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The rose is
one of the most celebrated flowers ever. There are poems written about
it, songs sung about it, girls named after it and clichés quoted
using it. The rose. A flower of elegant beauty that has a thorny stem
that can draw blood in a second. There is much written about the rose,
and the Internet is a wonderful place to read about it.
There is a Lutheran church in Manheim,
Pennsylvania that has an annual rose festival the second
Sunday in June. In 1766 Henry William Stiegel, who was later know
as Baron Von Stiegel, gave the Manheim Lutherans a plot of land
to build a church on. His only requirement was that a payment of
one red rose would be made annually, thus the Festival of the Red
Rose was born. Descendents of Stiegel's continue to travel to Manheim
each year for the legal ceremony of the payment of the rose. Stories
like this one can be found online, where the rose is a much researched
subject.
You can also shop online for rose bushes,
rose accessories, rose scented bath products and other rose related
items.
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