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Seizo Suzuki was a rose breeder who, with his rare talent and incessant efforts, played a leading role in the rosedom of Japan. Due to his leadership that Japan's rosedom has come to enjoy the world-wide reputation it holds today. During his lifetime, he raised as many as 160 new rose varieties, and 30 of them were awarded the ARRS and other prizes at prestigious intenational competitions of new roses the world over, earning him the reputation as a great breeder globally. Heritage roses in Japan He was one of the breeders who recognised early on the importance of species roses and old garden roses as a gene pool for future breeding programmes. He collected about 2,000 such roses in his research institute of the Keisei Rose Nursery. This collection impressed Mr. Peter Harkness so strongly that he wrote in an article he contributed to the RNRS journal The Rose: "For quality of growth and richness of variety I have never seen its like. I could have stayed f...

The Damask rose is one of the oldest rose strains in the world, its virtues lauded since antiquity. Today it is mainly cultivated for its use in perfumes -- and in the Syrian village of Al Marah, the traditions for its cultivation have endured through the centuries. AFP: A total of 200,000 Damask roses, a variety known for its strong fragrance, will be used to create the fountain water, which visitors are free to scoop up and apply to their skin. The International Roses & Gardening Show 2013 will held from May 11-16 at the Seibu Dome in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Admission 2,000. For more information, visit www.bara21.jp (J). Roses are tricky plants. Most of of just know the flowers, and we have no idea about how those gorgeous pink, red, or white blossoms appear. Behind the Scent has more. Half the fun of introducing a new fragrance family into our home fragrance collections is doing the research on the basic elements we combine. In our newest frag...

Maka Hannya Haramita Shingyo The Great Sutra of Profound Essential Wisdom and Beyond The Bodhisattva of true compassion, Through deep practice in Great Wisdom, Understands that the body and the five skandas are only emptiness. And with this understanding, he helps all who suffer. Oh Sariputra, Phenomena is no different than ku, ku no different from phenomena. Phenomena becomes ku, ku becomes phenomena. The five skandas too are only phenomena. Oh Sariputra, All things are ku. There is no birth, no death, No purity, no impurity, No increase, no decrease. This is why in ku there is no form, no skandas, No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. There is no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no thought. There is no knowing, no ignorance, no illusion, no cessation of illusion. No withering, no death, no end to withering and death. There is no beginning to suffering, no end to suffering. There is no knowledge, no profit, no non-profit. Because ...