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<body> <a href="http://www.rosefarm.com">Rose Farm</a><ul><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=32089>THE ORIGINS OF CULTIVATED ROSES</a><br><p>Roses boast an Ancient Lineage, by Charlie Farricielli from <a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com"><strong>Rose Farm</strong></a> Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct  </p> <p>It has been estimated that 150 million plants are purchased by gardeners worldwide every year, and sophisticated breeding programs have produced a plant that dominates the world’s cut flower market; the annual crop is calculated in tons. Roses have also made a tremendous contribution to the perfume industry. </p> <p><strong><em>Roses boast an ancient lineage</em></strong>, and they are intricately entwined in our history and culture. </p> <p>As a motif, the rose has been and still is depicted in many national emblems. It has been adopted by countless political factions, and even by businesses and several international events. </p> <p><strong><font size="3">THE ORIGINS OF CULTIVATED ROSES</font></strong> <br /> Rose’s species have a natural distribution through out most parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Paleontologists inform us that they become established in the Tertiary Period, which began 70 million years ago. This means that the ancestors of the rose predate the evolution of humans </p> <p>Europe and the Middle East - The Dawn of Rose Breeding </p> <p>Well before the Christian Era, the transportation of useful plants had played an essential part in the expansion of civilizations. The sprawling Roman Empire together with the excursions of Alexander the Great in Asia introduced many species never seen before in the Middle East and Europe . The dog rose ( Rosa canina), for example, was long thought to be a native of Britain , but was in fact brought there by the Romans. </p> <p>By about AD 1200 the first five groups of domesticated roses had already begun to evolve in cultivation: Albas, Centifolias, Damasks, Gallicas and Scots Roses. </p> <p>The Far East - the Birthplace of the Modern Garden Rose </p> <p>Although rose growing enjoured high popularity in the gardens of Europe for many hundreds of years, it was not until the end of the eighteenth century, with the discovery of R. chinensis in China , that a major step forward was achieved. The revolutionary characteristic of this rose is its ability to flower repeatedly from early summer to late autumn. </p> <p>Some commentators have used the term ‘perpetual flowering’ but this can be misinterpreted and used too literally. ‘Parson’s Pink China’, ‘Slater’s Crimson China’’, Hume’s Blush Tea-scented China’ and Parks’ Yellow Tea-scented China’ – the first cultivated varieties – opened up a new vista of roses with a modern classical shape, a true crimson color with a very pale hint of the early yellows and a repeat –flowering performance. The Far East became the birthplace of the Modern Garden Rose, and the rest is history. </p> <p>Next Time East Meets West: You might want to try conveying your message of love by a beautiful, fragrant bouquet of roses. Watch for more tips from <a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com"><strong>Rose Farm</strong></a> Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct. <a href="http://gifthorse-online.com/links.php?cat=171&user=tmillar">More Links</a> for Rose Farm > or <a href="http://rosefarmexpress.seo9.net/rosesroses.htm">Visit Here</a></p> <p>Keywords: flowers, Roses, flower delivery, send roses, send flowers, yellow roses</p><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/32089"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=32029>It was Roses, Roses all the way </a><br><p>Roses in half-bloom Smell Best, by Charlie Farricielli from <a href="http://www.rosefarm.com"><strong>Rose Farm</strong></a> Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct  </p> <p><font size="3"><em><strong>It was roses, roses all the way.” - Robert Browning </strong></em></font></p> <p>“What's in a name? That which we call a rose; By any other name would smell as sweet.”  - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2 </p> <p>Roses have a long and colorful history. According to fossil evidence, the rose is 35 million years old. Today, there are over 30,000 varieties of roses and it has the most complicated family tree of any known flower species. </p> <p>The cultivation of roses most likely began in Asia around 5000 years ago. They have been part of the human experience ever since and mentions of the flower are woven into a great many tales from the ancient world. </p> <p>And there are so many beautiful stories that include roses through out the ages that we all can recognize. </p> <p>Greek mythology tells us that it was Aphrodite who gave the rose its name, but it was the goddess of flowers, Chloris, who created it. One day while Chloris was cleaning in the forest she found the lifeless body of a beautiful nymph. To right this wrong Chloris enlisted the help of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, who gave her beauty; then called upon Dionysus, the god of wine, who added nectar to give her a sweet scent. When it was their turn the three Graces gave Chloris charm, brightness and joy. Then Zephyr, the West Wind, blew away the clouds so that Apollo, the sun god, could shine and make the flower bloom. And so