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The World’s Oldest Rose Bush

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 10, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 22.

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The World’s Oldest Rose Bush

It is said that the oldest rose bush in the world of which there is authentic record, grows in a church-yard, and against the old church at Heldersheim, Germany. Eight hundred years ago, so the records say, Bishop Hepilo caused a trellis to be built on which it was supported. To-day the main stem is thicker than a man's body.