Americans buy about 4 billion cut stems a year, amounting to 10million flowers every day about 88 percent of the several billion cut flowers imported to the United States arrive by air at the Miami airport enroute to their final destinations. Additional air-cargo shipments of fresh flowers are handled at Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, and New York airports, but not nearly as many as the flower hub that is Miami.. . . page 155
The biggest flower-giving day in United States is Valentine’s Day (Mother’s Day is a distant second). A staggering 224 million roses were grown, mostly in South America, for Valentine’s Day in 2013.. . . . . Page 159
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The biggest flower-giving day in United States is Valentine’s Day (Mother’s Day is a distant second). A staggering 224 million roses were grown, mostly in South America, for Valentine’s Day in 2013.. . . . . Page 159
Excerpt "THE REASON FOR FLOWERS"