the Rose was... </p> <p>In another story, an ancient Hindu legend, Brahma (the creator of the world) and Vishnu (the protector of the world) argued over whether the lotus was more beautiful than the rose. Vishnu backed the rose, while Brahma supported the lotus. But Brahma had never seen a rose before and when he did he immediately recanted. As a reward Brahma created a bride for Vishnu and called her Lakshmi — she was created from 108 large and 1008 small rose petals. Several thousands of years later, on the other side of the world in Crete , there are Frescoes which date to c. 1700BC illustrating a rose with five-pedaled pink blooms. Discoveries of tombs in Egypt have revealed wreaths made with flowers, with roses among them. The wreath in the tomb of Hawara (discovered by the English archaeologist William Flinders Petrie) dates to about AD 170, and represents the oldest preserved record of a rose species still living. Roses later became synonymous with the worst excesses of the Roman Empire when the peasants were reduced to growing roses instead of food crops in order to satisfy the demands of their rulers. The emperors filled their swimming baths and fountains with rose-water and sat on carpets of rose petals for their feasts and orgies. Roses were used as confetti at celebrations, for medicinal purposes, and as a source of perfume. Heliogabalus used to enjoy showering his guests with rose petals which tumbled down from the ceiling during the festivities. </p> <p>During the fifteenth century, the factions fighting to control England used the rose as a symbol. The white rose represented York , and the red rose symbolized Lancaster . Not surprisingly, the conflict between these factions became known as the War of the Roses. </p> <p>In the seventeenth century roses were in such high demand that roses and rose water were considered as legal tender. In this capacity they were used as barter in the markets as well as for any payments the common people had to make to royalty. </p> <p>Napoleon's wife Josephine loved roses so much she established an extensive collection at Chateau de Malmaison, an estate seven miles west of Paris . This garden of more than 250 rose varieties became the setting for Pierre Joseph Redoute's work as a botanical illustrator and it was here Redoute completed his watercolor collection "Les Rose," which is still considered one of the inest records of botanical illustration. </p> <p>Cultivated roses weren’t introduced into Europe until the late eighteenth century. These introductions came from China and were repeat bloomers, making them of great interest to hybridizers who no longer had to wait once a year for their roses to bloom. </p> <p>From this introduction, experts today tend to divide all roses into two groups. There are “old roses” (those cultivated in Europe before 1800) and “modern roses” (those which began to be cultivated in England and France around the turn of the 19th century). </p> <p>Until the beginning of the 19th century, all roses in Europe were shades of pink or white. Our romantic symbol of the red rose first came from China around 1800. Unusual green roses arrived a few decades later. </p> <p>Bright yellow roses entered the palette around 1900. It was the Frenchman Joseph Permet-Ducher who is credited with the discovery. After more than 20 years of breeding roses in a search for a hardy yellow variety, he luck changed when one day he simply stumbled across a mutant yellow flower in a field. We have had yellow and orange roses ever since </p> <p>The rose is a phenomenal plant and is rightly known as ‘the world’s favorite flower’. No other flower has ever experienced the same popularity that the rose has enjoyed in the last fifth years. In temperate climates, roses are more widely grown than any other ornamental plant, and as cut flowers they are forever in fashion. </p> <p>You might want to try conveying your message of love by a beautiful, fragrant bouquet of roses. Watch for more tips from <a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com"><strong>Rose Farm</strong></a> Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct.  More Links from <a href="http://telecom2k.net/links.php?cat=294&user=dougjohn">Rose Farm></a></p> <p>Keywords: flowers, Roses, flower delivery, send roses, send flowers, yellow roses</p><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/32029"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=31824>Roses in half-bloom Smell Best</a><br><p><strong>Roses in half-bloom Smell Best, by Charlie Farricielli from <a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com">Rose Farm</a> Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct  </strong></p> <p>Researchers involved in fragrance research divided the rose flower into four stages - budding, early half-bloom, late half-bloom and full bloom - and made qualitative and quantitative analyses of the aromatic content at each growth stage. Taking three petals from each flower, they studied when the fragrance became the strongest.</p> <p>The result was that the buds contain a high level of Dimethoxymethylbenzene, so the freshness of the green note is emphasized. For the first few minutes of the stage of early half-bloom, sweetness and freshness harmonize to produce an exquisite scent. But in the stage of late half-bloom, when the flower is considered most beautiful, the fragrance level was found to already be on the decline. Now we know that the fragrance of the rose is at its peak in the stage of early half-bloom.