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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If you mean the Shakespeare & Co-writers version, read Henry VI, Part 1, Act II, Scene IV. It's actually quite dull but symbolic, you know I pick a red rose, you pick a white rose, who's side are you on yer southern softie, go back to yer whippets yer northern monkey etc etc...
The name Wars of the Roses was not used at the time, but has its origins in the badges chosen by the two royal houses, the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York. So the Skaespearian garden scene has the Earls of Somerset, Suffolk, and Warwick; Richard Plantagenet, Vernon, and another Lawyer choosing which side they will take by the colour of rose they pick.
Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,
Lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red
And fall on my side so, against your will.