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Wednesday 13 June 2012

Picture Of A Yellow Rose

Picture Of A Yellow Rose Biography

This beautiful yellow rose, contrasting so markedly with the ashen earh around it, was seen in the AIDS Memorial Rose Garden of the Company Gardens of Cape Town, South Africa. These gardens were once founded as vegetable gardens to alleviate the scurvy of the courageous sailors of the Dutch East Indies Trading Company of the seventeenth century. They were firmly established by the first governor of Cape Town, Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677), during his tenure 1652-1662.
At that time yellow roses were as yet unknown to the West where white, pink and red ones were cultivated and loved. Yellow roses were discovered in the Middle East by westerners only in the mid-eighteenth century. As we can see, they quickly migrated to South Africa, too.
First relatively notorious - even someone of my age was as a boy still being warned by his mother not to give yellow roses to a lady because they were said to signify both jealosy and dying love - they have since become symbols of friendship.
Friendship, and, if we are to believe the tales of romantic history: also of patriotism.
Who does not know the Mitch Miller tune 'Yellow Rose of Texas'? It celebrates the courage of one Emily D. West, a 'yellow' (slave) girl from the North who seduced Antonio López de Santa Ana, the Mexican general, on the eve of the Battle of SanJacinto (April 1836). Doing so, she greatly aided Sam Houston in winning the next day in a battle that lasted only 18 minutes. Then the independence of Texas from Mexico was won, and the movement to its statehood in the USA begun.

Picture Of A Yellow Rose