PRESERVING ROSE FRAGRANCE i6i 



"Freshly gathered rose-petals are beaten into a pulp and 

 then dried, but before becoming completely dry, rose-water is 

 added and they are again beaten and dried, the operation being 

 repeated till the pulp has become very smooth. Then the de- 

 sired shape is given and they are perforated in order to thread 

 them, and so a kind of bead is formed, which is dried. When 

 they have become very hard, they are smoothed and pohshed, 

 after which they are rubbed with oil-of-roses in order to give 

 them more perfume and gloss. If a brass mortar be used, the 

 pulp takes a deep black color, through the action on the metal 

 of the gallic acid contained in the roses. On the other hand, if 

 a marble mortar be used, blue and red and other colored beads 

 can be manufactured, according to the coloring materials 

 employed. The black beads are most highly prized. They have 

 been manufactured principally at Adrianople, Smyrna, and 

 Constantinople." 



The Red Rose Church at Manheim 



We know of no more unique ceremony in America than 

 Manheim's "Feast of Roses." In 1730, Baron Heinrich Wilhelm 

 Stiegel, coming from Germany, settled in Lancaster County, 

 Pennsylvania, and founded the little town of Manheim. He 

 prospered in business and later deeded to the Lutheran con- 

 gregation (which he organized in 1769) a plot of ground for 

 the erection of a house of worship with the following stipulation : 

 ''yielding and paying therefor at the said town oj Manheim, in 

 the month of June, yearly forever after, the rent of ONE RED 

 ROSE, if the same shall be lawfully demanded.'' 



And now each year, with appropriate exercises, the congre- 

 gation of the Manheim Lutheran Church pays to the heirs of 

 Baron Stiegel the unique ground-rent of "one red rose," and 

 each year recalls the memory of a man who, though "dying in 

 poverty, had yet left the noblest of all memorials, the love, 

 reverence, and gratitude of a community whose industry he 

 had stimulated, whose ideals he had fostered, for whose spiritual 

 welfare he had made permanent provision." (Published with 

 the permission of Rev. A. E. Cooper, who was pastor of the 

 Red Rose Church when this statement was first issued.) 



