Fragrant rose blossoms get all the glory, immortalized as they are in songs like Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose,” Bette Midler’s “The Rose,” Lynn Anderson’s “I Never Promised You A Rise Garden,” and Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” to name but a few, and in such works of literature as William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo, Louisa May Alcott’s Rose in Bloom, and William Butler Yeats’ The Secret Rose, but the rose plant offers many treasures beyond those velvety flowers.
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