“Ages ago the rose was but a simple flower in a primal 
world. Then some man admired it and set a plant near 
the entrance of his cave. He cared for it, nourished it and 
cultivated it; and the more he cultivated it, the more 
beautiful it grew—and out of his love and care for the 
rose, man began to learn the science of rose culture. The 
more men used the science of rose culture they knew, the 
more they learned of that same science, and all the while Aa 
the rose grew more beautiful. Comparing the rose of five 
thousand years ago with that of today, who can describe 
the roses of two thousand years hence. a the 
“All of this 1s but the symbol and pledge of what 
miracles can come into the life of each of us when we 
cultivate our lives as intelligently and faithfully by the 
love and will of God as we grow roses In obedience to the CSE 
laws of Nature. This ts the Parable of the Rose—a parable 
God repeats ten thousand times through the whole world 
that we may never overlook it, nor for a day forget it. 
Everything a rose will ever need for absolute perfection, 
God has provided in air, earth and possible nurture, and 
God put somewhere into the seed the possibility of its 
becoming. So God sets in our world the simple beauty of 
the wild rose and the glory of the cultivated rose, that 
we may come to realize that our own souls, and our own 
lives are designed for equal transformation. As we work 
among our roses, let us never rest content until we know 
in our own selves some such transformation as that of the 
’”3 
rose. 
—The Rev. Milton S. Kanaga, Vicar, St. Hubert’s 
Chapel, Kirtland Hills, Ohto, m American Rose Annual, 
1951. 
Beautiful, Fragrant 
Easy-to-Grow 
Old Rose, 
Paul Neyron 
