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| Econo Lodge Parkersburg | | The rose is native to the United States. | | Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we |
| Holiday Inn Parkersburg | | | | cannot flower and grow without it. |
| Red Roof Inns Parkersburg | | George Washington, our first President, was | | |
| | | also our first U.S. rose breeder. | | Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. |
| | | | | One must have sunshine, freedom, and a |
| | | The rose is the state flower selected by | | little flower. |
| | | Georgia, Iowa, New York, North Dakota and | | |
| | | the District of Columbia. | | It matters not what goal you seek Its secret |
| | | | | here reposes: You've got to dig from week to |
| | | The oldest fossilized imprint of the rose was | | week To get Results or Roses. |
| | | left on a slate deposit found in Florissant, | | |
| | | Colorado. It is estimated to be 35 million | | Flowers are the sweetest things God ever |
| | | years old. | | made and forgot to put a soul into. |
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| | | Light pink roses imply grace, gentility and | | Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing |
| | | admiration. | | people together, drawing them from their |
| | | | | homes. |
| | | About 60% of the roses grown in the U.S. | | |
| | | are produced in California. | | Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and |
| | | | | calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. |
| | | Yellow roses today signify joy and gladness; | | |
| | | historically, they meant a decrease of love | | For man, as for flower and beast and bird, |
| | | and infidelity. | | the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, |
| | | | | most perfectly alive. |
| | | Three separate nationally conducted public | | |
| | | opinion polls, dating from 1975-1986, found | | God gave us memory that we might have |
| | | the rose to be the number-one choice of over | | roses in December. |
| | | 85% of those individuals surveyed. | | |
| | | | | I hope that while so many people are out |
| | | The rose is the official National Floral | | smelling the flowers, someone is taking the |
| | | emblem of the United States. This legislation | | time to plant some. |
| | | was signed into law by President Ronald | | |
| | | Reagan on October 7, 1986. | | This bud of love, by summer's ripening |
| | | | | breath, May prove a beauteous flower when |
| | | | | next we meet. |
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