THE ROSE.

Since man first learned to write down his thoughts he has, in prose and poetry, praised the rose. The Persians, the Chinese, the Greeks with Theophrastus and Sappho, who was the forst to describe the rose as the Queen of flowers, and the Romans with Pliny the Elder and Martial, released a river of admiration which since those days has never ceased to flow. As a result there are examples that can be taken from any period you care to name ,i.e. Chaucer of the 15th Century with these lines...."Next the foule nettle, rough and thikke, The rose wazeth swote, and smothe and soft". Surely that says it for all time.