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| Days Inn Elkins | | The most popular rose holidays in the U.S. | | Good taste is the flower of good sense. |
| Econo Lodge Elkins | | are Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and | | |
| Super8 Motels Elkins | | Christmas. | | I hope that while so many people are out |
| | | | | smelling the flowers, someone is taking the |
| | | There are nearly 900 acres of greenhouse | | time to plant some. |
| | | dedicated to the production of fresh-cut | | |
| | | roses in the U.S. One acre of greenhouse | | Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing |
| | | rose production in the U.S. is valued at about | | people together, drawing them from their |
| | | one million dollars, which includes the value | | homes. |
| | | of the plants, greenhouse structure and land. | | |
| | | | | Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it |
| | | Columbus discovered America because of a | | takes time - we haven't time - and to see |
| | | rose! It is written that on October 11, 1492, | | takes time, like to have a friend takes time. |
| | | while becalmed in the Sargasso Sea, one of | | |
| | | the crewmen picked a rose branch from the | | God gave us memory that we might have |
| | | water. This sign of land renewed their hope | | roses in December. |
| | | for survival and gave the seafarers the | | |
| | | courage to continue on to the New World. | | Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and |
| | | | | calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. |
| | | Coral roses imply desire. | | |
| | | | | The fragrance always remains in the hand |
| | | Deep red roses imply unconscious beauty. | | that gives the rose. |
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| | | George Washington, our first President, was | | What's in a name? That which we call a rose |
| | | also our first U.S. rose breeder. | | By any other name would smell as sweet. |
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| | | The oldest fossilized imprint of the rose was | | Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. |
| | | left on a slate deposit found in Florissant, | | One must have sunshine, freedom, and a |
| | | Colorado. It is estimated to be 35 million | | little flower. |
| | | years old. | | |
| | | | | Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we |
| | | Bridal white means happy love. | | cannot flower and grow without it. |
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| | | Three separate nationally conducted public | | Flowers are the sweetest things God ever |
| | | opinion polls, dating from 1975-1986, found | | made and forgot to put a soul into. |
| | | the rose to be the number-one choice of over | | |
| | | 85% of those individuals surveyed. | | |
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