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| Comfort Suites Charleston< | | Funerals: Funerals are an emotional time. It | | What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to |
| Days Inn Charleston | | has been a long tradition to send flowers at | | humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; |
| Embassy Suites Charleston< | | the time of bereavement. White flowers are | | but, scattered along life's pathway, the good |
| Hampton Inn Charleston | | the most common, typically roses or lilies. | | they do is inconceivable. |
| Holiday Inn Charleston | | Pink or yellow roses are also fairly common. | | |
| Holiday Inn Express C | | Consult your local florists for more ideas. | | An idealist is one who, on noticing that a |
| Marriott Charleston | | | | rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes |
| Ramada Charleston | | Three separate nationally conducted public | | that it will also make better soup. |
| Red Roof Inns Charleston | | opinion polls, dating from 1975-1986, found | | |
| Sleep Inns Charleston | | the rose to be the number-one choice of over | | Some people get angry because God put |
| Super8 Motels Charleston | | 85% of those individuals surveyed. | | thorns on roses, while others praise him for |
| | | | | putting roses among thorns. |
| | | There are nearly 900 acres of greenhouse | | |
| | | dedicated to the production of fresh-cut | | What's in a name? That which we call a rose |
| | | roses in the U.S. One acre of greenhouse | | By any other name would smell as sweet. |
| | | rose production in the U.S. is valued at about | | |
| | | one million dollars, which includes the value | | A thorn defends the rose, harming only those |
| | | of the plants, greenhouse structure and land. | | who would steal the blossom. |
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| | | Bridal white means happy love. | | This bud of love, by summer's ripening |
| | | | | breath, May prove a beauteous flower when |
| | | The rose is native to the United States. | | next we meet. |
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| | | George Washington, our first President, was | | Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a |
| | | also our first U.S. rose breeder. | | fragrance as before a storm. When a storm |
| | | | | approaches thee, be as fragrant as a |
| | | Lavender roses mean love at first sight. | | sweet-smelling flower. |
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| | | In 1994, over 1,200,000,000 roses were | | Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. |
| | | purchased by U.S. flower buyers. This works | | |
| | | out to a per capita consumption of 4.67 | | It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make |
| | | roses per person. | | man better be; Or standing long an oak, |
| | | | | three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, |
| | | The rose is the official National Floral | | bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May |
| | | emblem of the United States. This legislation | | Although it fall and die that night, It was the |
| | | was signed into law by President Ronald | | plant of flower and light, In small proportions |
| | | Reagan on October 7, 1986. | | we just beauties see; And in short measures, |
| | | | | life may perfect be. |
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