THE WINTER WINDOW GARDEN IO5 



I know one florist who had a pair of plants, 

 each of which was about one and one-half to 

 two feet in diameter, which he sold for 

 twenty-five dollars apiece. 



EASTER LILIES 



Easter is the great fl.oral festival of the year 

 and no other holiday is so intimately con- 

 nected with flowers. 



The favourite colour at Easter is white, 

 just as red is the dominant colour for Christ- 

 mas flowers. Red stands for warmth and 

 happiness in the dead of winter; white stands 

 for purity and for the Resurrection. 



The most appropriate flower for Easter is 

 unquestionably the lily, because it has been 

 associated for the longest time with Easter. 

 The Easter lily of to-day is not the lily of 

 history and of religious painting. It was 

 not until the early eighties that the Madonna 

 or Annunciation lily was displaced as an 

 Easter flower by the Bermuda lily. The 

 Madonna lily does not bloom outdoors in the 

 northern United States at Easter time, as 

 it does in southern Europe, and it is not so 

 easily forced into bloom as is the Bermuda 

 lily. Moreover, the Bermuda lily is generally 



