of recorded history. Look where there are human beings, and you find that the roses are already there. In fact, long before there was any kind of flower gardening of cultivated roses, the plants existed in the wild. Their beauty has captured human imagination since time immemorial. Roses certainly entered the myths of the world quite early on. Different types of roses have figured even in Hindu myths, where the rose occasionally rivals the more usual lotus flower. In Greek mythology, Chloris, the goddess of flowers, was said to have created the rose by turning a dead nymph into a flower and inviting all the gods to bestow gifts of beauty upon her. Rose plants came from a different source in Roman mythology, however. When the suitors of a young woman named Rodanthe became violent, the goddess Diana turned the woman into a rose, with the suitors as her thorns. The world may owe the art of rose cultivation to the ancient Chinese, since the people of that region were cultivating rose plants about five thousand years ago. A millennium or two later, the Egyptians became aware of roses and began to make wreaths that incorporated these flowers. Remnants of such wreaths have actually been discovered buried in Egyptian tombs. The people of Crete, during the Bronze Age, represented their flower gardening in frescoes on the walls of their homes, and once again roses are featured in the paintings. People in European nations regard rose plants almost matter-of-factly, as an ordinary fact of life. But for several centuries, the plants seemed to have been forgotten, until the knights of the Crusades brought them back from the lands in which they had fought. Then the countries of Europe seemed to make up for lost time, adopting roses as the symbols of royal houses, and learning rose gardening with such enthusiasm that occasionally roses functioned as legal currency. Things have settled down since then, and roses have become as much beloved by ordinary people as they have often been by the aristocracy. As companions through history, human beings and roses have had a long, eventful partnership. If you have always wanted to have a rose garden but did not know how to grow one, Rose Gardens: Click Here!
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