| 词汇 | yellow rose of texas |
| 词源 | yellow rose of Texas. The yellow rose of Texas, which is part of the state’s folklore and even has a famous song written about it, actually originated in the 1830s on a farm in New York City near the present-day Pennsylvania Station. There a lawyer named George Harrison found it as a seedling growing among other roses on his property and began cultivating it. Settlers soon took the yellow rose west with them, and legend has it that Texans finally claimed it as their own when Mexican gen- eral Santa Anna, the villain of the Alamo, “was distracted by a beautiful woman with yellow roses in her hair.” We have this nice story on the authority of Stephen Scanniello, rosarian of the Crawford Rose Garden in the New York Botanical Garden, who told it to the New York Times (6/19/92). See also blushing thigh of an aroused nymph. |
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