Rose Garden: You might not expect to find a rose garden listed for a shade garden but one particular variety of the French rose garden (Rosa gallica 'Versicolor') has brightened this corner of our garden for over ten years, sending forth its sweet-smelling white, pink, and red-petalled blossoms every June. Often called the Rosa Mundi, the dried petals of this rose garden were thought to have medicinal value and were used as a flavoring for other medicines in years gone by. Our bush remains small, never topping 3 feet in height, and is hardy here in Zone 5 but only in a protected spot.
Ever since the Middle Ages the pope has, on Laetare Sunday, blessed a golden rose garden which he bestows on some bene¬ficiary. Some Italian writers have declared that the term sub rosa is derived from the fact of consecrated rose gardens being placed over the confes¬sionals at Rome to denote secrecy, the rose garden being a symbol of silence. In legend, Saint Dorothea, who suffered martyrdom under Fabricius, made a convert of Theophilus by sending him some rose gardens from paradise. The rose garden is an attribute of Saints Casilda, Elizabeth of Portugal, rose garden of Lirna, rose garden of Viterbo, Rosalia, and others.See Also Rose Leaves:In heraldry, the rose is blazon of the differ¬ence or brisu-re of the seventh son. The heraldic rose is depicted without leaves or stem and has five petals. The badge of the house of York is a white rose, while that of the house of Lan¬caster, its former rival, was a red rose, and their numerous feudal combats are known in history as the Wars of the Roses. The Tudor rose is the white rose of York and the red rose of Lan¬caster combined. In old England, roses were the popular presents for birthdays, but in classic art a rose figured on a tomb denotes a short life. And with the Romans the graves were strewn with roses, emblematic of death.
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ROSE OF JERICHO, jer'i-ko, or RES¬URRECTION PLANT, rez-u-rek'shun, a small, annual, cruciferous plant (Anastatica hierochuntica) which grows in desert regions from Syria through Saudi Arabia and in northern Africa as far west as Algeria. It bears minute white flowers succeeded by tiny pods containing a few seeds. When the seeds are ripe the leaves fall off, the branches curl inward and interlace, enclosing the pods still holding their seeds, and become dry and rigid, causing the plant to assume the form of a ball, easily uprooted and blown about by winds during the dry season.
In the wild, katydid feeds on variety of plant leaves; rose leaves always acceptable. Push rose branches with younger leaf growth into soil. Moisten soil to keep plants fresh.In the wild, feeds on youngest and tenderest growth;keep supply of young, tender rose or geranium leaves in cage as soon as eggs hatch. As nymphs grow, give older and larger leaves. Con¬tinue to keep nymphs well supplied with fresh, green food after they are transferred to screen-wire cage.
Throughout United States; especially abundant during summer, when it makes itself conspicuous by its cheery, chirping song
Under old boards, under stones, in cracks in ground, crevices in trees, in dry grass about houses, under outdoor electric lights, and even in houses; on warm spring evenings they are at¬tracted by strong outdoor electric lights and often collect under them in great masses.
On The Other Hand See In¬habitants Rose From:Population Characteristics.—The greatest increase in Rhode Island's population took place between 1900 and 1910, when the number of in¬habitants rose from 428,556 to 542,610, or 26.6 per cent. By contrast the increase in the was only 3.8 per cent. Growth was more thereafter, and between 1950 and 1960, the lation rose by 8.5 per cent, from 791,8' 859,488. At the 1960 census the foreign born bered 84,667, or 9.9 per cent of the total greatest numbers were natives of Canada, . England and Wales, Ireland, Portugal, Po Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, France, tria, and Greece. In 1960 Negroes numt 18,332 and members of other non-white r 2,444.
In heathen mythology the rose was dedi¬cated to Aphrodite and was claimed either to have been created from the blood of Adonis or to have been caused by the sea foam dropping from the newly created Aphrodite bursting into bloom. In mythological evolution the rose be¬came a symbol of Eros, later of the Muses and of the Graces. Dionysus (Bacchus) also had a rose as attribute, hence this flower deco¬rated the guests at banquets. In this context it may be mentioned that the rose has always been the queen of wreath flowers and orna¬mental expression of beauty. In antithesis the rose was a symbol of decay; hence an emblem of death.
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