</p> <p><strong><font size="3">The Unattainable Blue Rose</font></strong></p> <p>The characteristic fragrance of the rose is gorgeous and enticingly deep at once, and its shapely flower is just as charming. The ideal rose is supposed to have a "high center and pointed flower petals." Although many colors - red, white, yellow - were developed in the course of history, "Blue" remains close to impossible.</p> <p>This is why "Blue Rose" means something unattainable. The Meilland family of France who are distinguished breeders attained this goal by the breeding of a blue rose named "Charles De Gaulle". Its fragrance could be described as a sophisticated mixture of the sweet Damask modern scent and a soft tea-like scent of tea roses. But the color of the flower itself is more like violet than blue.</p> <p><strong><font size="3">Hybridizing to make roses more beautiful, more fragrant</font></strong></p> <p>The rose that was brought into Europe from Asia quickly spread throughout the continent as a symbol of luxury. Then in 1810, when the Chinese Tea Rose was shipped into England by the East Indian Company, revolutionary changes took place. Europeans were now able to enjoy a perpetual blooming of roses. People enthusiastically welcomed the four-season blooming of the Tea Rose. Tea roses were named so because they had a tea-like scent. Hybrid tea roses (HT) were produced by crossing pre-existent hybrids with tea roses. The first pink hybrid tea rose named "La France" was bred by Guillot and his son Pierre who were horticulturists of Lyon. Having witnessed the success of HTs, the breeders went on to realize their next dream that was to produce a yellow rose.</p> <p>In the year 1900, another French breeder Pernet-Ducher finally came up with the "Soleil d'Or", whose deep yellow color, gracious form, pleasant scent, many buds and long-lasting bloom were highly acclaimed as the Queen of Roses.</p> <p><strong><font size="3">Rose as a symbol of beauty, love and purity</font></strong></p> <p>The rose became a witness to love stories all over the world, as the custom developed for the bride to hold a rose bouquet that symbolizes beauty, love and purity. In the Tirol of Austria, the bridegroom offers roses to the bride. In France, on the morning of the wedding, the bride throws rose petals into a pond or a stream as a symbolic act of farewell to maiden life.</p> <p>As seen here, the rose symbolizes "love" and generally conveys graceful beauty, but the yellow rose symbolizes "jealousy" which is perhaps due to its characteristic stimulating green scent.</p> <p>Damask rose that symbolizes "contrasting beauty" has a rich and gorgeous scent. China rose that symbolizes "perpetually renewed beauty" has a refined scent of green violet. Japanese wild rose that symbolizes "recovery from agony" has a refreshingly sweet, powdery scent that is said to even cure the pains of unrequited love.</p> <p>You might want to try conveying your message of love by a beautiful, fragrant bouquet of roses. Watch for more tips <strong>from <a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com">Rose Farm</a> Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct</strong> </p> <p>Keywords: flowers, Roses, flower delivery, send roses, send flowers, yellow roses</p> <p> </p> <p> </p><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/31824"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=31778>Romancing with Roses (Part 2)</a><br><p>Romancing with Roses (Part 2) By, Charlie Farricielli from <a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com"><strong>Rose Farm Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct</strong></a>  <br />  <br /> Roses have been my life! I have lived on the farms in Venezuela, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. I have resided and labored along side the farm workers, helping them with their everyday under-paid chores as they cultivated the most beautiful “gift of God” on the planet! <br />  <br /> An aroma created only in Heaven, stunningly filled the crisp mountain air each morning in the stunning peak surrounded town of Valencia. Ah! Valencia is a sheltered suburb of Venezuela overflowing with miles and miles of orange groves and rose farms. A profound region with the savor of sweet scented and fragrant like aromatic sensations that bestowed one with such profound internal emotions of well being! <br />  <br /> The <strong><a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com">Rose Farm</a></strong> spectacularly displayed row after glorious row of rose shrubbery brimming with color and embellishment of each vibrant living plant. I still remember every detail of those wonderful educational and inspiring days.</p> <p>Roses are my passion, my love my life. I wanted to learn and explore their growing habits, the hybridizing methods, the growing environment, and most important to discover the travel desires from farm to consumer!<br />  <br /> Returning home to America after months of travel and exploration was going to be a profound expieriance for me. I would get to enjoy the reaction from customers while executing this retail and wholesale marketing system and anticipate the delighted response from patrons that my collections are best products I could unearth for our unsuspecting trade consumers.