Rose garden
Origins of the rose garden: added passage re Rumi
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==Origins of the rose garden== |
==Origins of the rose garden== |
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[[File:Jules Gravereaux toile.jpg|thumb|left|[[Jules Gravereaux]] in [[Roseraie du Val-de-Marne]], 1900]] |
[[File:Jules Gravereaux toile.jpg|thumb|left|[[Jules Gravereaux]] in [[Roseraie du Val-de-Marne]], 1900]] |
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Of the over 150 species of rose, the Chinese ''[[Rosa chinensis]]'' has contributed most to today's garden roses; it has been bred into garden varieties for about 1,000 years in China, and over 200 in Europe.{{Cite web|url=https://web.extension.illinois.edu/roses/history.cfm|title=The History of Roses – Our Rose Garden – University of Illinois Extension|website=web.extension.illinois.edu}} It is believed that roses were grown in many of the early civilisations in temperate latitudes from at least 5000 years ago. They are known to have been grown in ancient [[Babylon]].{{Cite web|url=https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/in-pictures-kews-rose-garden-in-bloom|title=In pictures: Kew's Rose Garden in bloom | Kew|website=[[Kew Gardens]]}} Paintings of roses have been discovered in Egyptian pyramid tombs from the 14th century BC.{{Cite web|url=https://elmaskincare.com/flowers/r_history.htm|title=History Of The Rose|website=elmaskincare.com}} Records exist of them being grown in [[Chinese garden]]s and [[Greek gardens]] from at least 500 BC.{{cite book |last=Goody |first=Jack |year=1993 |title=The Culture of Flowers |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0521424844 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/cultureofflowers0000good }}{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Graham Stuart |year=2004 |title=The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book |publisher=Frances Lincoln Limited |location=London, England |isbn=0-7112-2397-1}} |
Of the over 150 species of rose, the Chinese ''[[Rosa chinensis]]'' has contributed most to today's garden roses; it has been bred into garden varieties for about 1,000 years in China, and over 200 in Europe.{{Cite web|url=https://web.extension.illinois.edu/roses/history.cfm|title=The History of Roses – Our Rose Garden – University of Illinois Extension|website=web.extension.illinois.edu}} It is believed that roses were grown in many of the early civilisations in temperate latitudes from at least 5000 years ago. They are known to have been grown in ancient [[Babylon]].{{Cite web|url=https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/in-pictures-kews-rose-garden-in-bloom|title=In pictures: Kew's Rose Garden in bloom | Kew|website=[[Kew Gardens]]}} Paintings of roses have been discovered in Egyptian pyramid tombs from the 14th century BC.{{Cite web|url=https://elmaskincare.com/flowers/r_history.htm|title=History Of The Rose|website=elmaskincare.com}} Records exist of them being grown in [[Chinese garden]]s and [[Greek gardens]] from at least 500 BC.{{cite book |last=Goody |first=Jack |year=1993 |title=The Culture of Flowers |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0521424844 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/cultureofflowers0000good }}{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Graham Stuart |year=2004 |title=The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book |publisher=Frances Lincoln Limited |location=London, England |isbn=0-7112-2397-1}} The 13th-century [[Persia]]n [[Sufism|Sufi mystic]] and poet [[Rumi]] spoke of rose gardens in his poetry. |
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Many of the original plant breeders used roses as a starting material as it is a quick way to obtain results. Most of the plants grown in these early gardens are likely to have been species collected from the wild. However, there were large numbers of selected varieties being grown from early times; for instance numerous selections or cultivars of the [[Rosa chinensis|China rose]] were in cultivation in China in the first millennium AD.{{Cite web|url=https://quarryhillbg.org/thehistoryandlegacyofthechinarose.html|title=The History and Legacy of the China Rose|website=[[Quarryhill Botanical Garden]]|first=Howard|last=Higson}} |
Many of the original plant breeders used roses as a starting material as it is a quick way to obtain results. Most of the plants grown in these early gardens are likely to have been species collected from the wild. However, there were large numbers of selected varieties being grown from early times; for instance numerous selections or cultivars of the [[Rosa chinensis|China rose]] were in cultivation in China in the first millennium AD.{{Cite web|url=https://quarryhillbg.org/thehistoryandlegacyofthechinarose.html|title=The History and Legacy of the China Rose|website=[[Quarryhill Botanical Garden]]|first=Howard|last=Higson}} |
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