New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
ALL Buy EASTER FLOWERS.
SUPPLY AT FLORISTS SHOPS EXHAUSTED
STREETS FULL OF BRIGHT BLOSSOMS.

SUPPLY AT FLORISTS SHOPS EXHAUST
STREETS FULL OF BRIGHT BLOSSOMS.
Even the meanest man In town bought flowers
yesterday. All day long messenger boys hurried
through the streets laden with Easter lilies fam
ing azaleas and the bright yellow genesta, which
has achieved such popularity this year People
who could not afford lilies and roses contSnted
themselves with the more modest but equally brill
liant geranum blossoms. From the Flfth-aVe
householder to the East Side tenement house
dweuer every one purchased some blossom in honor
OF the day before Easter.
Never the flower custom. which has become
one OF the chief factors In the Easter celebration
more In evidence The dun skies and the occasional
downpour OF rain which boded i'll for Easter mili-
merry proved encouragement TO the horaI dis
play. All day long the florists shops were hlIed
with eager purchasers. and long before the day
was over all the best of the immense stock OF
flowers had been sold. Along Twenty-elShth-St
where the largest number OF flower stores stu
ated, the sidewalks were covered with the more
brilliant blossoms. Crimson azaleas dainty hya-
cInths and bright clusters OF genesta hanked the
white lilies that occupied the place of honor
Just as the lily was the chief flower of decora-
ton SO the violet the favorite for bouquets.
What Easter dress will not be improved by VioletsE
This years violets unusually good Year by
year the growing of Easter flowers gets 10 be
more successful art and the vioets this year sur
pass in size and fragrance those OF previous ones.
American Beauty roses were the most popular or
Henry, who said, the American Beauty has been
the object Of my admiration during my entire
visit" added to their popularity
There was one familiar face missing In the gal
lery OF noral beauty yesterday, and that was the
Ascension lily Year by year this flower. the origi-
nal and genuine N.Y. has lost favor. and this
year was hardly to be seen. Only a very few no
ticed or mourned the absence OF this forgotten bios
som FIyacinths also received but little notice.
When all the other distinctly Easter flowers haa
gone the florists windows still revealed large num-
hers OF neglected and unsought hyacinths.
The florists admitted that the season had been
unusually successful For weeks they had been
stripping the country for miles. laying tax the
most distant greenhouses and even importing a
few lilies from far Bermuda, but, even after all
this effort, their supply proved Inadequate Long
though they continued hins orders until O'Clock
this morning Whether the fates kind to-day
and send sunshine TO gladden. the hearts OF the
thousands who spent last night anXiOusly won
derng If they might appear to-day In all the fun
glory Of their Easter raiment whether rain
Keeps them indoors with only the glass 10 reflect
their charms yet the Easter flowers will prove a
moi ent factor in the days observation. After all,
nature seems TO have the best OF any display, and
all the poetic and rhetorical descriptions OF
rows toilets win prove insufficient II they fail
award TO the Easter flowers the highest place in
I the days spectacle.