<br />  <br /> My plan was to have our customers value the best roses at the best price! Once again, I would selfishly enjoy their delighted reactions to my thrilling discoveries. I loved the feeling of “blowing a customers mind”! Fresh roses last so long, also emulate considerably more aroma, are crisper and more vibrant in color. <br />  <br /> My inspiration worked! I sold the beautiful roses for $9.95 a dozen. With in months the word had spread! Customers would travel miles to get the quality and lower priced roses. At that time in 1982 the florists were getting a” rip-off” price of $70.00- $100.00 per dozen! </p> <p>Needless to say the local florists were pretty irritated at our marketing plan. Marketing plan? No. I simply sought to show the  people of our area who never could afford to buy roses currently could now effortlessly purchase fresh cut long lasting, long stemmed roses every week. They could now afford to show their love to those around them. I also educated our customers and allowed them to comprehend they had been swindled too long by local and national florists! <br />  <br /> The days were wonderful when lines of people gathered at Valentines Day, Mothers Day, everyday now became a rose holiday! </p> <p><br /> <strong><a target="lieberman.senate.gov/" href="http://lieberman.senate.gov/">Senator Lieberman</a></strong> when at home in CT. would become a frequent customer and purchase a dozen for his beautiful wife Hadassah! <strong><em>I always used to tell him “Senator you will be president some day”! He laughed! <br /> </em></strong> <br /> <strong><font size="3">So let’s talk about another romancing idea. </font></strong></p> <p>A great way to give roses is to the woman in your life is to “send them to the office or work place”! </p> <p>Why?</p> <p>Well, when a girl receives roses at work, the romantic magic of the roses will now spread through the office like wildfire! Every one will want to know “who the flowers are from”. </p> <p>Everyone will gather around the recipient and wish they had someone as thoughtful as her sender. The employees’ will want to know what the occasion is. Her friends will have feeling of happiness for her. She will be made so proud in front of the people she spends a lot of her life with. </p> <p><strong><font size="3"><em>You see roses are magical.</em></font></strong> </p> <p>You made her day magic! For that moment she will feel like Cinderella! They will change the entire day of the recipient. She will now have a reminder of YOU the loving thoughtful provider. You! Emotions will magnify because of this simple yet spectacular way to send roses! She will also get remarks from fellow employees how thoughtful you are. You have sent your feelings in a dramatic way! <br />  <br /> One more way to amplify this idea is to send the roses on a Monday or Tuesday the beginning of the work week. This will give her the choice to either leave them there or take them home! <br />  <br /> I have experienced so many wonderful years of believing in the magic of roses. Please try this magical recipe of love and you will be so surprised of how romancing with roses changes lives.<br />  <br /> This is a magical inspiration intended to exploiting the enchantment of fresh roses and love! Roses articulate love! A short story on ways to utilize roses as a vehicle of love! Watch for more tips from <strong><a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com">Rose Farm Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct </a></strong></p> <p>Keywords: flowers, Roses, flower delivery, send roses, send flowers, yellow roses</p> <p> </p><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/31778"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=31737>�Romancing with Roses� </a><br><p>The Rose! Gods gift of nature to His children to offer and illustrate love! By, Charlie Farricielli from <a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com"><strong>Rose Farm Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct <br /> </strong></a> <br /> You know being in the rose and flower business for over 30 years has given me the astonishing opportunity to see and feel the effects that “fresh roses and fresh bouquets” have had on many of our customers friends and family.</p> <p>Roses have changed lives, altered attitudes, apologized, thank you, enhanced romance, demonstrated unconditional love, advanced relationships, spectacularly improved marriages, and repaired negative family relations. You see roses are pure love. </p> <p>Roses are pure positive power, they are unadulterated beauty. Roses are an untainted natural gift from God.</p> <p>I created the slogan in one of our flower commercials that said it all.</p> <p><strong><em><font size="3">“We send Love! We send Feelings!</font></em></strong></p> <p>Yes let me explain that roses are love. They are proof of love. Giving of roses is a feeling; inner self gratification and feeling of love that you have given to someone who you have made feel so extraordinary and loved!</p> <p>You see roses create a feeling of love for you; the giver; and overwhelmingly so for the unsuspecting recipient! It’s been truly amazing through out my 30+ years, how I have witnessed these inconceivable circumstances over and over. It has enhanced my life to a surprising degree as well. I feel so much a part of the enrichment to the life’s of people that I have revealed a way to help them make their lives better with the giving of roses. Roses are magical! </p> <p><strong><em><font size="3">Roses are the Secret of The Ages!