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Show comes up
roses
By Alexandria Sullivan
Daily Forty-Niner
Queen Elizabeth,
Summer Fashion and Angel Face were the guests of honor along
with dozens of other species of roses at the eighth annual
Rose Show at the physics department Tuesday afternoon.
Roses became a
common sight at the physics department when Chairman Bruce
Scott began bringing in roses for the department's receptionist.
Irene Howard, coordinator of the show, said Scott taught others
how to love roses.
The College of
Natural Sciences began to display their roses once a year,
but then the show became open to everyone on campus three
years later.
The show is mainly
for people who wish to enjoy the smell and beauty of a rose,
said Judy Anderson, who retired last year as a receptionist
at the physics and astronomy department.
"It is just
a perfect flower," said Anderson.
"There are
so many different varieties and different techniques to take
care of roses," said Nina Bao, a part-time Cal State
Long Beach chemistry lecturer. She said she likes to learn
the names and smells of the flowers because it helps her choose
which one she would like to plant. She also explained the
attraction of a rose.
"The color,
the elegance and the smell," Bao said. "I love to
garden."
Each participant
displayed the roses they have grown and later that day a raffle
determines who wins a rose bush donated by a local nursery.
More than 200 participants have competed in the event in the
last eight years, Howard said.
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Alexandria
Sullivan/Daily Forty-Niner
Josephine
Ngyuen, left, and Nina Bao stop and smell the roses.
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