</font></em></strong></p> <p>I have so much information to discuss on how to romance with roses that I will begin this part one series of many more to follow and discuss my beliefs and profound breakthroughs! </p> <p>Giving and receiving feelings of love, adornment, and simple caring acts through benevolent of the fresh rose. Also the Miraculous attracting love powers of the Rose, and the effect and influence of the enchanting aromas of the rose. I will write about the secret of a Single rose and how to utilize its science with demonstrating the feeling of love.<br />  <br />  <br /> <strong><em><font size="3">Romancing with Roses ~ "Secret One"<br /> </font></em></strong> <br /> I have discovered one of the best ways to give a dozen of fresh roses to your lover is to SURPRISE HER and give with out a reason and simply give just as a random act of kindness with love!</p> <p><strong>Happy Monday! </strong></p> <p><strong>Thanks for just being you! </strong></p> <p><strong>Just to let you know I will always love you! </strong></p> <p><strong>Thank you for being the mother of our children! </strong></p> <p><strong>These roses are overflowing with the love burning in my heart for you! </strong></p> <p><strong>You are my life! </strong></p> <p><strong>You are all my dreams come true! </strong></p> <p><strong>You are the light of my life!</strong></p> <p>Just say what you feel in your heart for that moment! Expect the adoring recipient to feel it! It doesn’t matter what it is at that moment as long as it is overflowing with your unconditional love in your words! </p> <p>You will never expect the delightful results from this way of showing your love!</p> <p>I promise you it will be magic! The loved beneficiary will respond in ways you have never known! Anything that has love emotionally involved to roses will be magic! <strong><a target="Rose Farm Tip" href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/31669 ">Watch for more tips</a></strong> from <strong><a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com">Rose Farm</a> Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct </strong></p> <p>Keywords: flowers, Roses, flower delivery, send roses, send flowers, yellow roses</p><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/31737"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=31669>Ancient Secret for Rose Petal Beads</a><br><p>Charlie from <strong><a target="Fose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com">Rose Farm</a></strong> says, There is something so beautifully wholesome and rich about this project, taking rose petals and concentrating their loveliness into hand-worked beads. </p> <p>The end result is a fragrant, aromatic and compact set of beads that you can string and use for adornment, prayer or meditation. </p> <p>Rose petal beads would make a dazzlingly romantic gift, as well as a fantastic way to reprocess the petals from roses you receive (it's so sad to see them in the trash). </p> <p><strong><em><font size="3">Simple Clarification</font></em></strong> <br />  <br /> Strings of beads have been used for prayer and meditation for ages, they help to center and focus. Scented objects such as rosaries have also been used in many religions. On feast days, early Christian priests wore garlands of rosebuds or beads made from rose petals, ground and blended with fixatives into an aromatic paste, then rolled into balls and pierced with a needle. It is a lovely idea to make an object to hold during meditation practice, and most people find that it helps to focus. </p> <p>Here is a method inspired by a 18th-century recipe for rose petal beads that will yield lovely, scented beads that are surprisingly hard and durable. You will need nothing more than rose petals (red and fragrant are recommended), water, a saucepan and a needle or hanger, plus string for stringing. </p> <p>1. Gather the roses and chop the petals as finely as you can. Put them in a saucepan and barely cover with water. (If you have a cast iron skillet, the iron will impart a lovely deep hue to the beads.) </p> <p>2. Heat for an hour but do not let it boil. Repeat this for three or four days and if necessary, add more water. It is important to never let the water boil but to warm it up each day over a moderate heat. </p> <p>3. When the petals have reached the consistency of clay, you are ready to start the beads. Place the mixture in a colander or sieve and press out as much water as possible. </p> <p>4. Make the beads by working the pulp with the fingers into balls. When they dry they will shrink by about half, so you can start big. </p> <p>5. When thoroughly well worked and fairly dry, press on to a bodkin (a long needle, or you can use thick wire or a metal hanger) to make holes in the center of each beads. </p> <p>Until they are perfectly dry the beads have to be moved on the bodkin from time to time or they will be difficult to remove without breaking them. When dry, remove and string them. Have fun, give as gift's. Do with your children as a GREAT family craft project.</p> <p>Watch for more tips from <strong><a target="Rose Farm" href="http://www.rosefarm.com">Rose Farm</a> Buy Farm Fresh Grower Direct</strong> </p> <p>keywords: flowers, Roses, flower delivery, send roses, send flowers, yellow roses</p><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/31669"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li></ul> </body>